CONDUCTOR
A conductor and a pianist, Salvatore Percacciolo was invited by the Nationaltheater Mannheim, of which he was appointed Erste Kapellmeister, to conduct Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Jerry Bock’s Anatevka, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, Peter Maxwell Davies’ The lighthouse, Puccini’s Le Villi and Verdi’s Il Trovatore. In 2021, he opened the opera season of Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania with Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia. At the Vollgutlager in Berlin he conducted the world première of Birke Bertelsmeier’s musical installation The world to come with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, production by Tilman Hecker.
In September 2024, he conducted the Heidelberger Sinfoniker, soloists Melanie Diener and Thomas Hampson.
He was conductor of Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana’s Youth Orchestra with which he conducted De Falla’s El Retablo de Maese Pedro with Figli d’Arte Cuticchio at Teatro Politeama Garibaldi.
He conducted Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro Lirico in Cagliari (production by Denis Krief), Don Giovanni at Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Rossini’s La Cenerentola at Teatro Greco in Lecce, Tosca and Madama Butterfly at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, La Bohème at Opera Theatre in Tirana. For the opera season of Teatro Sperimentale in Spoleto he conducted Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia directed by Paolo Rossi, Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, production by Henning Brockhaus.
As an opera conductor, he made his debut with A.S.L.I.C.O Opera Domani conducting Mozart’s La finta semplice, The Magic Flute (revived at Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman), Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole. He received the ‘Carlo Maria Giulini’ prize from Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and was invited by Lorin Maazel as a ‘conductor fellow’ at the Castleton Festival in Virginia, USA. Maazel himself indicated him as his deputy for Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Festival he founded, and also entrusted him with the world première of Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg.
He had previously been assistant conductor in opera productions at the Staatsoper in Münich and Berlin, where he now lives.
He conducted concerts with Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Orchestra Toscanini di Parma, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra of Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester in Berlin, the Philharmonische Camerata of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
He collaborated with soloists Roberto Cominati, Francesco D’Orazio, James Galway, Giovanni Sollima, Uto Ughi. Since 2020, he has also collaborated with the Philharmonische Camerata of the Berliner Philharmoniker as a pianist.
Salvatore Percacciolo worked with several youth ensembles in Italy, Germany, Brazil, and the USA. An advocate of contemporary music, he conducted compositions such as Nicola Campogrande’s Concerto per pubblico e orchestra, Michael Daugherty’s Fire and Blood, Paolo Marzocchi’s Variazioni inverse, Giovanni Ferrauto’s Persistenze di memoria, as well as operas by Gian Francesco Malipiero Sinfonia del mare, Ildebrando Pizzetti Concerto per arpa, Eliodoro Sollima Cantata sacra e profana, Giovanni Sollima Istoria di Sant’Agata.
He was a pupil of Piero Bellugi in Firenze, in 2010 he graduated from ‘Scuola dell’Opera Italiana’ in Bologna with Bruno Bartoletti and Nicola Luisotti, then perfected his studies with Jorma Panula in Finland and Lorin Maazel in the USA. He graduated in piano at Conservatorio ‘A. Corelli’ in Messina, studied composition at Conservatorio ‘A. Scarlatti’ in Palermo, and obtained a Master’s degree in ‘Alta Scuola di Direzione d’Orchestra’ at Conservatorio ‘U. Giordano’ in Foggia.
For NAXOS he recorded a CD with music by Baska, Hidas, Krek and Papandopulo for piccolo flute, soloist Francesco Viola, with the Orchestra of National Theatre in Mannheim.
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