CONDUCTOR
Massimo Raccanelli conducted Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Teatro Comunale di Ferrara in 2023. On the same year he was nominated Artistic Director of the Orchestra Regionale Filarmonia Veneta. Born in Treviso, he graduated in cello at the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto and then attended Mario Brunello, Enrico Bronzi and Antonio Meneses master classes As for orchestral conducting, he received a master’s degree from Bruno Weil at the Hochschule in München.
Solo cello of the Venice Baroque Orchestra conducted by Andrea Marcon, he took part in various tours in Europe, the United States, and Japan; he was assistant to Bruno Weil for the production of Così fan tutte by Mozart at the Schloss Weikersheim in 2011.
He was invited to conduct the Georgisches Kammerorchester (Ingolstadt), Junges Musikpodium Dresden-Venedig Orchestra, Accademia d’Archi Arrigoni, and the Bad Reichenhaller Philharmoniker where he was Principal Guest Conductor from 2013 to 2015. He was Musical Director of the “StOrch” (Studenten Orchester München) from October 2012 to February 2014.
Invited by the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada he conducted Thaikowskij ‘s Symphony n. 5 and Elgar’s Cello Concert with Thomas Demenga as a soloist. He conducted the first performance of Das Große Lächeln by Wilfried Hiller with the Oktopus Ensemble at the Gasteig in München . Later, he conducted La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi at the Baroque Experience with the youth ensemble Baroquipe. As an assistant to Bruno Weil, he was invited to conduct some performances of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland Festival at the Schloss Weikersheim. He conducted the Venice Baroque Orchestra, with Xavier de Maistre as a soloist , at the Grafenegg Festival in Wien and at Stiftkonzerte-Sankt Florian in Linz.
In 2018, he replaced Stefano Montanari at the helm of the Junges Musikpodium Dresden-Venedig at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona, with Mario Brunello as a soloist. With “I Solisti di Radio Veneto Uno” he conducted the Symphony n. 4 by Mendelssohn and the Violin Concert by Brahms. For the 2019/2020 symphonic season of the Teatro Comunale di Treviso he conducted the Symphony n. 5 and the Piano Concert n. 3 by Ludwig Van Beethoven.
As a musical assistant to Thomas Hengelbrock, he was invited for the 2020 production of Così fan tutte at the Festival International d’ Art Lirique d’Aix-en-Provence. In 2022, he was appointed music director of the European project Junges Musikpodium Dresden-Venedig.
