PIETRO BORGONOVO

Italy

Born in Milan, Pietro Borgonovo distinguishes himself in conducting symphonic and opera productions. Highlights include appearances at the Salzburger Festpiele conducting the Klangforum Wien and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Venice Biennale, and the Ravenna Festival. He conducts at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Arena in Verona, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, and major orchestras in Italy, Europe and the United States.

At a very young age, he established himself as an oboe soloist on the world stage. A pupil of Heinz Holliger at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, he has given concerts in the main halls and major international festivals: Teatro alla Scala, Salzburger Festpiele, Biennale di Venezia, Musikverein in Vienna, Festival d’Automne in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, St. Petersburg Philharmonic.

Pietro Borgonovo is Artistic Director of the Giovine Orchestra Genovese and since 2003 Artistic Director of the International Music Competition G. B. Viotti of Vercelli.