Damian Iorio

Last updated

Damian Iorio (born 1972) is a British-Italian conductor.

Contents

Early life and education

Born in London, Iorio is the son of violinist Diana Cummings and viola player Luciano Iorio. Iorio's uncle is Douglas Cummings, the former principal cello of the London Symphony Orchestra. [1] He began violin studies as a young child with Sheila Nelson. [2] While an undergraduate violin student of Yossi Zivoni at the Royal Northern College of Music, Iorio began conducting studies and participated in conducting masterclasses with Ilya Musin.

He completed violin studies at Indiana University, USA with Franco Gulli. Iorio went on to study conducting at Saint Petersburg Conservatory with Ilya Musin and Alexander Polishchuk. At the same time, he held a position in the first violin section of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

Career

Iorio appeared on the international scene in 2006 following his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He went on to work with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, [3] Paris Opera, [4] Detroit Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Philharmonia, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique, and the BBC Symphony, Scottish, Welsh and Philharmonic orchestras. Iorio was music director of the Milton Keynes City Orchestra [5] from 2014 until the orchestra's closure in 2019. He is also Music Director of the National Youth String Orchestra, having held this position since 2012.

In 2021 he founded the music publishing company Sfera Publishing.

Selected recordings

Awards

In 2006, Iorio received the Knight of the Order of Saint Agatha from the Republic of San Marino in recognition for his services to music. 

Related Research Articles

István Kertész (conductor)

István Kertész was an internationally acclaimed Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor who, throughout his brief career led many of the world's great orchestras, including the Cleveland, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Detroit, San Francisco and Minnesota Orchestras in the United States, as well as the London Symphony, Vienna Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, and L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. His orchestral repertoire numbered over 450 works from all periods, and was matched by a repertoire of some sixty operas ranging from Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Wagner to the more contemporary Prokofiev, Bartók, Britten, Kodály, Poulenc and Janáček. Kertész was part of a musical tradition that produced fellow Hungarian conductors Fritz Reiner, Antal Doráti, János Ferencsik, Eugene Ormandy, George Szell, János Fürst, Ferenc Fricsay, and Sir Georg Solti.

Yuri Temirkanov Russian conductor

Yuri Khatuevich Temirkanov is a Russian conductor of Circassian (Kabardian) origin.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Esa-Pekka Salonen is a Finnish orchestral conductor and composer. He is principal conductor and artistic advisor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and music director of the San Francisco Symphony.

The Gramophone Classical Music Awards, launched in 1977, are one of the most significant honours bestowed on recordings in the classical record industry. They are often viewed as equivalent to or surpassing the American Grammy award, and referred to as the Oscars for classical music. They are widely regarded as the most influential and prestigious classical music awards in the world. According to Matthew Owen, national sales manager for Harmonia Mundi USA, "ultimately it is the classical award, especially worldwide."

Thomas Adès

Thomas Adès is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: The Tempest (2004), Violin Concerto (2005), Tevot (2007), In Seven Days (2008), and Polaris (2010).


Sir John Michael Pritchard,, born Stanley Frederick Pritchard, was an English conductor. He was known for his interpretations of Mozart operas and for his support of contemporary music.

Gil Shaham is an American violinist of Israeli Jewish descent.

Vladimir Jurowski

Vladimir Mikhailovich Jurowski is a Russian and British conductor. He is the son of conductor Michail Jurowski, and grandson of Soviet film music composer Vladimir Michailovich Jurowski.

Martyn Charles Brabbins is a British conductor. The fourth of five children in his family, he learned to play the euphonium, and then the trombone during his youth at Towcester Studio Brass Band. He later studied composition at Goldsmiths, University of London. He subsequently studied conducting with Ilya Musin at the Leningrad Conservatory.

Ilya Aleksandrovich Musin was a Russian conductor, a prominent teacher and a theorist of conducting.

Rory Macdonald is a Scottish conductor.

John Neal Axelrod is an American conductor. Axelrod was elected Artistic and Musical Director of the Royal Symphony Orchestra of Seville in 2014 and is Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, "Giuseppe Verdi", also known as "LaVerdi". Between 2009 and 2013, Axelrod was Music Director of l'Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, based in Nantes and Angers, France; and from 2009 to 2011, Axelrod served as Music Director of "Hollywood In Vienna" Gala Concerts with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna. He has also served as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra from 2004 to 2009, and from 2001 to 2009 as Principal Guest Conductor of Sinfonietta Cracovia.

Hannu Petteri Lintu is a Finnish conductor.

(Andrew) Alexander Briger AO is an Australian classical conductor. He is the nephew of the conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, and both are descended from the composer Isaac Nathan.

Sian Edwards is an English conductor, best known as music director of English National Opera in the 1990s.

Alexander Walker (conductor)

Alexander Walker is a British conductor.

Andrew Constantine is a British conductor. He is currently the Music Director of both the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the Reading Symphony Orchestra.

Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme

Emmanuel Leducq-Barôme (born 1971 is a French conductor.

Scott Yoo American conductor and violinist

Scott Yoo is an American conductor and violinist. He was appointed principal director of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra in 2016. He hosted the 2019 PBS released TV series Now Hear This.

Wolfgang Marschner was a German violinist, teacher of violin, composer and conductor. He was concertmaster of the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, and instrumental in world premieres of contemporary music. He was professor at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, the Musikhochschule Köln, the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music and, for more than three decades, at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He also taught at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse.

References

  1. ↑ "Obituary, Douglas Cummings (The Times, June 2014)".
  2. ↑ "Passing on the baton (Camden New Journal, August 2018)".
  3. ↑ "Glyndebourne Festival Opera Archive, Macbeth (June 2007)".
  4. ↑ "The New Criterion (July 2018) "Damian Iorio led a hair-raising performance from the Paris Opera's orchestra and chorus."".
  5. ↑ "Music Director biography, MKCO".
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.