Gianluca Martinenghi

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Gianluca Martinenghi
Born
Milan, Italy
Nationality Italian [1]
Occupationconductor [2]
Years active1994-present
Known for conducting

Gianluca Martinenghi is an Italian opera and symphonic music conductor. [3] [4] From 2016 to 2018 he was the Music director of Macedonian National Theatre. [5] [6] Currently he is the Artistic Secretary of Teatro Reggio in Turin, Italy, [7]

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Early life and background

Gianluca Martinenghi used to go learning piano and composition with Piero Rattalino and Bruno Bettinelli respectively. [8] Accompanying with Donato Renzetti [9] and Giacomo Zani, he began studying orchestral conducting later. [10] In association with Teatro Massimo [11] he worked as a conductor. [12] He worked as a musicologist writer and was published at specialized magazines for piano review especially in Musica, Piano Time and Symphonia. [5] At that time he began working in Teatro regio di torino as a répétiteur, that led him to the operatic repertoire, being an assistant to accomplished musicians for example Yuri Ahronovitch and Gianandrea Gavazzeni. [5] In the first part of his career, he executed several symphonic concerts and contemporary 20th Century productions by Benjamin Britten and Hans Werner Henze. With his music direction, an Opera was staged at the Tbilisi Z. Paliashvili Opera and Ballet State Theatre in 2018. [13] In 2012, Munich Radio Orchestra and L’Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal were two of his vital international orchestras. [3] [14] In 2013, he inaugurated the Taormina Festival with Rigoletto (broadcast worldwide) and in 2014 he inaugurated with Aida and the Orchestra of Teatro Bellini di Catania the Siracusa Festival. [15]

Conduct at major concert halls

Gianluca Martinenghi is known to be invited to conduct concerts which includes: Budapest’s Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, [16] Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Munich Radio Orchestra, Ochestra Sinfonica dello Sferisterio di Macerata, Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, la Suisse Romande, Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago, Carlo Felice di Genova, [17] Toscanini di Parma, [18] The National Hungarian Filarmomic Orchestra, [4] [19] Sinfonica de Malaga, Teatro Comunale di Modena, [20] [21] Orquesta del Teatro Colón, Sinfónica de Tenerife, Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari. [22] [23] [3]

Repertoire

As an operatic conductor, Martinenghi has some notable titles in his repertoire. Among them Croatian National Theatre, Deutsche Oper Berlin, [24] Georgian National Theatre, [25] Grand Theatre de Tours, [26] Irish National Opera, [27] Macedonian National Theatre, [6] NCPA of Beijing, [14] Palm Beach Opera, Seoul Opera Center, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, [28] Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, [29] Slovenian National Theatre, [8] [30] Sydney Opera House, [3] Teatro Bellini di Catania, Comunale di Bologna, [31] dell'Opera di Roma, [32] Verona Arena and Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo. [33]

Nominations and accolades

Gianluca Martinenghi was nominated Principal Guest Conductor to the Tenerife Opera Festival in the period included between 2009/2011, [34] [35] and Chief Conductor of Macedonian Opera Theatre from 2016 until 2018. [36] In January 2023 he was nominated Artistic Secretary of Teatro Reggio in Turin, Italy, [7]

Discography

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