Fabio mastrangelo

Fabio Massimo Mastrangelo (born November 27, 1965) is an Italian conductor, particularly active in Russia since 2001. He has conducted performances substituting Yuri Temirkanov at the helm of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, and Valery Gergiev at the Mariinsky Theatre. He has made world-premiere recordings of the orchestral music by Italian contemporary composer Elisabetta Brusa .

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• 1 Biography
• 2 References

Biography
Mastrangelo was born in Bari, Italy, studied there and graduated from its Conservatory as a pianist, later graduating from both the Geneva Conservatory (under Maria Tipo) and the London Academy of Music. Parallelly he initiated conducting studies at the Music Academy in Pescara, later attending masterclasses under Karl Österreicher, Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Meier, Neeme Järvi, and Jorma Panula. In 1990 moved to Canada to complete his conducting studies at the University of Toronto (1992) under Michel Tabachnik and Richard Bradshaw. There he started his professional music career as Assistant Conductor with the UofT Symphony Orchestra and to Boris Brott. In 1996 founded the chamber orchestra Virtuosi di Toronto. Most recently, he has been appointed to the position of Principal Guest Conductor with the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra following in the footstep of Arnold Kats , the National Orchestra of Tatarstan (Kazan), and the Ekaterimburg State Opera Theatre . At the same time, he mantains the positions of Artistic Director of the chamber orchestra Novosibirsk Camerata, and of Musical Adviser of the Petruzzelli Opera Theatre in Bari.

References
1. ^ News Desk "Orchestral Works Vol 1 Elisabetta Brusa", Soundgenerator.com, 1 July 2002. Retrieved on 2008-02-18.
2. ^ Marina Korsakova. "Mozart more difficult than contemporaries", Continent Sibir, 1 February 2008. Retrieved on 2008-19-02.

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