Marco Guidarini

Biography

Marco Guidarini studied conducting with Franco Ferrara and became assistant to Sir John-Elliot Gardiner in Lyon making his operatic debut there with Falstaff. He went on to conduct at the opera houses of New York (Metropolitan), Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Sydney, Nice, Barcelona, Seville, Bologna, Naples, Berlin (Deutsche Oper), Munich (Bayerische Staatsoper), Leipzig, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, English National Opera, Copenhagen and at many festivals.

In the concert hall, he has conducted the Orchestre National de France, Melbourne Symphony, Orchestra of the Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Japan Virtuoso Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus among others.

Between 2001 and 2009 Marco Guidarini was Chief Conductor of the Opera and Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice where he conducted numerous productions including Salome (French version), Pelleas et Melisande and Wozzek as well as a full annual concert series.

In October 2009, he made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala conducting a new production of Le convenienze e inconvenienze teatrali. In the summer of 2010 he conducted concerts with the orchestra of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala at La Scala and on tour to Moscow, St. Petersburg and the festivals of Ravello and Pompeii. In the autumn of 2010 he made his debut at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires with a new production of Falstaff and conducted Don Pasquale for San Diego, La traviata in Dallas and Il trovatore in Toronto. In Europe he conducted new productions of Cyrano de Bergerac in Seville and La Boheme in Genoa.

Between 2009 and 2012 he was Artistic Director of the Rencontres Musicales de Puteaux, a festival around the figure of Bellini who died in that town just outside Paris in 1835. He is Chairman of the Bellini Competition which arose from the festival and took place in Catania in 2012. His recordings with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice including the complete Piano Concertos of John Field and complete concertos of Lalo have recently appeared on the Talent label.