bio

Giovanni Conti was born in Varese in 1996 into a family of musicians. He began his musical studies at the age of six by participating in the children's choir of the Civico Liceo Musicale in his city.

At the same institute, at the age of thirteen he joined Emanuele Vianelli's organ class. With the same teacher he began to study piano, which he then furthered with Livia Rigano and Mariangela Vacatello.

He attended Giovanni Mazza's organ class at the Conservatorio 'Giuseppe Verdi' in Milan, where he graduated in conducting with Daniele Agiman. He completed the Master of Orchestral Conducting course at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart in Rasmus Baumann's class.

Since the 2022/23 season, he's serving as Kapellmeister at the Krefeld-Mönchengladbach Theatre, where he had the opportunity to conduct several titles, including Der fliegende Holländer, Evgenij Onegin, Il viaggio a Reims, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto, La traviata, Faust and Elias.

He conducted Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in October and November 2022 at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna as part of the Ravenna Festival's Trilogia d'autunno. His next debuts will be with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orchestra della Toscana and the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana.

He participated in the 13th edition of the Premio Guido Cantelli, winning the second prize. In 2022 he won first prize in the CAMPUS Dirigieren competition among the best conducting students at German conservatories. In 2021 he won the first edition of the Premio Angelo Mariani in Ravenna.

He participated as a student conductor at the Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy, having the opportunity to work alongside Maestro Muti for a fortnight conducting the Orchestra Giovanile 'Luigi Cherubini' in excerpts from the operas Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni and Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo.

In summer 2024, he participated in the prestigious masterclass held by maestros Daniele Gatti and Luciano Acocella at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, at the end of which he was awarded for his conducting of Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale.

Among the orchestras he conducted: Orchestra Giovanile 'Luigi Cherubini', Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Staatskapelle Weimar, Orchestra dell'Accademia Teatro alla Scala, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Niederreinische Sinfoniker, Neue Philharmonie Westphalen, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz.