Andrea Battistoni is one of rising young talent in Italian musical scene. Born in Verona in 1987, he began his musical studies at the age of seven with Petra and Zoltan Szabò, continuing then at the Conservatory of Music of his city and graduating in cello in 2006, also attending master classes with the cellist Michael Flaksman in Germany, graduating in 2009.
He began to study conducting and composition in 2004. In 2006 Andrea Battistoni started to study conducting with Ennio Nicotra in Perugia and in Russia, St. Petersburg, working with St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra. His main three years training with Gabriele Ferro at Fiesole Music School in Florence were very important.
He was also assistant of Piercarlo Orizio and participated at some masterclasses with Gilberto Serembe.
In 2009 he follows the Orchestral Conducting Masterclass of Stresa Music Academy with Gianandrea Noseda, conducting part of the final concert with the Royal College of Music Orchestra of Manchester.
He made his debut at “Michelangeli” International Music Festival in Bergamo with Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and in October 2008, thanks to Maurizio Barbacini, whom he was an assistant, he made his operatic debut with La bohème at Basel Theatre.
His interpretation of Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 6 “Patetique” with the Orchestra of Teatro Verdi in Trieste has received a triumphal acclaim from the public: he was immediately reinvited for another concert with same enthusiastic result. In April 2009 Andrea Battistoni conducted the Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona for the Festival VeronaContemporanea in a program with music by Stockhausen and John Adams.
In September, at Villa Reale of Naples, he debuted with great success with the Orchestra of Teatro di San Carlo of Naples in a program with music of Mozart and Tchaikovsky. He returned to conduct the Neapolitan Orchestra on May 2010 in a program with the Italian cellist Enrico Dindo (Dvořák’s Concerto) and Rachmaninoff. He will return next year with an operatic production.
He recently debuted with the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice of Venice and Orchestra del Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, both in their prestigious theatres. In January 2010 he conducted Bohème in Verona and in February concerts with the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana (pianist Ivo Pogorelich) and with the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova. Later he made his debut with a concert at Teatro Massimo of Palermo (pianist Louis Lortie). This year he will conduct the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan and Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento. For the season 2009/10 of the Verdi Theatre in Trieste he conducted the ballet Antonio with Compagnia Antonio Marquez and the Orchestra of Teatro Verdi; he will come back to Trieste to open the next season with La traviata with Mariella Devia on title-role. On August 2010, for the Young Festival of the Rossini Opera Festival, he will conduct in Pesaro the two performances of Il viaggio a Reims; on the same period he will make his concert debut at Festival della Valle d’Itria of Martina Franca (violinist Sergej Krilov). Next engagements include Rigoletto and symphonic concerts at Filarmonico of Verona (2011) and Nabucco in Japan with Tokyo Philharmonic (2012).
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Andrea Battistoni is one of rising young talent in Italian musical scene. Born in Verona in 1987, he began his musical studies at the age of seven with Petra and Zoltan Szabò, continuing then at the Conservatory of Music of his city and graduating in cello in 2006, also attending master classes with the cellist Michael Flaksman in Germany, graduating in 2009.