Gaetano d'Espinosa
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Born in Palermo in 1978, Gaetano d’Espinosa studied piano, violin and composition in his hometown with Mihal Spinei and Turi Belfiore and later with Salvatore Accardo in Milan.

Gaetano d’Espinosa served as Concertmaster at the Staatskapelle Dresden from 2001 until 2008, when he resigned to focus on his conducting career, taking on the role of musical assistant of Fabio Luisi. At Staatskapelle Dresden he also premiered his First Concerto for violin under the baton of Christian Arming.

In 2010 d’Espinosa conducted “La Traviata” at the Semperoper Dresden to resounding acclaim and, as assistant to Fabio Luisi, he travelled to the Pacific Music Festival in Japan conducting performances of “La Boheme”. He is “one of the greatest conductors I have ever met” says Fabio Luisi about d’Espinosa.

This has been a sudden start of an unbelievable career that took him, in less than three years, to be invited by major orchestras and theatres such as Kremerata Baltica, Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague, Chamber Orchestra Berlin, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Chamber Orchestra Dresden, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder, Orchestra di Santa Cecilia Roma, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Symphonieorchester Basel and Poznan Philharmonic.

In January 2012 Gaetano d’Espinsa has been called to the Opera de Lyon to conduct Puccini’s “Trittico” replacing a sick maestro: this has been a terrific moment in Gaetano’s career and his job has been received with greatest acclaim by international press, astonished for his command of both orchestra and stage.
“…Gaetano d’Espinosa opened up the sunny orchestral colors of the three Puccini operas…” wrote The Financial Times.

Recently Gaetano d’Espinosa has recorded a Haydn, Shostakovich and Ravel program with the Bamberger Symphoniker for the Bayerische Rundfunk.

In 2015 he had a residence of two months at Teatro la Fenice in Venice, conducting “La Traviata” and a new production of “Norma”.

2016/2017
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