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"Maestro Bisanti is a very interesting musician who takes very seriously the art of conducting.
A man who is really concerned with music and conducting, a talented musician with a deep musical insight." (Daniele Gatti)

Giampaolo Maria Bisanti

Born in Milan in 1972, as a very young man, Giampaolo Maria Bisanti started studying at the Milan Conservatory (il Conservatorio di Musica “G. Verdi”). He studied the clarinet, the piano, composition and later conducting, graduating with flying colours in 1997. At the same time he attended the orchestra conducting course il Corso Triennale di Alto Perfezionamento at the Music Academy in Pescara (l’Accademia Musicale Pescarese), graduating in 1995 again with flying colours. He was granted a training period for orchestra conductors held by Maestro Donato Renzetti at the “Pomeriggi Musicali” in Milan in 1998. He was invited to participate in Masterclass held by Maestro Benjamin Zander at the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 1998 and 2001 he was a professor of Orchestration Exercises and Orchestra Conducting at the Conservatory “G.Verdi” in Milan. Since 1995 he has been the principal conductor of the “Mozart Orchestra” in Milan, and has been the guest conductor of the most prestigious international orchestras such as “Le Serate Musicali”, “I Pomeriggi Musicali” in Milan, the Milan Symphony Orchestra “Giuseppe Verdi”, the Ferrara Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of “Teatro Lirico” in Spoleto, the Veneta Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lombardic Chamber Orchestra “G.Cantelli” in Milan, the “Orchestra of Colours” in Athens, the Orchestra Festival in Sofia, the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra Festival, the “Danube Symphony Orchestra” in Budapest, the Tuscan Regional Orchestra, the Radio TV Orchestra of Budapest, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of the “Carlo Felice” theatre in Genoa, the Orchestra of Teatro Comunale in Bologna.

In 1997 he made his debut in Milan conducting The Anonymous Letter (La Lettera Anonima) by Donizetti at Teatro Litta in Milan, with the Orchestra Sinfonica Giovanile of the Milan Conservatory. The opera was directed by Teatro Alla Scala, which was also responsible for set design. He worked as a conductor in Italy, the United States, Japan, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Albania, South America and Greece in the most prestigious theatres and concert halls, to name but a few: the Milan Auditorium, the Megaron Concert Hall in Athens, the Alti Hall in Kyoto, the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, the Ferenc Liszt Academy Hall in Budapest, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Ponchielli Theatre in Cremona, the Donizetti Theatre in Bergamo, the Teatro Grande in Brescia, the Teatro Nuovo and Caio Melisso in Spoleto, the Verdi Theatre in Padua, la Sala Grande of the Milan Conservatory, the Morlacchi Theatre in Perugia, the Teatro dei Rinnovati in Siena, the Teatro Litta in Milan, the Teatro Comunale in Treviso, the Teatro Coccia in Novara, the Teatro Sociale in Rovigo, the Teatro Sociale in Trento, the Teatro dell’Opera Giocosa in Savona.

He made his debut with 21 opera titles, and he conducted more than 350 symphonic concerts (among which were many avant-guarde scores), collaborating with artists of great fame such as K. Ricciarelli, M. Pertusi, T. Fabbricini, I. Salazar, D. Abbado, U. Santicchi, I. Stefanutti, S. Vizioli, S. Krilov, F. Meloni, S. Milenkovic, A. Pay, A. Meunier, F. Sartori and U. Clerici.

After numerous minor experiences, always attracting great interest for his artistic sensibility, his great international career has taken off since the 1999/2000 season. In fact, during that season he conducted the Orchestra Stabile of Teatro di Como and the Orchestra of “I Pomeriggi Musicali” in Milan, performing Cenerentola  by Rossini and La Bohème by Puccini for the Circuito ASLICO.

During the season of 2001/2002 he conducted Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio in Bassano del Grappa, achieving such success that he deserved to return for the next seasons of “Opera Festival Veneto”, returning also to the Verdi Theatre in Padua with ever more important and demanding titles such as: Madam Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, Othello, La Bohème and Manon Lescaut by Puccini; La Traviata and Nabucco by Verdi; and the famous diptych Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci.

In 2003 he made his debut even with the opera Don Pasquale by Donizetti at the Teatro Lirico in Spoleto.During these seasons he also conducted ballets such as The Nutcracker by P. I. Tchaikovsky at the Tonhalle in Zurich and the Opera Theatre in Basel; he conducted Francesca da Rimini at the Teatro Politeama Greco in Lecce, Romeo and Juliet and Capriccio Italiano by P. I. Tchaikovsky.

He recorded l’ Histoire du soldat by I. Stravinsky for the famous monthly AMADEUS, conducting  the Solisti del Teatro Alla Scala.

He was Maestro Luciano Berio’s assistant in the European project “The Art of the Fugue 2001” (“L’Arte della Fuga 2001”) of the Teatro Lirico in Spoleto. He assisted the artistic direction and was the director of the opera (Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio) and symphonic season. Besides, he was an honorary professor of Corso di Perfezionamento for orchestra professors in 2000.

As the winner of numerous international awards (Mitropoulos-Athens 1998, Franco Capuana-Spoleto 1999 and Budapest 2002) and national awards (Premio d’Onore per meriti artistici Conservatorio di Milano (the honorary prize of the Milan Conservatory for meritorious artists)-1998 and the “Tullio Besa” Regione Veneto Award-2002), he was registered in l’Albo d’Oro del Mondo della Musica in Rome, in the Italian Musical Database (Banca Dati Musicale Italiana) and in Podium del Cidim (as an Italian winner in international competitions), in l’A.I.T. Opera in Geneva, and in 2001 the British and International Music Yearbook of London.

In 2003 he made his debut in Hungary with the Danube Symphony Orchestra at the F. Liszt Academy Hall in Budapest, and after that in Switzerland with the Basel Symphony Orchestra in Basel, collaborating as the assistant conductor and stage assistant for the production of Aida for the Companions Opera in Amsterdam. The same year he got the Degree of Merit and a grant from the Accademia Chigiana of Siena for an orchestra conducting course held by Maestro Yuri Ahronovitch.

In 2004 he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Veneta Philharmonic Orchestra “G. F. Malipiero” in Treviso. As such, he regularly performed in symphonic concerts and operas all over Triveneto. The following year he became the Artistic Director.

He made his debut at the prestigious Boswiler Sommer Festival 2004 in Zurich, conducting Copland’s Concert for the clarinet and orchestra (soloist Reto Bieri), conducting the Orchestra Boswil Concerto (in collaboration with St. Petersen Quartett from Berlin and the Casalquartett from Zurich). The performance was recorded by the Swiss DRS 2 Radio.

Every year he is invited to conduct the well-known peace concert at l’Ara Pacis in Medea. In 2004 he accompanied the violinist Stefan Milenkovic, conducting the Sarajevo International Orchestra in the International Season “Nei Suoni Dei Luoghi” in Gorizia, an evening of international relevance featuring the participation of the actor Vincenzo Bocciarelli. After that he participated in the 2005 edition with the Karmelos Orchestra, the cellist Alain Meunier and actor Lina Sastri. In 2006 he conducted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony featuring USCI’s choir from Friuli Venezia Giulia. The whole performance was recorded by RAI. In 2007 he conducted Verdi’s Requiem.

The same year he made his debut with the Tuscan Regional Orchestra (l’Orchestra Regionale Toscana) for the Symphonic Season of 2004/2005. The institution invites him to participate in the symphonic season every year.

Having been invited by the Italian Embassy in Ecuador, he made his debut at the newly restored national theatre Teatro Nacional Sucre in Quito, conducting the Orquesta Sinfònica Juvenil del Ecuador and the Orquesta Sinfonica de Guayaquil.

During the season of 2005/2006 he made various great and triumphal debuts:

- InRigoletto, opening the Apolonia International Festival of Tirana; with the Orchestra and choir “Giuseppe Verdi” from Milan, he conducted the very first performance of L’Aumento by Luciano Chailly, live at Radio-Rai.

In December 2006 he made his debut in Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice (symphonic season 2006/2007), greatly admired by the audience and reviewers.

The successes of 2007 brought him even closer to the prominent role in today’s panorama with two highly prestigious debuts:

- La Bohème at Tel Aviv, conducting one of the most esteemed orchestras in the world, the “ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA” in Tel Aviv and Haifa, as the third Italian conductor, after Antonio Pappano and Daniele Gatti.  It was a great success followed by an applause of the whole orchestra, repeated ovations of the audience and extraordinary reviews in the Israeli press.

He then conducted La Bohème at the Teatro Sociale in Trento, a production performed in the Teatro Sociale in Rovigo in March.

2007 was marked by numerous successes in all the major Italian theatres: Othello  by G. Verdi at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, at the Teatro Goldoni in Livorno, at the Teatro Sociale in Trento and the Teatro dell’opera Giocosa in Savona;

Since April he has made his debuts in the United States with the Monterey Symphony Orchestra in San Francisco (California), highly admired by reviewers and the audience. This is how the American reviewers expressed their opinion “The conductor Bisanti shines with his new debut in the US... America, good news! An exciting new conductor has just set foot on our continent...”

The debuts worth mentioning are the one at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna in July, with the first concert of the season “Estate al Bibiena”; a tour with the ORT- Orchestra Regionale Toscana (the Tuscan Regional Orchestra), also in July, and at the “Carlo Felice” theatre in Genoa on September 9 and 16.

In October he conducted Rigoletto at the Verdi Theatre in Salerno, with Devid Cecconi, Anna Skibinsky, directed by Renzo Giacchieri. This is the opinion of a reviewer:

"Rigoletto conquers the Verdi Theatre in Salerno."

"In the end the orchestra closely followed the accents of the conductor Giampaolo Bisanti whose score was before his eyes and nothing but that was an option: in his mind all the notes of the opera, from the first to the last one, had already been deciphered in the style of Toscanini. His flexibility completed all."

"Positive reviews for the Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana, guided by Giampaolo Bisanti who knew how to find even the moments of excellent concertation in complex stage and musical situations, with double duos which now form a quartet, now get divided into separate dramatic and vocal entities.”

After a short while he returned to accompany the celebrated tenor Neil Shicoff in a recital, described by critics in this way:

“The orchestra conducted by Maestro Bisanti has shown brilliance and increasing flexibility of performance being in perfect harmony with the young conductor, a man destined to be talked about.”

In November and December he conducted Don Giovanni by Mozart at Bassano del Grappa and at the Verdi Theatre in Padua. This is what Lorenzo Arruga wrote in “Il Giornale”:

“They were all lucky to listen to a wonderful and well-balanced orchestra, conducted very attentively by the young Giampaolo Bisanti, who even takes control over the stage, and is never insecure, inert, or banal, and who greatly enjoys Mozart.”

Opera entities rush to entrust him with the most complex and delicate operas of their future plans (Manon Lescaut at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Orpheus and Eurydice with Roberto Alagna at the Teatro Communale in Bologna; Madam Butterfly for the Petruzzelli Foundation in Bari, la Clemenza di Tito in Savona, Macbeth in Trento, Rovigo and Pisa), while one of the most notable and prestigious Italian orchestras, the orchestra of RAI in Torino, opens the door for his conducting debut as the only Italian conductor of the season.

For the season of 2008/2009 productions are also planned with the Milan Symphony Orchestra “G.Verdi”, Teatro Communale in Florence and the Monterey Symphony Orchestra.

Following productions 2008/2009:

January 8 – 19, 2008, Teatro Communale in Bologna, Orpheus and Eurydice

January 19 – 20, Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, the Triptych (Il Trittico)

March/ April/ October 2008, Teatro Sociale in Trento, in Rovigo, Teatro Verdi in Pisa, G.Verdi, Macbeth

April 17-19, 2008, Auditorium Rai in Torino, RAI Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic season 2007/2008

July 13-19, 2008, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, G. Puccini, Manon Lescaut

October 2008, Teatro Communale in Florence, La Bohème

October/November 2008, Teatro dell’ Opera Giocosa in Savona, and Teatro Sociale in Rovigo, W.A. Mozart, La Clemenza di Tito

Symphonic season of 2008/2009, “G.Verdi” Symphony Orchestra in Milan