Giancarlo Rizzi

Italian conductor Giancarlo Rizzi was born in 1982 in Verona and he graduated at the Sibelius Academy with Leif Segerstam in orchestral conducting (spring 2013). There he had also the opportunity to study with Jorma Panula and Mikko Franck, among others.In summer 2014 he has been invited by Lorin Maazel to join his conducting masterclass during the Castleton Festival ( USA). In 2016 he started a collaboration with the "Pomeriggi Musicali" orchestra in Milan conducting Lucia Off, an adaptation of Lucia di Lammermoor by Alberto Cara starring Desirée Rancatore andFrancesco Micheli. He has been reinvited for the 2017 season to conduct the same production in Milan and to conduct a concert in the regoular concert season. He made his concert debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, as a spe