Biography

Luciano Di Martino graduated from the Hamburg University of Music and Drama in Orchestral Conducting and won a scholarship to Siena, where he attended international master-classes given by Ilya Musin, Valery Gergiev and Myung-Whun Chung.

From 2000–2004 Di Martino served as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Bulgarian State Opera in Stara Zagora.

In 2004 he conducted Boris Christoff’s Anniversary Concert at the Sofia National Opera and in 2006 he conducted Verdi’s Requiem in memory of Ghena Dimitrova.

In 2008 Di Martino had a successful debut at the Hamburg State Opera with La Traviata, and has been a regular guest conductor there, ever since.

In July 2010 he was invited by Valery Gergiev to join the Mariinsky Theatre during the Stars of the White Nights festival, where he conducted a new production of Verdi’s Attila with the young Bass Ildar Abdrazakov in the title role. He has been a regular guest conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre ever since, conducting Aida, Don Carlo, I Pagliacci, as well as La Sonnambula and Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah with the Mariinsky Theatre Chorus and Symphony Orchestra.

In January 2011 Luciano Di Martino celebrated a big personal success at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre conducting the new production of L‘Elisir d’amore with star-soprano Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott, a co-production of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Opéra Bastille in Paris.

During his career he has also worked with the Philharmonic Orchestras of Baden-Baden, Novosibirsk, Katovice and Macerata and with the Symphony Orchestras of Hamburg, Thessaloniki, Solingen and Sofia National Radio. Since 2005 Di Martino has been a permanent guest conductor of the FM-Classic Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sofia.

His live television broadcasts include gala concerts with such distinguished singers as Ghena Dimitrova, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Orlin Anastassov, Mariana Pentscheva and Kaludi Kaludow, as well as symphony concerts with Pepe Romero, Leticia Moreno, Uto Ughi, Dag Jensen, Anton Barachovsky, Svetlin Roussev, Luigi Piovano and Maxim Vengerov.

Other important stages in Di Martino’s career were conducting Don Carlos, Macbeth and Turandot in Salzburg, Cavalleria Rusticana
I Pagliacci in New York, Tosca in Rotterdam and Den Haag, Lucia di Lammermoor in Minneapolis, Il Trovatore in Lisbon, Aida in Strasbourg, Otello and Tosca in Novosibirsk, La Boheme in New Brunswick, Rigoletto at the Worcester Music Festival, La Traviata and Carmina Burana in Thessaloniki and gala concerts in Riga.

Luciano Di Martino was recently appointed member of the advisory council of the honorary committee of the Tonali competition in Hamburg.

Updated in January 2012