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Italian - Conductor, Composer, Pianist
Francesco D’Ovidio was born in 1967 in Naples. He studied at Naples
Conservatory of Music, graduating with four diplomas in piano composition,
choral music and orchestral conducting. He attended a post graduated piano
course with Maestro Bruno Canino in Milan and post graduated conducting
courses & master classes with Maestro Piero Bellugi Maestro Gustav Kuhn,
Maestro Pierluigi Urbini. Francesco D’Ovidio was assistant conductor of Maestro
Marcello Panni & Maestro Piero Bellugi. Francesco D’Ovidio teachs piano at the
Benevento Conservatory of Music, where he also is International Relations
Coordinator (IRC).
Francesco D’ovidio works as conductor, pianist and composer. As a pianist he had
played (soloist and chamber ensemble) for important music societies and theatres
in Italy, Germany, French, Austria, UK, Luxembourg, Grecia, Rumania, Poland,
USA & Canada.
As a conductor he is working with important Italian and European opera &
symphonic orchestras such as Orchestra Regionale della Campania. (Regional
Symphonic Orchestra), Orchestra Umberto Giordano di Foggia, (Regional
Symphonic Orchestra), ICO of Bari (Teatro Piccinni), Oradea State Philarmonic
Orchestra (Rumania), Arad Philharmonic Orchestra (Rumania), Harmonia Nobile
(Kiev), Opera Magiara (Cluj), Opera di Karkow (Ukraina), Accademia Musicale
Napoletana. (Neapolitan String Orchestra), Nuova Orchestra Alessandro Scarlatti
(Italian Symphonic Orchestra), Ensemble S. Pietro a Majella (Naples Conservatory
of Music) Ensemble Musica Viva (XX century repertoire where he was permanent
conductor until 2002).
Francesco D’Ovidio repertoire is very large: most popular Italian operas (Verdi,
Puccini, Mascagni) and a lot of symphonic repertoire from Bach until XX century
composer.
Francesco D’Ovidio is also a composer. He had written a lot of operas for piano
for ensemble and for orchestra that often it have been played; he also wrote music
for television and theatre. He had been working from 2004 until 2007 as conductor
and orchestrator with Maestro Antonio Maiello, a well known popular musician in
Italy, with whom he wrote the opera musical “Federico II la danza del falcone”,
produced by the famous manager David Zard.
In summer 2007 he worked with the ICO (symphonic orchestra) of Bari and
performs a show called “Napolincanto” (Neapolitan songs for 2 voices and large
symphonic orchestra); for this show he realized the orchestral parts (arrangements).
In November 2008 he conducted the Barbiere di Siviglia and Rigoletto at the
Naples Auditorium RAI.
In 2009 He composed the music for “Angelo, quante volte, un uomo” (“Angelo
how many times, a man”) a musical that has been performed in January 2010 with
live orchestra & choir Milano Classica under his direction in Milan at Teatro
Nuovo and Teatro Ciak.
In November 2011, for '"Autumn Music" of the New Scarlatti Orchestra, he
conducted the concert "Rhapsody" in which there were performed, with the
participation of pianist Enrico Fagnoni, his orchestral arrangements of music by
George Gershwin.
In 2012 he conducted the New Year Concert 2012 with Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti
in Naples at the Mediterraneo Theatre in Naples.
Most recent performances include concerts with Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti in Italy
for whom he also arranged many orchestral and piano pieces by Gershwin,
Stravinsky, Martinu, Dvorak, Janacek.
In September 2015 he started in Colombia a project for musical and cultural
exchanges with the well known Fundaciòn Batuda of Bogotà (Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil
Metropolitana Batuta) and the Red de Escuelas de Musica de Medellin.
In March 2016 Francesco D’Ovidio was pianist and conductor for the concert that
celebrated the Tunisian Nobel Peace Prize. The concert was in “Piazza del
Plebiscito” in Naples where was also Nobel Peace Prize Wided Bouchamaoui and
the Tunisian Ambassador in Italy.
In September 2016 he was guest conductor in Poland at Opera of Szczecin and at
Koszalin Philarmonic, for an international project sponsored by Pokoloruj Swiatt
Foundation with an orchestra formed by Italian and polish musicians.
www.francescodovidio.it