Conductor & Composer
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Marcello Bufalini Conductor & Composer |
In 1994 Marcello Bufalini made his conducting début with the Graz Symphony Orchestra, receiving such an enthusiastic response that he was immediately appointed Principal Guest Conductor for the '95/'96 season. In the same year he conducted the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia. With the Graz Symphony Orchestra he directed the season opening concerts in '95, '96 (Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde) and 2000, and the Sylvesterkonzerte in '96 (Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.)
Since then he has often been a guest of important international orchestras, including Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Wiener Tonkünstlerorchester, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunkorchester, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Orchestra Sinfonica "Giuseppe Verdi," Milano. He has appeared in such prestigious concert halls as the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
In 1997 Maestro Bufalini made his operatic conducting debut at the Wiener Kammeroper in Donizetti's "Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali." In 1998 he conducted "Così fan tutte" at the Slovak National Theater, Bratislava; and recorded Respighi's "La boutique fantasque" with the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk-Orchester. In October '99 he successfully opened the season at the Opéra du Rhin, Strasbourg, conducting Verdi's "Attila," where he later conducted "La Traviata" in 2003. In 2000 he conducted "Die Zauberflöte" at the Teatro Verdi, Sassari; in 2001 "The Art of Fugue," world premiere of Luciano Berio's project of transcription of Bach's masterpiece; the first modern reprise of "Consuelo" of Alfonso Rendano, at the Teatro Rendano, Cosenza. In November 2002 he led the production of "Tosca" at the Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna.
In November 2003, Maestro Bufalini conducted new productions of the 20th century Italian operas “Agezia matrimoniale” of R. Hazon and “Una domanda di matrimonio” of L. Chailly for the opera season in Teramo and Atri (Italy). In 2004 he conducted a Teatro Grande di Brescia production of “La Traviata” in the opera houses of Brescia, Bergamo, Como, Cremona and Pavia.
Marcello Bufalini recently completed and orchestrated the Piano Concerto in e minor by Felix Mendelssohn, which has already been performed to critical acclaim in Germany, England and in Japan in 2007 and 2008 at major venues and with leading orchestras such as the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome under Marc Albrecht, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under Harry Bicket and the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra in Tokyo under Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (October 2008)
In 2009 the Mendelssohn concerto will be recorded for Decca by Riccardo Chailly with Pianist Roberto Prosseda and the Gewandhaus Orchester in Leipzig. Also in 2009, it will be premiered by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Yannick Nezet-Seguin.
Marcello Bufalini is Conducting Professor at the Conservatorio "Alfredo Casella," L'Aquila, Italy. Born in Rome in 1963, he obtained Diplomas in viola and conducting at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He participated in master classes of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, held by Ilya Musin, Valery Gergiev and Myung-Whun Chung.