The translucent, but in its language very moving score was in good hands with Tito Ceccherini - he succeeded in rendering an airy but present soundscape, with sculpted climaxes. Opernglas, April 2022

Italian conductor Tito Ceccherini has made a name for himself especially with interpretations of works from the 20th Century as well as contemporary repertoire. He skilfully combines a focus on details with an understanding of the larger structure of a work - the Deutschlandfunk, for example, hailed his interpretation of Janáček's From the House of the Dead: "Tito Ceccherini crystallises (...) these disparate but tremendously colourful musical levels with aplomb and precision and does not lose sight of the overall architecture of the three-act work".

In the season 2023/24 Tito Ceccherini returns to the Orchestra della Toscana, and will conduct the world premiere of a piano concerto by Federico Gardella as well as works by Sibelius and Nielsen with the Deutschen Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz in Rockenhausen and Mannheim. Compositions by Filidei and Sibelius are programmed for a concert with the Orchestra dell’Opera Carlo Felice in Genoa, and he leads a new opera by Lucia Ronchetti with the SWR Symphony Orchestra at the Schwetzinger SWR Festspielen. He will also be a guest again with the Remix Ensemble and the Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música in Portugal. 

In opera he celebrated a great success with Jenske Mijnssen’s new production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites at the Opera Zurich in spring 2022, following his first invitation at the house with Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in 2019. He gave his house debuts at Theater Basel with Verdi’s La Traviata (direction: Benedikt von Peter) in 2022 as well as at the Staatsoper Stuttgart with Janáček’s Katja Kabanova in 2023 (direction: Jossi Wieler/Sergio Morabito). Since 2009 he has been working regularly at Teatro La Fenice in Venice where he conducted works such as Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (2020), Sciarrino’s Luci mie traditrici (2019), Battistelli’s Richard III (2018; direction: Robert Carsen, winner of the Franco Abbiati Music Critics Award), Krenek’s Cefalo e Procri (2017), and Sciarrino’s La porta della legge (2014). Other houses where he has been a reoccurring guest include Oper Frankfurt (Bellini I puritani 2018, Janáček Aus einem Totenhaus 2018, Strawinsky The Rake’s Progress 2017) as well as Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse (Mozart Entführung aus dem Serail 2017, Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict 2016, Dallapiccola Il prigioniero / Bartók Blue Beard’s Castle 2015 – direction: Aurélien Bory). Following the sensational world premiere of Sciarrino’s Da gelo a gelo at the Schwetzinger Festspiele in 2006, he led numerous premiers and first performances including most recently Lucia Ronchetti’s Inferno at Oper Frankfurt in 2021. 

Tito Ceccherini emerges also as conductor of international renowned symphony orchestras. As such he has worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, the Radio Orchestras of Stuttgart, Cologne, Frankfurt and Turin as well as many other leading orchestras in Italy, Spain and Portugal. Among his regular partners are the most important ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble intercontemporain, Collegium Novum Zurich or Ensemble Contrechamps. 

Tito Ceccherini is founder of the Ensemble Risognanze, with whom he performs master works of the chamber music repertoire from Debussy to today documented on several CDs. His extensive discography includes recordings with Sony, Kairos, Col legno and Stradivarius, who have been awarded with the Diapason d’or, the Midem Classical Award and the Choc du Monde de la Musique among others. 

Born in Milan he studied piano, composition and conducting in his home town at the Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi“ before he continued his education in St. Petersburg (Russia), Stuttgart and Karlsruhe (Germany). 

Season 2023/24

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