Francesco Cilluffo

Francesco Cilluffo (born in Turin, Italy, January 1979) is an Italian conductor and composer.

He graduated in Composition and Conducting with Gilberto Bosco from the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Turin after having completed a Music Degree from the University of Turin with a thesis about Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd. In 2003 he moved to London, where he completed a PhD in Composition at the King's College London, after having been awarded a Master in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He also held the position of a Composition and Conducting fellow for the Academic Year 2004-2005. Particularly important for his development as a composer were the sessions with Alexander Goehr in Cambridge and meeting Tobias Picker. His works have been performed in Italy, England, Austria, Russia, United States and Hong Kong.

He has worked as assistant conductor in the United States (Lyric Opera of Chicago and Hollywood Bowl Orchestra) and Europe (Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Opera House, Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg, and Teatro La Fenice, Venice). He has also attended master classes with conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas (with the London Symphony Orchestra), Iván Fischer (Budapest Festival Orchestra) and Gianluigi Gelmetti (Accademia Musicale Chigiana). He now lives in Milan, Italy.

Cilluffo has distinguished himself as a conductor in venues such as the Barbican Centre, Sadler's Wells Theatre, City of London Festival in London, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Municipal Theatre of Santiago in Chile, Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi, Nuovo Teatro Comunale in Sassari, Teatro Fraschini in Pavia, Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, Teatro Sociale in Como, Teatro Grande in Brescia, Teatro Rossini in Lugo and festivals such as Byblos International Festival, Festival della Valle d'Itria, Incontri in Terra di Siena. Among his recent conducting engagements are Zemlinsky's Der König Kandaules at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde at the Festival della Valle d'Itria, a tour of concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago in Chile (featuring music by Rossini, Haydn and Mendelssohn), Marco Tutino’s opera The Servant at the Teatro Rossini in Lugo and Mozart’s Requiem (edited by Robert D. Levin) with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino in Turin. He also conducted Luigi Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor with the orchestra and chorus of the Accademia Stefano Tempia in Turin and an all-Handel concert with the same company.

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