Mimma Campanale

Born in 1990, Mimma Campanale studied conducting with Marco Angius, then with Arturo Tamayo at Lugano’s Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana and Neil Thomson in Dresden. A frequent conductor of world premieres, she opened the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto’s 79th season with Andrea Agostini’s Nanof, l’altro at the Teatro Caio Melisso, returning for Federico Gardella’s Una promessa infranta. Her collaborators include the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Icarus Ensemble, Forma Libera, Società dei Concerti Barattelli, where she was conductor-in-residence in 2019/20 and 2020/21, I Teatri, Traiettorie, Divertimento Ensemble, Orchestra della Magna Grecia, Filarmonica Calamani, Camerata Strumentale di Prato, Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali, Orchestra Sinfonica del Molise and Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto. Her repertoire extends to Fedele’s Ali di Cantor and Malipiero’s La Passione. She conducted For Peace at Nuova Consonanza in Rome (2024), broadcast on Rai Radio 3; Evangelisti’s Spazio a 5 with the Accademia Chigiana; and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the 42nd Saint-Barthélemy International Festival. As Marco Angius’s assistant, she worked on Sciarrino’s Studi per l’intonazione del mare at Milano Musica (2017), Guarnieri and Perocco premieres in Spoleto, and Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande at Parma’s Teatro Regio. She assisted Michele Gamba at Montepulciano’s 49th Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte, where she also conducted Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, and with the Haydn Orchestra in Bolzano for the Gianni Schicchi/Pierrot lunaire double bill. Her forthcoming engagements include Henze’s Don Quixote in Gütersloh and La traviata in the French Antilles.