Simone Zuccatti

Simone Zuccatti: He was born in 1985 in Trento, Northern Italy. After gaining a Degree in Trumpet in 2003 under Prof.

Ivano Ascari along with Composition Studies and Singing at the “Bonporti” Conservatorium of Music, Riva del Garda, he then devoted himself to Conducting, graduating with a Batchelors Degree in Conducting from the “Verdi” Conservatorium in Milano in 2012. His Mentor was Maestro Daniele Agiman. Subsequently, he read for a Masters Degree in Conducting resulting in a High Distinction under Maestro Eduardo Diazmuñoz at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Australia in 2015.
In 2016 he was finalist at the “Nino Rota International Conducting Competition” in Matera, winning the Special Prize of the Audience. He was then semi-finalist at the “Mendelssohn Competition” (Thessaloniki, Greece). In the last few years he worked with orchestras such as: I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milano, Orchestra Sinfonica Rossini of Pesaro, I Filarmonici of Trento, Orchestra of the Alps, Magna Grecia Orchestra (Italy), Sydney Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra (Australia), Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra (Ukraine), Koszalin Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland) and District of Columbia Youth Orchestra (Washington DC, USA).
During the 2018-19 season he conducted “La Traviata” at the MusicaRiva Festival and an all-Prokofiev programme with the Orchestra Filarmonica of Benevento. In 2016 he founded the Cultural Association “Spettro Armonico” for which he is both Artistic and Musical Director. Since that time he has mounted and conducted a number of concerts with the Spettro Armonico String Orchestra in music ranging from the 18th to the 21st Centuries.
He furthered his skills by participating in masterclasses in Europe and Australia with Maestri Daniele Agiman, Massimiliano Caldi, George Pehlivanian, Christopher Seaman, Johannes Fritzsch and Isaac Karabtchevski. In doing so he conducted, among others, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
In 2008 he graduated with honours in ‘Conservation of Artistic and Cultural Heritage’ at the University of Trento; his thesis concerned the “Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian” by Debussy/D’Annunzio. In 2014 he served as assistant to Maestro Nicola Luisotti for a production of Verdi’s “Othello” at the San Carlo Theatre, Napoli.