Attilio Cremonesi, conductor and musician with a classical background, graduated in piano, organ and organ composition, harpsichord and chamber music.

Over the past twenty years, Attilio Cremonesi has conducted the most important orchestras with original instruments and some of the most renowned symphonic orchestras in Europe.

Recently he has conducted operas at the Municipal Theater of Santiago de Chile, at the National Theater of Mannheim and at the Capitol Theater in Toulouse, with which he has created a long association over the years.

Until 2020 he was “First Guest Conductor” of the Philharmonic Orchestra and Municipal Theater of Santiago de Chile.

Since autumn 2021 he has been the musical and artistic director of the Händelfestspielorchester in Halle.

Attilio Cremonesi Conductor of the orchestra. Santiago Concert 2019
Cremonesi direttore orchestra
Attilio Cremonesi Conductor of the orchestra. Santiago Concert 2019

Attilio Cremonesi graduated in piano, organ and organ composition at the G. Nicolini conservatory in Piacenza and organ, harpsichord and chamber music at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. Privately he studied conducting. During his studies in Basel he deepened his research on performance practice with historical instruments and the evolution of orchestral sound over the centuries.

As a musical assistant, he collaborates with some of the most important conductors; the collaboration with René Jacobs is particularly long and fruitful, introducing him to the world of baroque and classical opera. In that period Cremonesi began conducting his first opera productions and the first symphonic concerts.

Cremonesi has to his credit numerous recordings and videos, some of which have been awarded by critics.

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Attilio Cremonesi Conductor of the orchestra. Ausburg Philharmonic Rehearsal.

Study and research in musical expression

During his career he has conducted and played the first modern performances of numerous Italian and German operas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to which in the last 15 years unpublished operas and symphonic compositions of the classical and romantic period have been added.

Attilio Cremonesi conducts the orchestra
Attilio Cremonesi conducts the orchestra

The whole show also owes a lot to the quality of the conducting, the choir and the singers, led by the evening's maître de musique, the conductor Attilio Cremonesi. Starting from the overture, he transmits an energy that does not fade until the end of the show, always very attentive to everything that happens on stage. Alive, precise, without any heaviness: a Rossini, whose intentions are fully adhered to by both the orchestra and the choir of the Capitol.

[CULTURE 31, referring to “Il Turco in Italia”, by G. Rossini – Theater of Toulouse]

[ ... ] Attilio Cremonesi possesses a refined ear and a well-founded knowledge of Mozart and the ardent passions transmitted by his music. Cremonesi conducts the composition, following its rhetoric and affections, which " speak '' as has rarely happened until now. He and the Kammerorchester of Basel give life to a sonorous language of great vitality, in which the moments of the most intense musical expression are modeled and then immediately interrupted through variations and ornaments, stops, pauses and small improvisations of the orchestra and singers. Cremonesi has to his credit numerous recordings and videos, some of which have been awarded by critics.

[SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, in reference to “The Rape of the Seraglio”, by W. A. ​​Mozart – Theater of Basel]
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