Michele Santorsola

 
Born in Isernia (Italy) in 1965, the italian conductor Michele Santorsola has made, at still an early stage of his carreer, several television and radio recordings for RAI Italian Radio Television, Radio Vaticano, Hellenic Radio-Television, PIK (Cyprus), Bulgarian National Radio-Television, Macedonian Radio-Television and Switzerland Television, as well as CD Productions for Edipan, Phoenix Classic and Ducale of Baroque and Contemporary music.
Coming from an unusual background (pupil of the famous italian oboist Bruno Incagnoli and of Rocco Filippini for chamber music, Michele Santorsola was for many years 1st solo oboe of the Cyprus Chamber Orchestra and oboe professor in Milan Conservatorium, he has toured as a soloist and Chamber musician: Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain, Mexico, Romania, New Zealand, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Poland, Serbia,  and United States. Michele Santorsola completed his conducting studies in Milan with M° Julius Kalmar at the "Hans Swarovsky" Academy.
Since then, long has been the list of engagements as Guest Conductor: Camerata Barocca, Ensemble Accademico Italiano, Messina Chamber Orchestra, Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, The National Symphony Orchestra RTV of Bulgaria, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, I Solisti di Venezia, Riga Symphony Orchestra, Vilnius Philharmonic Orchestra, Moldava Symphony Orchestra, The South Pacific Symphony, Cadiz Chamber Orchestra, Ente Autonomo Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Orchestra da Camera delle Marche, Orquesta Sinfonica de Monterrey UANL, Clark Symphony Orchestra, Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra, Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra, Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra “I Cameristi di Roma”, Timisoara Philharmonic Orchestra, “George Enescu” Philharmonic Orchestra of Bucharest, Ploiesti Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica de Aguascalientes, Orquesta Sinfonica de Guanajuato, Wiener International Orchestra, Camerata Romania, Cyprus Chamber Orchestra, Italian Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, Grosseto Symphony Orchestra, I Solisti di Napoli, Ensemble of the “Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna”, Brasov Philharmonic Orchestra, Szeged Philharmonic Orchestra, FVG Mitteleuropa Orchestra, Sofia National Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Catanzaro, Orchestra Sinfonica della Regione Valle d’Aosta, Adana Symphony Orchestra, MAV Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Since 1994 he has held the position of Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Orchestra da Camera e Sinfonica "Daniele Paris" in Rome , with which  he has carried out  an  intense activity  both as conductor and  as soloist ; the same orchestra was chosen to accompaign the final round of the International  Rome Piano Competition 1997, International “Scriabin” Piano Competition 2003 and 2011.
 
In 1993 he was nominated Music Director of the opera project "Nella Terra di Verdi" and also Assistant Conductor of the Laboratorio Lirico Sinfonico of Parma. Santorsola was Permanent Conductor for the season 1999-2000 of the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra, Skopje-FYROM.  For the season 2002-2003 he was Principal Conductor of the Craiova Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania. Since 2003 he started his relationship with Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra – Romania as a Principal Guest Conductor, being appointed Chef Conductor in December 2007, a position he still holds nowadays successfully.
Michele is an appreciated Artistic Director of various Italian Festivals too.
Since 2005 is Artistic Director of the “Monteroduni Città della Musica” Foundation and from April 2007 Artistic Director of  “Fernando Gambacurta” Music Foundation and the LCE LazioCulturaEventi.
 
Michele conducted in renowned halls like “Sibelius” Akademins Konserserie of Helsinky, “Felipe Villanueva” Hall of Toluca – Mexico, “San Benito Abad” Theatre of Mexico City, Teatro Principal of Guanajuato, “Mediterraneo” Theatre of Napoli, “Politeama” Theatre of Palermo, “Olimpico” Theatre of Roma, Anfiteatro of Siracusa, “Comunale” Theatre of Modena, “Bibiena” Theatre of Mantova, Wien Altes Rathaus of Vienna, Ateneul Roman of Bucarest, together with world famous soloists such as Cyprien Katsaris, Vladimir Ashkenasy, Radu Aldulescu, Katja Ricciarelli, Florin  Paul, Rocco Filippini, Nick Daniels, Rodolfo Bonucci, Victoria Milanova, Martino Tirimo, Carla Trynchuk, Giuseppe La Licata, Florin Croitoru, Cristina Anghelescu, Domenico Nordio, Stefan Metz, George Moench, Tina Thicman, Kamen Chanev, Riccardo Zanellato, Gabriella Tucci.
 
His discography includes first world recording of mainly Italian contemporary compositions but also from the mediterranan area by  G. Santorsola (concerto per 4 violini e archi), G. Tagliapietra (Fantasia per pianoforte e archi), A. D’Antò (2° Concerto for string orchestra), C. Rastelli (Lemme for pianoand orchestra), S. Michaelides (In Memoriam e Two Bizantine Sketches), S. Serghi (Ikon), C. Stylianou (Efialtis), P. Dymiotis (Suite).
His latest CD release, - G. F. Malipiero: Complete Piano Concertos - was highly acclaimed by the most renowned CD magazines, confirming his prestige in the field of italian music both operatic and symphonic.
 
He is Oboe professor  at Vibo Valentia Conservatorie  in Italy.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

George Enscu Philharmonic Orchestra of Bucharest
MAV Symphony Orchestra of Budapest
Iasi Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana
Orquesta Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico
Sofia National Philharmonic Orchestra
Orquesta Sinfonica de Cordoba
National Bulgarian RTV Symphony Orchestra
Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra
Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra
I Solisti di Venezia
Szeged Symphony Orchestra
Riga Symphony Orchestra
Vilnius Philharmonic Orchestra
Moldava Symphony Orchestra
The South Pacific Symphony
Adana Symphony Orchestra
Radom Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Catanzaro
Ensemble dell’Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna
Cadiz Chamber Orchestra
Orchestra da Camera delle Marche
Orquesta Sinfonica de Monterrey UANL
Clark Symphony Orchestra
Oltenia Philharmonic Orchestra
“Mihail Jora” Philharmonic Orchestra of Bacau
Chamber Orchestra “I Cameristi di Roma”
Arezzo Symphony Orchestra
Timisoara Philharmonic Orchestra
Ploiesti Philharmonic Orchestra
Orquesta Sinfonica de Aguascalientes
Orquesta Sinfonica de Guanajuato OSUG
Camerata Romania
Cyprus Symphony Orchestra
Sofia Symphony Orchestra
Italian Chamber Orchestra
Catanzaro Symphony Orchestra
Grosseto Symphony Orchestra
I Solisti di Napoli
Brasov Philharmonic Orchestra
Camerata Barocca
Ensemble Accademico Italiano
Messina Chamber Orchestra