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Lorenzo Passerini was born in Morbegno in 1991. He graduated with honours in trombone at Como Conservatory in 2009. He then took a masters degree at Aosta Conservatory, graduating in 2014 with full honours again. As a trombonist, he has toured worldwide under the baton of famous conductors such as John Axelrod, Andrey Boreyko, Fabio Luisi and Riccardo Muti.
At the same time as starting his career as a trombonist, he began studies in conducting in 2010 with Ennio Nicotra. He also undertook tuition from John Axelrod, Massimiliano Caldi, Gilberto Serembe, Pietro Mianiti, Oleg Caetani and Antonio Eros Negri.
He began his conducting career in December 2011 with Orchestra Antonio Vivaldi, which he founded. He has also had new works dedicated to him by contemporary composers Piergiorgio Ratti, Antonio Eros Negri and Andrea Battistoni.
Lorenzo Passerini has also worked with classical opera; he conducted Don Pasquale in 2013, Elisir d’amore in 2014, La Traviata in 2015, Il barbiere di Siviglia and La serva padrona in 2016, La sonnambula in 2017, Turandot and Rigoletto in 2018.
2016 saw his debut as guest director of ICO Orchestra Magna Grecia and Orchestra Regionale Filarmonia Veneta for the 28th Iris Adami Corradetti International Opera Competition.
In 2017 he conducted the Milan’s Giuseppe Verdi Symphonic Orchestra, Orchestra Fondazione Arena of Verona, Regional Tuscanian Orchestra, Romanian National Opera Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra of Grosseto, Symphonic Orchestra of Sanremo, Orchestra CamerataVienna, Mexico State Orchestra and Milano Chamber Orchestra.
In January 2017 he assisted Oleg Caetani in his production of Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth at Helsinki Opera Theatre.
Since 2015 he has worked with Maestro Nicola Luisotti in some of the most important European theatres, such as Royal Opera House in London, Teatro Real in Madrid and Teatro Alla Scala in Milan. In September 2018 he has assisted Luisotti in his production of Turandot in Teatro Real in Madrid, which lasted until the 30th of December 2018.
In 2018 he conducted again Orchestra Fondazione Arena and he debuted with Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Bari Metropolitan Symphonic Orchestra and DITTO Orchestra during his Korean tournée with soprano Sumi Jo.
Since 2011 has been the artistic and musical director of Orchestra Antonio Vivaldi. Since 2017 he has been musical director of Associazione culturale “Amici della musica di Sondalo”, for whom he programmes the symphonic seasons at Teatro Sociale in Sondrio.
In the near future he will conduct a Gala concert in Moscow with soprano Nadine Sierra, and during Ravello Festival he will conduct the Orchestra Sinfonica Salernitana “Giuseppe Verdi”. He then will work at the Opera Theatre in Warsaw in two occasions: Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (in november 2019) and Luigi Cherubini's Medea (in april 2020). In dicember 2019 he will conduct three Gala concerts with tenor Francesco Demuro at the Opera Theatre in Sassari. In january 2020 he will be at the Opera Theatre of Sydney conducting Charles Gounod's Faust.