Andrea Fornaciari

His music education began in Rome, Italy, his native city, at Santa Cecilia Conservatory, then continued at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, Austria, under the renowned conducting pedagogue Karl Österreicher. He then graduated under Leopold Hager.

He was appointed assistant to M° Giuseppe Sinopoli and took part in several opera productions, among which: Teatro alla Scala, Dresden Opera, Taormina Festival. This intense collaboration with the world-famous Venetian composer allowed him to develop the post-romantic (Wagner, Mahler, Bruckner) as well as the modern and contemporary repertoires.

He has worked as a guest conductor with established orchestras including: Luxembourg Philharmonic, Toscanini Philharmonic, N. Ö. Tonkünstler Orchester-Wien, Attergau Institut Orchestra, Progetto Mozart Orchestra, Filharmonie Bohuslav Martinu, Soloists of Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Kunliga Operan Stockholm, Bergslagens Kammarsynfoniker, Philharmonia Mediterranea, Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, Orchestra da camera di S. Giorgio, Kiev Symphonic State Orchestra, Orchestra Regionale dell’Emilia-Romagna, Benedetto Marcello Orchestra, State Orchestra Žilina, ORT Orchestra della Toscana and many more.

He had collaborations with significant soloists like Daniel Müller-Schott, Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Pavel Berman, Mårton Larsson, Stefan Milencovich, Andrea Oliva, Karel Kosarek, Håkan Bjorkman, Andrea Bacchetti as well as Pietro de Maria, Carl Wolf, Jensen Sinham, Silja Schindler, Erika Colon and others.