Brazilian born conductor John Neschling comes from a Viennese musician’s family. Grand nephew of composer Arnold Schoenberg and conductor Arthur Bodanzky, he studied in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky and attended classes with Leonard Bernstein and Bruno Maderna in Europe and in the USA. He collaborated with many orchestras such as Vienna Symphony, London Symphony, Tonhalle Zürich, Warsaw Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Santa Cecilia in Rome, Residenz in the Hague.As opera conductor he has led productions in opera houses all over the world and he acted as Musical Director at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, the Opera in St. Gallen in Switzerland, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and the Orchestre National de Bordeaux in France and in his home country he directed both Opera Houses of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.