Marco Angius has conducted orchestras such as the Tokyo Philharmonic, Ensemble Intercontemporain, London Sinfonietta, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy, Orchestre de Lorraine, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Muziekgebouw/Bimhuis in Amsterdam, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, LaToscanini di Parma, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, ORT-Orchestra della Toscana, I Pomeriggi Musicali.

Constantly present at major European contemporary music festivals, in 2016 he opened the Teatro La Fenice Season with Aquagranda by Filippo Perocco (2017 Abbiati Prize) and the following year the Venice Music Biennale with Stockhausen's Inori. He conducted Janáček's Káťa Kabanová at the Teatro Regio di Torino under the direction of Robert Carsen and Luigi Nono's Prometeo in the new critical edition at the Teatro Regio di Parma, Dusapin's Medeamaterial at the Comunale di Bologna (Premio Abbiati 2018), Hindemith's Sancta Susanna and Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana at the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari. At the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, he conducted Alessandro Solbiati's Il suono giallo (Abbiati Prize 2016), Wolfgang Rihm's Jakob Lenz, Bruno Maderna's Don Perlimplin and Sciarrino's Luci mie traditrici under the direction of Jürgen Flimm. In 2018, he opened the Maggio Fiorentino season at the Florence Opera House with Puccini's Le Villi. With the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, he has conducted in most of the editions of RAI Nuova Musica from 2007 to the present, also performing with the orchestra on an important tour in Russia in 2015.

His most recent productions include Pelléas et Mélisande at the Teatro Regio di Parma with LaToscanini; Sciarrino's Aspern at the Teatro La Fenice; Janáček's La volpe astuta, Luca Mosca's L'Italia del destino and Silvia Colasanti's La metamorfosi at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Hosokawa's Hanjo with the Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento; Malipiero's Ecuba at the Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza; Mahler's Symphony no. 6 by Mahler with the Arena di Verona Orchestra at the Auditorium in Milan, as part of the Mahler Festival. Formerly principal conductor of the Ensemble Bernasconi of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala since 2011, since 2015 he has been the musical and artistic director of the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, with which he has conducted the complete Symphonies of Beethoven and Schubert and recorded numerous discs with music ranging from Bach (Die Kunst der Fuge) to Brahms, Bruckner, Wagner up to contemporary composers such as Donatoni (Abyss), Sciarrino (Altri volti e nuovi for Decca, Musiche per il "Paradiso" di Dante), Castiglioni (Quodlibet), Dallapiccola (An Mathilde), Henze (Reinventions), Manzoni (Parole da Beckett - Abbiati Prize 2023); Nono's Prometeo in Venice for the Biennale Asac; the diptych The Seven Deadly Sins by Weil / Dido & Aeneas by Purcell for the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia.

Future projects include: the diptych Il Castello del Duca Barbablù by Bartók / La porta divisoria by Carpi at the Teatro Verdi di Trieste; the world premiere of Voce del silenzio by Solbiati at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna; symphonic concerts with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, the Ensemble Bernasconi of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, the Krakow Philharmonic and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana.

His extensive discography of over thirty albums includes works by Sciarrino (Luci mie traditrici, Cantare con silenzio, Le stagioni artificiali, Studi per l'intonazione del mare), Nono (Risonanze erranti and Prometeo), Schoenberg (Pierrot lunaire), Battistelli (L'imbalsamatore), Adámek (with the Ensemble Intercontemporain for Wergo). In 2007 he was awarded the Amadeus Prize for Mixtim by Ivan Fedele, a composer whose complete works for violin and orchestra he recorded with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, while in 2023 he received the Abbiati Prize for the album Parole da Beckett, with music by Giacomo Manzoni. Three books have been published: Riverberazioni (Il Poligrafo, 2022), Come avvicinare il silenzio (Il Poligrafo, 2020), Del suono estremo (Aracne, 2014).

March 2024