Riccardo Bisatti is Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica
G. Rossini of Pesaro from 2023.
Born in Novara in 2000, Riccardo Bisatti graduated in piano with top
marks and cum laude from the Conservatorio “G. Cantelli” in Novara with
Alessandro Commellato and Renato Principe, also specializing in fortepiano
and harpsichord. He furthers his conducting studies at the Conservatorio
“G. Verdi” in Milan under the guidance of Daniele Agiman, after having
studied with Matteo Beltrami in Novara.
He has participated in numerous prestigious masterclasses, both in piano
and conducting, held by Fabio Luisi, Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Alexei
Lubimov, Daniele Agiman, Jeffrey Swann, Roberto Prosseda, Maurizio
Baglini, Pietro De Maria, Emilia Fadini, Marc Bouchkov. He also received a
scholarship from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein.
Selected by Divertimento Ensemble, he had the occasion to work with
composers Luca Mosca, Marco Di Bari, Stefano Gervasoni and Alessandro
Solbiati. He is a member of Ulysses Network, a European circuit for the
dissemination of contemporary music.
Riccardo has taken part in numerous international competitions, winning
several prizes: Prize of excellence at the VII Concours international de
piano junior in Orléans, the Serbian National Theatre - Novi Sad Prize at
the IX International Competition for Opera Conductors “Luigi Mancinelli”
and the First Prize (Conducting Section) of the Italian “Prize of the
Arts”.
He has performed and conducted for important festivals and associations,
including: Lille Piano Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Milano
Classica, Piano City Milano (Museo del Teatro alla Scala), Fazioli Milan,
Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Festival Brin d’herbe Orléans, Istituto
italiano di cultura di Oslo, Società dei concerti di Milano, Bologna
Modern. His passion for chamber music has led him to play with important
soloists of the Berliner Philarmoniker, the London Symphony Orchestra, the
Bayerisches Staatsorchester and the Staatskapelle Berlin. He founded the
“Goldberg Piano Trio” with Anna Molinari (violin) and Lucia Molinari
(cello) and the “Ensemble Iri da Iri”, with the aim of researching and
performing the larger chamber music repertoire with a particular focus on
the Italian 20th century.
At 18, Riccardo made his conducting debut with Pergolesi’s La serva
padrona. He subsequently conducted Mozart’s Bastien und
Bastienne, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Verdi’s La
Traviata (Teatro Coccia Novara), P. Viardot’s Cendrillon
(Teatro dell’Opera Giocosa Savona), A. Mannucci’s Kiki de Montparnasse
(first Italian performance at the Novara Conservatoire). In 2021 he
conducted Giovanni Sollima’s Acquaprofonda in an AsLiCo production
which toured many cities (Como, Cremona, Reggio Emilia, Lugano, Milan,
Messina), winning the 2022 Abbiati Prize “Filippo Siebaneck”. In 2022, he
conducted Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire in Novara and Milan and a
production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola for AsLiCo OperaDomani in
Como, Modena, Fermo, Ascoli Piceno and Fano.
In autumn 2022 he made a sensational debut on the podium of I Pomeriggi
Musicali Orchestra conducting the Don Giovanni production by Mario
Martone for OperaLombardia (Como, Pavia, Brescia and Cremona), a triumph
which has led critics to speak of him as one of the best conducting
discoveries of recent years. Subsequently he has been invited to hold a
position of conductor in residence at the Teatro Regio in Turin, where he
is in charge of the musical guidance of the young artist ensemble and
conducts rehearsals and performances of Il Barbiere di Siviglia and
La fille du regiment. As part of this engagement, he is also
entrusted with the musical direction of the new productions of Adès’ Powder
her face and Mozart’s Bastien und Bastienne.
His most recent engagements include concerts with the Orchestra Sinfonica
G. Rossini, the Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, the ORT-Orchestra
della Toscana, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Orchestra
Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan,
the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, the Orchestra of the
Milan and Turin Conservatoires at the MiTo Festival, and with the Prague
Philharmonia in Prague. He also conducted new productions of Offenbach’s Un
mari à la porte at the Teatro Regio in Turin and Ullmann’s Der
Kaiser von Atlantis with the Fondazione Arena di Verona; Le
bourgeois gentilhomme by Strauss with Elio and the Benevento
Philharmonic Orchestra; Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro del
Maggio in Florence; and a new production of La Bohème for
OperaLombardia.
Engagement of the past season include: La bohème at
the Teatro Regio di Parma and at the Teatro Valli di Reggio Emilia, La
Fille du régiment at the Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Il Barbiere
di Siviglia at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Don Pasquale at
the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania and concerts with the Orchestra
Sinfonica G. Rossini, the ORT-Orchestra della Toscana, the Orchestra
Sinfonica di Milano, the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania,
the Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona and the Prague
Philharmonia.
Among the engagements for the 2025-26 season are: Il barbiere di
Siviglia at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Don Pasquale at
the Teatro Bellini in Catania; Die Zauberflöte in Stuttgart and
Lille; a gala concert at the Rudolfinum in Prague; and symphonic concerts
with the Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona and the Fondazione
Haydn Bolzano and Trento.
August 2025