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.

Upcoming conducting engagements 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 ORT-Orchestra della Toscana, the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania and the Orchestra della Fondazione Arena di Verona.

January 2025