Carlo Tenan

Carlo Tenan holds diplomas in conducting, piano, oboe, composition and electronic music and began his conducting career as assistant on symphonic and opera productions with Antonio Pappano, Mstislav Rostropovitch and Lorin Maazel. Tenan has conducted orchestras including the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tokyo Philharmonic, Konzerthaus Berlin, the Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Oldenburg, Bologna Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Mannheim, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, and Tirol Symphony Innsbruck.

In 2010 he made his debut at the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg conducting the New Year’s concert. His opera successes are Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Don Giovanni, Puccini’s Tosca and La Bohème. Notable concerts include a double engagement at the Berlin Konzerthaus as conductor and composer, numerous productions at the Auditorio Adela Reta in Montevideo (Verdi's Requiem, Don Giovanni), concerts with Barbara Frittoli and the Tokyo Philharmonic, his debut at the Rossini Opera Festival with Ewa Podleś, numerous tours with Uri Caine and more recently with Paolo Fresu, the direction of the Italian première of Maxwell Davies' The Turn of the Tide with Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Madama Butterfly at the Kyoto Opera Festival, his debut at the International MITO Festival and the Decca recording with Juan Diego Flórez. At the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Two new productions at Teatro Comunale di Bologna Madama Butterfly (2015) and Il Barbiere di Siviglia (2016) received critical acclaim.

In 2017, he became music director of the Wunderkammer Orchestra, a constantly evolving group with musical figures from major European orchestras. He is also active as a composer: a prize-winner at the ‘UnTwelve Composition Competition’ (Chicago, 2015), a finalist at the ‘Bangor Dylan Thomas Prize for electroacoustic composition’ (2014), and his scores have received awards at various international competitions. His work 4.0 for brass sextet was performed and recorded by the WonderBrass ensemble musicians from Accademia Nazionale S.Cecilia, Gewandhaus Leipzig and the first trumpet of the Canadian Brass quintet.