Nil Venditti, conductor
Nil Verditti, a celebrated representative of a new generation of women on the podium, breaks down seemingly insurmountable barriers with fervent energy. The Swiss-educated daughter of a Turkish mother and a Roman father, she weaves together the musical languages of the South and the North, the audience and the orchestra, the great standard works and the world premieres. In the 2024/25 season, she will be the first guest conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia in Newcastle upon Tyne.
About the artist
from the classical repertoire to Turkish composers
Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti is fast establishing relationships with important orchestras and ensembles around the world including the Royal Northern Sinfonia, of which she is the Principal Guest Conductor starting 2024/25 season.
The 2024/25 season sees her making debuts with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Arctic Philharmonic and Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic orchestras, as well as orchestras in Aalborg, Tenerife, Baleares, Wuppertal and Bochum. She performs twice with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and returns to the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra for touring concerts at the Wiener Musikverein and in Bregenz, as well as BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Helsingborg Symphony, Hamburger Symphoniker and Real Filharmonia de Galicia.
In the 2023/24 season, Venditti made debuts with the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic and Hiroshima Symphony orchestras and Royal Swedish Opera for a new production of Don Giovanni, among others. She returned to BBC National Orchestra of Wales including her BBC Proms debut, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia, as well as Stuttgart Opera for a production of Rigoletto. She also made her debut at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.
Venditti combines a strong affinity for classical/early Romantic repertoire with a particular interest in Turkish and Italian composers. She continues to excel in the operatic genre, having conducted operas from Mozart’s Così fan tutte to Peter Maxwell-Davies’ The Lighthouse.
Venditti trained in conducting at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste under the guidance of Professor Johannes Schlaefli, as well as attending the Conducting Academy associated with the Pärnu Music Festival under Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi and Leonid Grin. In Italy, she graduated in cello performance with Francesco Pepicelli.
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