Paolo Bressan

Conductor

Italian conductor Paolo Bressan is making a name for himself among the top talents in classical music today.
Bressan studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and later – at the Music University “Franz Liszt” in Weimar and also studied piano with Louis Lortie. An Italian, now living in Berlin, Bressan spent much of his career in Germany and is fluent in Italian, German, English, French and Spanish.

Bressan launched his career at the Mecklenburgische Staatstheater Schwerin and Theater Kiel. Paolo Bressan is the founder of the first “Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival Schwerin”, where Symphony Youth Orchestras from Berlin and Hamburg were given a chance to make music together under the patronage of Manuela Schwesig, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs and Youth.
He is a well-known specialist in Italian opera and is often invited to coach in Italian repertoire.

RCCR Artists represents Paola Bressan in Russian-speaking territories and in the Baltics.

Paolo Bressan

Conductor

Italian conductor Paolo Bressan is making a name for himself among the top talents in classical music today.
Bressan studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan and later – at the Music University “Franz Liszt” in Weimar and also studied piano with Louis Lortie. An Italian, now living in Berlin, Bressan spent much of his career in Germany and is fluent in Italian, German, English, French and Spanish.

Bressan launched his career at the Mecklenburgische Staatstheater Schwerin and Theater Kiel. Paolo Bressan is the founder of the first “Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival Schwerin”, where Symphony Youth Orchestras from Berlin and Hamburg were given a chance to make music together under the patronage of Manuela Schwesig, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs and Youth.
He is a well-known specialist in Italian opera and is often invited to coach in Italian repertoire.

RCCR Artists represents Paola Bressan in Russian-speaking territories and in the Baltics.

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“The young Italian conductor, former assistant of Daniele Gatti and Christian Thielemann, proved to be an ecstatic and talented showman who propelled the responsive orchestra through a churning sea of emotions, especially with the intermezzo from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.”- Stefan Ender

Paolo Bressan was educated at the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, Italy, at the Music University Franz Liszt in Weimar and also studied piano with Louis Lortie. His mentors are Daniele Gatti, Christian Thielemann and Emmanuel Villaume. An Italian now living in Berlin, Bressan has spent much of his working career in Germany and is fluent in Italian, German, English, French and Spanish.

Bressan launched his career at the Mecklenburg State Theater Schwerin and Kiel Opera House, where he conducted a wide range of repertoire. He also served as principal conductor and artistic administrator of the city of Schwerin Youth Symphony Orchestra, where he continually broadened his symphonic repertoire. Paolo Bressan was the founder of the first Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival Schwerin, where Symphony Youth Orchestras from Berlin and Hamburg were given the chance to make music together under the patronage of Manuela Schwesig, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs and Youth. He was invited to conduct Der Freischütz in Flensburg, Die Zauberflöte in Karlsruhe, as well as Così fan tutte in Vendome, France.

Paolo Bressan was Christian Thielemann’s assistant at the 2015 Salzburg Easter Festival for Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci starring Jonas Kaufmann, he assisted Kazushi Ono at the Opera de Lyon for The Flying Dutchman and Emmanuel Villaume at the Gran Teatro la Fenice in Venice for Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine. In December 2015, Paolo Bressan assisted Daniele Gatti and prepared the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra in an all Verdi program for a special New Year’s Concert. In January 2017 he worked with the National Orchestra of Spain for a production of Elektra by R. Strauss.

In January 2015, Paolo Bressan made a highly praised, critically acclaimed debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus in concert with Joseph Calleja and the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra. From October until December 2015, Bressan had conducted Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne as well as lyric concerts at the Dallas Opera, where he returned in March 2016. In February 2016, he made his debut in Prague and appeared for the first time at the Théatre-des-Champs-Elysée in Paris with the PFK Philharmonia Prague and tenor Bryan Hymel. In October 2016 he did his debut in South America at the National Auditorium of Mexico City with tenor Javier Camarena and the Orchestra of Mineria.

In September 2015, Paolo Bressan served as an artistic advisor for a CD recording of Diana Damrau performing in studio with the Orchestra de l’Opera de Lyon, works of G. Meyerbeer. In November 2016 he was an artistic advisor for the CD recording Verismo with Angela Gheorghiu. He is founder and an artistic director of LacMus Festival, which took place for the first time in summer 2017.

In summer 2018 he founded the LacMus Festival Ensemble with members, among others, from the Berliner Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony and the RAI Italian National Orchestra. In 2018/19 season Paolo Bressan conducted again at the Dallas Opera and worked for the first time for the Tokyo Spring Festival. Also, he made a high acclaimed debut at the Croatian National Opera in Rijeka with Romeo et Juliette by Gounod. Paolo Bressan made his debut in Madrid with the Spanish National Orchestra and he worked with Valery Gergiev at the Salzburg Festival for a new production of Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi. December 2019 to February 2020 he did his debut at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia, conducting Pagliacci, Gianni Schicchi, L’Elisir d’amore and Così fan tutte.