Sebastiano de Salvo

Sebastiano de Salvo, born in 1998, graduated with honours from the Conservatory of Trento in Piano, and in Composition.
In 2016, he began studying conducting with Giancarlo Guarino, while attending various masterclasses with Isaac Karabtchevsky, Lior Shambadal, Vittorio Parisi, Julien Salemkour and Sandro Gorli.
He is currently attending Master’s courses in composition with Arnulf Herrmann and conducting with Manuel Nawri at the ‘HfM Saar’ in Germany.
In 2017, he began a collaboration with the Orchestra Euroregionale Alpenclassica, with which he performed numerous concerts between Italy and Austria, sharing the stage with soloists such as Yuri Revich, Giuseppe Andaloro and Aron Chiesa. With the same orchestra, he participated in three editions of the Euregio Saxophone Festival, where he had the opportunity to accompany world-class saxophonists such as Vincent David, Federico Mondelci, Pawel Gusnar, Mario Marzi and many others.
Since 2018, he has been principal conductor of the Euthaleia Orchestra, with which he has conducted numerous concerts in chamber and symphonic ensembles. Highlights include his collaboration with pianist Calogero Di Liberto and the production of Mozart’s Requiem at the Teatro Bibiena in Mantua on the occasion of the second edition of the ‘E. Dara’ prize awarded to Leo Nucci.
In November 2022, he conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra ‘Settenovecento’ in the production ‘Frammenti’, conceived by the Rovereto Philharmonic in collaboration with Elisabetta Garilli’s atelier, In 2023, ‘Frammenti’ was selected as a ‘special project 2023’ by the Ministry of Culture, thus giving rise to a tour in important cities in Northern Italy.
In December 2023, he took the podium of the Camerata musicale ‘Città di Arco’ to conduct W.A. Mozart’s ‘Vespri Solenni del Confessore’ for Solo, Choir and Orchestra.
In the same month he also had the opportunity to conduct in concert the “Ensemble für Neue Musik der HfM Karlsruhe”.
For musical theatre, he premiered ‘I vestiti nuovi dell’imperatore’, a one-act opera by composer Paolo Orlandi, with stage direction by Gabriella Medetti, and conducted “Die Dreigroschenoper”
by K. Weill, with stage direction by Elena Marino.
As a composer, he has seen his music performed in Italy and abroad by ensembles and musicians such as “MP Saxophone quartet”, “Agorart Ensemble”, “MotoContrario Ensemble” and Nathan Plante, within musical contexts such as the “Mondi Sonori Festival”, the “Religion Today film festival” and the Stiftung St. Matthäus in Berlin.
In August 2020 his composition Fanfara, for wind quartet, won one of the two prizes at the musical competition “The sound of the Alps”, on over forty competitors from Austria, Germany, Swiss and Italy. He also recently won the special prize in the ‘Giancarlo Facchinetti’ International Conducting Competition as the youngest semi-finalist.