Conductor – Vocal Coach – Composer

About the Author

Nicolas Giusti

EDUCATION

He studied with Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Carlo Maria Giulini, Mario Gusella e Peter Maag (Conducting); Aldo Clementi and Franco Donatoni (Composition); Antonio Tonini (Lyrical Theater – Assistant of maestro Arturo Toscanini of the Teatro alla Scala di Milano), with whom he has collaborated, as assistant for seven years.
He is a winner of numerous contests: as pianist: Galatina and Messina contest; as conductor: Treviso Opera House; as a coach conductor: Alessandria Laboratorio Lirico.

OPERA SINGERS WITH WHOM HE WORKED

He worked with many international singers: Carlos Almaguer Villalobos, June Anderson, Nazareno Antinori, Alfonso Antoniozzi, Mauro Augustini, Monica Bacelli, Bruna Baglioni, Lando Bartolini, Rockwell Blake, Cecilia Bartoli, Stefania Bonfadelli, Franco Bonisolli, Robert Breault, Renato Bruson, Gianfranco Cecchele, Luca Canonici, Silvano Carroli, Giovanna Casolla, Paolo Coni, Fiorenza Cossotto, Alberto Cupido, Enzo Dara, Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, Mariella Devia, Jorge Vaz De Carvalho, Laura Claycomb, Placido Domingo, Maria Dragoni, Martine Dupuy, Francesco Ellero D’Artegna, Ignacio Encinas, Alida Ferrarini, Giovanni Furlanetto, Alberto Gazale, Christine Goerke, Piero Giuliacci, Emily Golden, Dalmacio Gonzales, Rita Gorr, Leila Guimaraes, Marcello Lippi, Paola Marrocu, William Matteuzzi, Kathleen McCalla, Chris Merritt, Sara Mingardo, Paolo Montarsolo, Sarah M’Punga, Leo Nucci, Gianfranco Pastine, Francesca Patané, Luciano Pavarotti, Francesco Piccoli, Katya Ricciarelli, Stefano R. Miliani, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Michela Sburlati, Martina Serafin, Gérard Serkoyan, Luciana Serra, Diana Soviero, Giorgio Surjan, Giuseppe Taddei

He worked with other great personalities (conductors, directors, producers, musicologists, scholars) such as: Spiros Argiris, Paola Bidinelli, Bruno Campanella, Robert Carsen, Rodolfo Celletti, Carlo Felice Cillario, Roberto De Simone, Gabriele Ferro, Sergio Fontana, Romano Gandolfi, Angelo Giovagnoli, Armin Jordan (assistent), Peter Maag (assistent), Mario Melani, GianCarlo Menotti, Riccardo Muti, Laura Padellaro, Patricia Panton, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Lamberto Pugelli, John Pritchard (assistent), Virginio Puecher, Donato Renzetti, Maurizio Scaparro, Sergio Segalini, Luciano Silvestri, Luigi Squarzina, Enrico Stinchelli, Walter Valeri, Lawrence Vincent, Gregorio Zappi, Alberto Zedda, Franco Zeffirelli, Michelangelo Zurletti and many others.

TEACHING

He has been a Full Time Professor (vocal coach) for 23 years at Ministero dell’Università “Luisa D’Annunzio” di Pescara, Italy (University of Pescara – Music Departement). He is currently Adjunct Faculty at BYU University (UT) and at UVU University (UT). During his career, he has also taught various master courses throughout Europe.
In 2011, the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (Belgium) invited him to teach a Master class on Italian Opera. He has been a professor at many Academies of lyrical improvement. He worked along side of the music critic Sergio Segalini (Accademia d’Arte Lirica di Osimo) and with the family of the great tenor Mario del Monaco (Accademia di Cagli – Fondazione Mario del Monaco), of the which he has been the musical director.

OPERA SINGERS WHO HAVE STUDIED AND WORKED WITH HIM

Many famous international vocal artists studied operatic repertoire with him: Eldar Alyev, Kostiantyn Andreiev, Carlo Barricelli, Rose-Antoinette Bellino, Eleni Calenos, Tiziana Caminiti, Ivan Choupenitch, Christopher Clayton, Joshua Collier, Andrea Concetti, José Corvelo, Ginger Costa-Jackson, Marina Costa-Jackson, Miriam Costa Jackson, Scilla Cristiano, Matthew Curran, France Dariz, Leonardo De Lisi, Giovanna Donadini, Marilyne Fallot, Paulo Ferreira, Ursula Ferri, Elena Gabouri, Bridgette Gan, Eva Garayova, Piero Guarnera, Alessandro Guerzoni, Emidio Guidotti, Kyu Won Han, Christopher Holmes, Isaac Hurtado, Eliza Kruszczynska, Ana Maria Labin, Tyler Nelson, Joao Oliveira, Elena Sancho Pereg, Gabriel Preisser, Diane Thueson Reich, Kenneth Roberson, Martina Serafin, Brian Stucki, Iano Tamar, Ayhan Ustuk, Aydin Ustuk, Vittorio Vitelli, Mojca Vedernjac, Jennifer Welch Babidge, Sergey Zadvorny, etc.
He collaborated with the musicologist Enrico Stinchelli for RAI RadioTelevisioneItaliana (Italian main TV station) in Rome for the program: “La Barcaccia”, where he recorded various broadcasting alongside of famous vocal artists such as Franco Bonisolli, Renato Bruson, Gianfranco Cecchele, Maria Dragoni, Bruna Baglioni.

ORCHESTRAS CONDUCTED

He conductet many Orchestra such as:
The RTSI Orchestra, (Switzerland), The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova (Moldova), The National Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague (Czech Republic), The Opera House Orchestra of Izmir (Turkey), The AMIT Orchestra of Roma (Italy), Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia (Italy), The Oporto National Orchestra (Portugal), The Plovdiv Symphonic Opera House Orchestra (Bulgaria), The Sofia Opera House Orchestra (Bulgaria), The Mostar State Orchestra (Bosnia), The Bari Symphonic Orchestra (Italy), The Giuseppe Tartini Philharmonic Orchestra (Italy), The Costanza Opera House Orchestra (Romania), The Volgograd Russian Philarmonic Orchestra (Russia), The Philharmonic Orchestra of “Settimana Mozartiana” (Italy), The Choir and Orchestra of Luis Mariano (Spain), The Toronto Chamber Orchestra (Canada), The Rome Philarmonic Orchestra (Italy), The Douai Philarmonic Orchestra (France), The Philarmonia Veneta Orchestra (Italy), The Nova Amadeus Orchestra (Italy), The Kiev Symphony Orchestra (Ukraine), The “G.Paisiello” Chamber Orchestra (Italy), The Utah Lyric Opera Orchestra (USA), The San Remo Chamber Ensemble (Italy), Utah Opera Festival (USA), Winter Opera St. Louis Orchestra (USA) . He was invited by his great journalist friend Gregorio Zappi of RAI, to be the Conductor of the Rome Symphonic Orchestra, at the Jubilee of Political World Leaders at the Concert at Magna hall University “La Sapienza” of Rome, transmitted by TV RAIUNO. (The Main television station of Italy).

Several official networks have dedicated ample airtime to his compositions and his performances: RAI, BBC, RTSI of Switzerland, channel one of Turkish Television, TBE of Spain, and others including Portuguese, French, and German television, BYU Radio Highway 89.

He worked in many Opera houses such as: Montecarlo Opera House (France), Opera House La Scala (Milan, Italy), Spoleto Festival Opera House (Italy), Rossini Opera Festival (Italy), Savona Opera House (Italy), Colyseum Oporto Opera House (Portugal), Paris Opera House (France), Douai Opera House (France), Aix- les-bains Opera House (France), Cannes Opera House (France), Aspendos Festival (Turkey), Izmir Opera House State (Turkey), Irun Opera House (Spain), Avenches Festival (Switzerland), Otranto Festival (Italy), Verdi Opera House (Padova, Italy), Paisiello Opera House (Lecce, Italy), Festival Ars and Music (Solothurn, Switzerland), Arena Lorelay Opera (Germany),

He conducted almost 100 opera from Le Nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Idomeneo, La clemenza di Tito, Die Zauberflute by W.A.Mozart; Norma, Sonnambula, Capuleti e Montecchi by V. Bellini; Carmen by Bizet; Don Pasquale, Anna Bolena, Elisir d’amor, Lucia di Lammermoor by G. Donizetti; La
Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, Tabarro by G. Puccini; Pagliacci by R. Leoncavallo; Cavalleria Rusticana by P. Mascagni until The Consul by GianCarlo Menotti.

COURSES TAUGHT

In May 2013, he was invited as a professor to teach a workshop on the Italian Opera at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Also, in that same year, he was invited by the Utah Lyric Opera to conduct Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini and by the Utah Vocal Arts Academy for a workshop on Italian Opera. In summer 2014 he will conduct Carmen by Georges Bizet for the Utah Lyric Opera. In August 2014 he was invited as a professor (Vocal Coach) to teach on the Fall opera program “Nozze di Figaro” at Brigham Young University. In winter 2015 he conducted The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini for the Utah Lyric Opera. In summer 2016 he conducted Nozze di Figaro for the Utah Vocal Arts Academy.
He teached in others Masterclasses: Westminster College, UVU (Utah Valley University), BootCamp Winter Opera S Louis, NEC (New England Conservatory) In 2016 he conducted “Così fan tutte” by W.A.Mozart in Winter Opera S. Louis (Missouri). He conducted “Le nozze di Figaro” by W.A.Mozart in UVAA (Utah Vocal Arts Academy) with Anthony Laciura as director, Tosca by Puccini in Opera Idaho, 2017; Magic Flute in UVU (Utah Valley University), 2017; Don Giovanni by Mozart in UVAA (Utah Vocal Arts Academy) with Anthony Laciura as director, Frank Lopardo and Debora Voight as vocal teachers; Madama Butterfly by Puccini in Utah Opera Festival 2017; Roméo et Juliette by Gounod in UVU University 2018.

VARIOUS

He conducted and played Recitativi the Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini in Utah Opera Festival 2018, Così fan tutte by Mozart and Ariadne auf Naxos by R. Strauss in UVAA 2018; Rigoletto by Verdi 2018, and he conducted Così fan tutte by Mozart and La Bohème by Puccini in Opera Vermont 2018.
In 2019 he conducted Die Fledermaus by J. Strauss in UVU University, Le nozze di Figaro in Utah Opera Festival. Opera Orlando (FL) invited him to conduct Le Nozze di Figaro. He conducted La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi in UVU in 2020
His “Joyful” recent CD (Shadow Mountain Records – 2019) was 1° position and 30 weeks on the Classical Bildboard.

In 2022 he conducted La Bohème by G. Puccini in UVU University; Magic Flute by W.A.Mozart in Utah Festival Opera 2022.

In 2023 he conducted Aida by G. Verdi in Utah Festival Opera; Cendrillon by J. Massenet and Così fan tutte by W. A. Mozart in Utah Valley Operafest

He is the Music Director and Principal Conductor of Utah Valley Operafest.

He is currently Full Professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee in the School of Opera Studio

Is planned in the near future to conduct an important Oratorio “Dio dell’alleanza” by David Alagna (Music, Nicolas Giusti: Orchestration).