Massimiliano Caldi
Born in Milan, Massimiliano Caldi has been the artistic director and principal conductor of the Silesian Chamber Orchestra in Katowice since 2006.
Winner of the first prize at the sixth Grzegorz Fitelberg International Competition for Orchestral Conducting, in Katowice in 1999, at present Caldi works in the fields of both symphonic and opera music, principally in Italy
and Poland.
In Italy he works regularly on the musical programmes at the theatres of Novara, Bologna and Mantua, along with the Valle d'Itria Festival and the Serate Musicali Association of Milan. Amongst Italian orchestras, he has
conducted the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Turin Teatro Regio Orchestra, the Fondazione Arena di Verona Orchestra, the Palermo Teatro Massimo Orchestra, the "I Pomeriggi Musicali" Orchestra, the
Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari, the Fondazione "Arturo Toscanini" Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Giovanile del Piemonte, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, the Orchestra Regionale di Roma e del Lazio, the "Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese" Orchestra and the "Filarmonia Veneta" Orchestra.
In Poland he regularly conducts concerts at the Silesian Philarmonic Concert Hall and with the Silesian Chamber Orchestra he has taken part in some of the most famous Polish festivals, including Lancut and Mikolów. He also conducted the Silesian Chamber Orchestra at the Polish Radio Lutoslawski S1 Hall for the opening concert at the 8th G.Fitelberg International Conducting Competition. In the 2009 New Year's Day concert he conducted the Mazowiecki Theatre Orchestra in the world famous Philarmonic Warsaw music hall. Amongst Polish orchestras, he has also conducted the Polish Radio Symphonic Orchestra of Warsaw, the Katowice Polish Radio National Symphonic Orchestra, the Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra and the Baltic Philarmonic Orchestra where he is invited on a regular basis.
In Europe he has performed in the concert halls of Vienna, Linz, St Petersburg, Amsterdam, Baden-Baden, Bonn, Frankfurt, Mannheim and Szeged. In Israel he has conducted the Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva Orchestra and in Brasil the Santo André Symphonic Orchestra.
The works that he has conducted from 1991 on include Orphée et Eurydice by Gluck, La Bohème by Puccini, Salomé by Strauss, Rigoletto, La Traviata and Trovatore by Verdi, Rapsodia Satanica and Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni, Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini, Norma by Bellini, Carmina Burana by Orff, Il Re Lear e Don Bucefalo by Cagnoni, I Due timidi and La notte di un nevrastenico by Rota, Peter Uncino by Tutino, and Nevebianca by Betta.
Dynamic published the CDs Salom? and Don Bucefalo conducted by Massimiliano Caldi.
In January 2009 Caldi recorded the CD Little Big Music with the Silesian Chamber Orchestra for the recording company DUX with music by Britten, Holst, Lutoslawski and Kilar.