Rico saccani biography
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- The Italian conductor Rico Saccani won top prize in the Herbert von Karajan International Conducting Competition in Berlin in 1984.
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The Italian conductor Rico Saccani won top prize in the Herbert von Karajan International Conducting Competition in Berlin in 1984. Before that he studied at the Summer Academy at Fontainebleau where he worked with legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. He performed over 300 piano recitals from 1974–1978 and appeared as soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London Royal Philharmonic and other leading international Orchestras. He graduated with honors from the Graduate program at the University of Michigan and participated in the famous Tanglewood Summer Academy for young conductors where he worked with Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn, Seizi Ozawa and Gustav Meier. It was during a seven-year apprentice internship with Italian conductor Giuseppe Patane, that Saccani won top prize in the 1984 Herbert von Karajan International Conducting Competition in Berlin. Saccani was immediately engaged to perform with the Berlin and Stuttgart Radio Orchestras, the Royal Danish Philharmonic and the Spoleto Festival. His opera debut came in 1985 in Verdi’s Un
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Rico Saccani (born April 16, 1952) is a conductor who served as Music Director/Artistic Adviser of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra between 1996 and 2005 and was principal guest conductor of the Hungarian State Opera from 1985 to 2005.
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