Lorenzo Fratini

Lorenzo Fratini was born in Prato in 1973 and studied at the Conservatories of Bologna, Ferrara, Florence and Milan. He holds diplomas in composition, polyphonic vocal composition, choral music and choral conducting, wind-band instrumentation and the clarinet. He has also attended courses in orchestral conducting with Gustav Kuhn, Gianluigi Gelmetti and Piero Bellugi as well as choral conducting with Roberto Gabbiani, Fabio Lombardo, Andrew Lawrence-King and Diego Fasolis. As an orchestral conductor he has appeared with the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, the Bucharest Radio Orchestra and the orchestras of the Romanian National Opera in Cluj-Napoca, the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Teatro Verdi in Trieste and the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. After a brief appointment at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Lorenzo Fratini was the chorus master at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste between 2004 and 2010, before holding a similar appointment at Bologna’s Teatro Comunale from January 2011 to December 2012, conducting the company’s orchestra and chorus in performances of Grieg’s Peer Gynt and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the 2011 Bologna Estate summer festival. Invitations have taken him on several occasions to the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and twice to the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, where he worked on a production of Mosè in Egitto that won a Premio Abbiati. Lorenzo Fratini has worked with numerous eminent conductors, including Zubin Mehta, Daniel Oren, Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Wayne Marshall, Nello Santi, Pinchas Steinberg, Nicola Luisotti, Fabio Luisi, Claudio Abbado, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Harding, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Riccardo Muti. He has conducted the world premieres of new works by Fabio Vacchi, Giampaolo Coral, Randall Meyers, Tan Dun and Arvo Pärt. He has been chorus master of the Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino since 2013.