Massimo Spadano was born in Lanciano and became a pupil of Viktor Liberman and Philippe Hirschhorn. He has been the leader of the Sinfónica de Galicia since 1994 and has been a guest concertmaster for the Orchestra Mozart, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and I Musici, as well as Hespèrion XXI, Ensemble Zefiro and La Chambre Philharmonique. Massimo Spadano has also been a member of the Mullova Ensemble and the Katia and Marielle Labèque Ensemble, as well as being an active conductor, studying with Donato Renzetti.