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After completing his piano studies with top honors, Alfonso Todisco earned his Bachelor Degree in Conducting cum laude and special mention at the “Giuseppe Martucci” Conservatory of Salerno under the guidance of Maestro Nicola Hansalik Samale, followed by a Master Degree with honors at the “Domenico Cimarosa” Conservatory of Avellino, studying with Maestro Giacomo Sagripanti.
He also obtained a First-Level Master’s Degree in Music Theory and Analysis with highest marks from the University of Calabria, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Conducting from the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien under Maestro Andreas Stoehr. He specialized at the Accademia dei Musici di Parma with Maestro Daniele Agiman.
Todisco is actively engaged in musicological research, with a project dedicated to Domenico Scarlatti that has led him to participate in prestigious international conferences, including the Porto International Symposium (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2019), the 14th Symposium on Spanish Keyboard Music “Diego Fernández” (Almería, 2019), and the XXI Conference on Music Theory and Analysis (GATM) in Salerno (2022).
During the 2019/2020 academic year, he was awarded a research grant at the Conservatory of Salerno for a project entitled “Verso la forma sonata classica”, and collaborated with the musicological journal Il Mondo della Musica, directed by Maria Elisa Tozzi, between 2020 and 2021. In September 2022, he released the album Vivo, produced by Da Vinci Classics, featuring the Serenades for Strings by Dvořák and Tchaikovsky, recorded with the KLK Symphonic Orchestra at the Philharmonic Hall of Lviv.
He currently teaches Music Theory and Analysis at the “Domenico Cimarosa” Conservatory of Avellino.
In recent years, his conducting activity has developed across both operatic and symphonic repertoire, leading him to make his debut in important national and international contexts.
He recently debuted at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse conducting Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro G. Verdi in Salerno for the New Year’s Concert 2025, with I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra in a symphonic tour dedicated to Haydn and Mozart (July 2025), and at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw (February 2026), where he conducted an opera gala alongside Pretty Yende and Artur Ruciński.
He has conducted several orchestras and institutions, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti di Napoli, Orchestra Metropolitana di Bari, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Teatro Goldoni di Livorno, the KLK Symphony Orchestra of Lviv, I Musici di Parma, the Joven Orquestra Leonesa, the Ruse State Opera and the National Opera and Ballet “Oleg Danovski” in Constanța.