“FABRIZIO FICIUR was born in Trieste, he studied and graduated in his hometown in Violin and Percussion Instruments. In 1991 he obtained a Diploma in Orchestral Conducting with the Bulgarian maestro Ludmill Descev; in the same year he founded, and has since directed, the Camerata Strumentale Italiana chamber orchestra with which, choosing a typical repertoire of 20th century music, he achieved success in Italy and abroad. In 1991 and 1992 he attended the Advanced Courses in Orchestral Conducting at the Rimskij-Korsakov State Conservatory in St. Petersburg, under the guidance of maestro Michail Gheorghievich Kukushkin, obtaining a special mention with his diploma for his interpretation of 20th century Italian symphonic music. From 1992 to 2005 he conducted the Chamber Orchestra of the Teatro dell’Opera Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste with which he participated in the Mittelfest in Cividale and was invited to Budapest to represent Italy. At the head of the Camerata Strumentale Italiana he was invited to the Festival Internacional de Música y Arte in Palma de Mallorca. He has conducted in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Russia, Spain, France, Hungary, Serbia and has also been on the podium of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and the Fairfield Concert Orchestra in the USA and the Wiener Sinfonietta in Austria. A frequent guest at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, he has conducted the Orchestra Regionale della Lombardia and the Guido Cantelli with soloists from La Scala, as well as the Bruno Maderna Orchestra in Ravenna where he conducted artists of the caliber of David Garret and Stephan Milenkovich. At the Teatro dell’Opera in Trieste he conducted “L’Histoire du Soldat” by Strawinsky and the musical fairy tale “Peter and the Wolf” by Prokoffiev; in the opera season of the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco he conducted “I Pagliacci” by Leoncavallo. He has been at the helm of the Belgrade Strings Orchestra, on tour in Mexico and on the podium of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in Cuba. With the Camerata Strumentale Italiana since 2013 he has been regularly invited on tour in the capitals of Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. He has recorded for HMS- France, for RTV- Slovenija and for SONY -Austria.” (taken from the website www.cameratastrumentaleitaliana.com/)
