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Katya Walker-Arnott
Morgan Bair
Jennyfer Fouani
“The young Italo-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti is very comfortable conducting with sobriety, calm strength and efficiency our excellent National Orchestra Bordeaux Aquitaine.”
(Bordeaux Gazette, April 2022)
Italo-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti is fast establishing relationships with important orchestras and ensembles around the world. Highlights from recent seasons include collaborations with Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre/Opera National Bordeaux Aquitane, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Camerata Salzburg, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Irish National Opera, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona as well as Orchestra della Toscana, of which she was Principal Guest Conductor from June 2020 until May 2022.
In the 2022/23 season, Venditti returns to conduct Orchestre de Pau, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and Transylvania State Philharmonic. She also makes debuts with Orchestra of Paris Opera, Orchestre de Mulhouse and Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire in France; Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the orchestra of Staatstheater Stuttgart and Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany; Castilla y Leon Symphony, Asturias Symphony, Galicia Royal Philharmonic and Extremadura Orchestras in Spain; Tonhalle-Orchester and Sinfonieorchester Basel in Switzerland; Helsingborg Symphony, Helsinki Chamber Orchestra and Dalarna Sinfonietta in the Nordics; BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Royal Northern Sinfonia in the UK; and Belgrade Philharmonic in Serbia. In Turkey, she collaborates with ASSO Izmir, Istanbul State Symphony, Antalya State Symphony and Izmir State Symphony Orchestras. Venditti also makes her US debut in spring 2023 with SFCM Orchestra in San Francisco.

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With a strong affinity for Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Beethoven, Venditti’s repertoire is increasingly expanding to include Brahms, Schumann, Dvořák, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Debussy among others. Her interest in contemporary programming has in recent seasons seen her focus on the works of Fazil Say (whose fifth Symphony she will premiere at the Bremen Musikfest), Peter Maxwell-Davies, Fabien Waksman, Lepo Sumera, Caroline Shaw and Nicola Campogrande. She continues to excel in the operatic genre, having recently conducted operas including Così fan tutte, L’elisir d’amore, The Lighthouse, Carmen and Tosca.
Venditti is an advocate for finding inclusive experiences for new audiences. She has championed Nicola Campogrande’s Concerto for Audience and Orchestra, originally commissioned for Paris Philharmonie, for which the public is given kazoos and plastic-wrapped mints with which to interact with the orchestra – and being conducted as part of the performance. She first conducted the work in 2016 for an open-air audience of 2,000 in Matera (Italy), and with Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra in September 2019. Last season, Nil conducted Irish National Opera’s first virtual reality community opera Out of the Ordinary, which was developed for and with people living across Ireland, placing communities at the centre of the opera creation process.
Venditti trained in conducting at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste under the guidance of Professor Johannes Schlaefli, as well as attending the Conducting Academy associated with the Pärnu Music Festival under Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi and Leonid Grin. In Italy, she graduated in cello performance with Francesco Pepicelli and orchestral conducting with Marcello Bufalini.
HarrisonParrott represents Nil Venditti for worldwide general management.
“The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra showed absolute class, conducted by the excellent Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti. What a discovery: with soft but energetic signs, she created a full yet differentiated overall sound that was both opulent and sensual.”
“Entrusted to the baton of Nil Venditti, a young Italian-Turkish conductor barely 26 years old, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine is in unison with the colourful tale presented on stage. Urged by the orchestration of Donizetti, the horns, trumpets, trombones and timpani sound surprisingly rustic and render in the pit the friendly and scruffy accents of a village brass band. The conductor also succeeds in winding up her orchestra and dragging all the desks with her into frantic tempos. There indeed lies the difficulty of interpreting the musica buffa of the beginning of the 19th Century: Nil Venditti plays with it and pulls off the little miracle necessary to infuse madness into her entire group, without ever confusing speed with haste. Stylistically, her conducting already shows so much maturity that we can’t wait to hear her in a darker repertoire. The Opéra National de Bordeaux would be well advised to invite her to conduct Lucia or one of the Tudor queens…”
“The Friday night concert was led by the vibrant Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti who injected plenty of life into proceedings with her upbeat personality and amusing asides between pieces.”
“…the direction of this evening has shown the mastery of the repertoire by Nil Venditti, who has not used a score throughout […] the energy evoked by the conductor, to which we will add enthusiasm and participation, constitutes a very charming triptych for a concert!”
“Nil Venditti, female conductor from Italy, seemed to be the most prominent among the students. Her music making was full of lively Italian energy and a burning desire to make music, all the while her hands were firm and clear. She was also chosen as the only conductor of the Järvi Academy to open the second half of the Academy gala concert conducted by Paavo Järvi. In the hands of the Italiana, the work Musica profana for string orchestra by Lepo Sumera, composer rarely played in Estonia, sounded very convincing.”
“a special alchemy catalysed the audience, conquered by the very young baton of Nil Venditti, only 23, from Perugia, pure talent who captivated everyone with Rossini’s energy and the utter brio of his overtures from Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il turco in Italia and L’italiana in Algeri. Venditti conducted the first half from memory, in perfect synchrony with the large-screen images of an animated film by Gianini-Luzzati.”