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Nil Venditti

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“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)

Principal Guest Conductor: Orchestra della Toscana

Young Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti has already established relationships with orchestras including Orchestra della Toscana, of which she is Principal Guest Conductor, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Ankara-based Ancyra Ensemble.

Throughout the 2020/21 season, she made successful debuts with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre National de Metz, Pierre Lemanic Modern Ensemble, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Orchestra dell’ Arena di Verona and Irish National Opera. Other notable debuts include Camerata Salzburg in November 2019, conducting Fazil Say in works by the pianist/composer himself, who has become a strong supporter since they first worked together in February 2018.

In the 2021/22 season, Nil Venditti returns to conduct the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse as well as Irish National Opera and makes both her operatic and symphonic debuts with Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitane, as well as debuts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Opera North Orchestra and I Musici de Montréal.

With a strong affinity for the core classical repertoire of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, she is also expanding her scope into the operatic field, having conducted Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro and Die Zauberflöte, as well as Peter Maxwell-Davies’ The Lighthouse, Verdi’s Nabucco, Bizet’s Carmen and Salieri’s Prima la musica poi le parole. In Spring 2022, she conducts Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore in Bordeaux and Puccini’s Tosca in the summer.

HarrisonParrott represents Nil Venditti for worldwide general management.

Beethoven: Symphony No.7 2nd Movement/ Orchestre de Pau/ (Pau, Feb 2020) © Les films du Worso

Verdi: Nabucco/ J.K. Tyl Theatre Plzeň / (Plzeň, June 2021) © J. K. Tyl Theatre

Mendelssohn-Hensel: Ouverture in C Major/ Ulster Orchestra/ (Belfast, Nov 2021) © Ulster Orchestra

Koussevitzky: Double Bass Concerto/ Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest/ Luis Cabrera Martin / (Amsterdam, Dec 2020 © Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest

Schumann Cello Concerto in A Minor Op. 129/ Orchestre de Pau/ Pablo Ferrandez/ (Pau, Feb 2020) © Les films du Worso

A Celebration for International Women’s Day/ Irish National Symphony Orchestra/ (Dublin Mar 2022) © National Symphony Orchestra

“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 19^th 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…”

(Première Loge, Apr 2022)

“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.”

(Journal of Music, Mar 2022)

“…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!”

(Bachtrack, November 2021)

“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.”

(Kerstin Elisabeth Kullerkupp for SIRP, Eesti Kultuurileht, August 2018)

“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.”

(Il Messaggero, January 2018)