Daniele Squeo

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Daniele Squeo (* 1985 in Terlizzi , Italy ) is an Italian conductor .

Live and act

Squeo studied piano and choral conducting in his home country . In 2008 he came to Germany as assistant to the Leipzig Nikolaikantor. At the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar graduated Squeo his studies in orchestral conducting with Gunter Kahlert , Nicolás Pasquet and Anthony Bramall .

Squeo is the winner of several international conducting competitions: In 2011 he won the XVIII with Puccini's Madama Butterfly . Competition for young conductors of the European Union in Spoleto , Umbria . In 2013 he won 1st place at the 5th German Operetta Prize, and Squeo is also the winner of the 4th conducting competition of the Central German universities in Leipzig with the MDR Symphony Orchestra . From 2012 he received a scholarship from the Conductors' Forum from the German Music Council.

From 2009 Squeo directed several orchestras, including the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen , the Jenaer Philharmonie, the Philharmonie Essen, the orchestra of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto , the North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice, the MDR and Karlsbader Symphony Orchestra, the Musikkollegium Winterthur , the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the Basel Symphony , Vorarlberg Symphony , the orchestra of Philharmonie Baden-Baden, the Nuremberg Symphony , the Bochum Symphony, the mecklenburgische staatskapelle that Badische Staatskapelle , and the Moscow Philharmonic .

In 2013/14 Daniele Squeo went to the Nordhausen Theater as head of studies and conductor . In 2014 he changed to the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe as second conductor and performed with this ensemble and Mozart's Magic Flute at the Daegu International Opera Festival in Korea . In 2016/17 Squeo was appointed 1st coordinated Kapellmeister in Karlsruhe and directed new productions such as L'elisir d'amore , I Capuleti ei Montecchi , Roméo et Juliette , Faust , Anna Bolena , Das kleine Schwarze / The riot of spring and Carmina Burana . Squeo has also conducted numerous repertoire productions such as Die Zauberflöte , La Bohème , Giselle , Sleeping Beauty , Iphigénie en Tauride / Iphigenie auf Tauris , Fantasio , Der Prophet , Carmen , Tosca , La traviata , Un ballo in maschera , Macbeth , Simon Boccanegra , Adriana Lecouvreur , Turandot , Der Freischütz , as well as symphony, special and youth concerts.

In 2017 Daniele Squeo directed the new production La Cenerentola by Rossini at the Basel Theater , and in 2018 at the Bregenz Festival, The Barber of Seville , directed by Brigitte Fassbaender . He continued the collaboration he began in 2016 with the Musikkollegium Winterthur for Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and several symphony concerts in 2019 with new productions such as Lucrezia Borgia in Moscow , Roberto Devereux , Faust and the resumption of Götterdämmerung and Pelléas et Mélisande at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe . At the same time, he has been conducting the production Rigoletto at the Bregenz Festival since 2019 .

With the 2020/21 season, Squeo will act as general music director at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern . The planned guest engagements also include the production I puritani at the Zurich Opera House and Nino Rota's Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze at the Graz Opera House .

Awards, competitions and grants

Daniele Squeo has collected many prizes and awards at international conducting competitions, including:

  • 2013: 1st place at the 5th German Operetta Prize for Young Conductors, awarded by the Conductors' Forum of the German Music Council and the Leipzig Opera.
  • 2013: Winner of the 4th conducting competition of the Central German Universities in Leipzig with the MDR Symphony Orchestra
  • 2012 - 2015: funded by the German Music Council as a scholarship holder of the Conductors Forum
  • 2011: 1st prize in the XVIII. Competition for young conductors of the European Union in Spoleto, Italy
  • 2010: Masterclass scholarship from the Internationale Dirigentenakademie Ruhr - voice and orchestra; this enabled him to work with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Essen Philharmonic, Sir Roger Norrington, Steven Sloane and Sylvain Cambreling

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniele Squeo wins operetta award for young conductors. January 8, 2013, accessed on March 11, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ Daniele Squeo | Ensemble | Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  3. ^ Daniele Squeo | Ensemble | Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ The challenge of “relaxed cheerfulness” - Rossini's “Barbers” at the Bregenz Festival | nmz - new music newspaper. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  5. ^ WORLD: Squeo becomes the new general music director at the Pfalztheater . In: THE WORLD . December 20, 2019 ( welt.de [accessed March 11, 2020]).
  6. ^ German Operetta Prize - Conductors' Forum. Retrieved March 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Squeo, Daniele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Terlizzi , Italy