Fabio Luisi studied piano at the Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini in Genoa and conducting with Milan Horvat in Graz. He has been principal conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo since 2022. In addition, he is music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Danish Radio National Symphony Orchestra.
He is also music director of the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Puglia and honorary conductor of Teatro Carlo Felice in his native town, Genoa, and Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI.
As former principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Luisi has been honored with the Anton Bruckner Gold Ring and Medal. His past engagements also include music director at the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Sächsische Staatsoper and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Tonkünstler-Orchester in Vienna.
Luisi received a Grammy Award for his conducting of Wagner’s Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, the DVD of which - recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera - was named Best Opera Recording in 2012. His extensive discography also includes Bruckner's Ninth Symphony with the Staatskapelle Dresden, which was awarded the Echo Klassik Prize, and the rare original version of Bruckner’s Eighth with Philharmonia Zurich.
Luisi is a regular guest with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra since his first appearance in 2005. In June 2022 he led the orchestra’s Ammodo Conducting Masterclass. He is also a passionate composer of perfumes.