Fabio Luisi

Fabio Luisi is music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Danish Radio National Symphony Orchestra. In addition, starting from the 2022/2023 season he will be principal conductor of the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo.

He is also emeritus conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI and honorary conductor of Teatro Carlo Felice of Genoa, his native town, which awarded him the Grifo d'Oro, for his contribution to the city’s cultural heritage.

Luisi studied piano at the Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini in Genoa and conducting with Milan Horvat in Graz. He conducts the world's most prestigious orchestras. A former principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Maestro Luisi has been honored with the Gold Medal and Gold Ring dedicated to Bruckner. His past engagements also include music director at the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Sächsische Staatsoper and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Tonkünstler-Orchester in Vienna, and artistic Director of the Leipzig Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and the Grazer Philharmoniker.

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 since his first appearance with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2005. In June 2022 he led the orchestra’s Ammodo Conducting Masterclass.