Aldo Brizzi was the main conductor of the Ensemble of Ferienkurse, in Darmstadt (1900 - 1994) and is now music director...
Aldo Brizzi was the main conductor of the Ensemble of Ferienkurse, in Darmstadt (1900 - 1994) and is now music director of the Núcleo de Opera da Bahia - Brazil. He also conducted the strings of Berlin’s Philharmonic, the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra (Paris) and recorded albums with Bamberger Symphoniker, the Turin Philharmonic and Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra. He released “Brizzi do Brasil”, an album with original Aldo’s songs interpreted by Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Teresa Salgueiro, Tom Zé and other meaningful names. He wrote symphonic works played by Baden-Baden Radiosymfonie Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Arditti String Quartet, and many more. As composer, Brizzi wrote operas such as “Mambo Mistico”, produced by the national Theater of Chaillot, in Paris, the "Ópera dos terreiros", premiered in Salvador Bahia, Brazil in 2020, "Jelin" (a comic opera set on Christmas time) premiered in Italy in 2021 and a modern orchestration of Scott Joplin’s “Treemonisha”. He recorded with the choir and Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, for the movie “Le Premier Mouvement de L’immobile". He was also awarded with the “Diapason d’or”, “European Year of Musica” (Venice Biennale), the A. Hepburn Foundation and many others. He studied with Sergiu Celibidache and Leonard Bernstein and worked with Giacinto Scelsi and Ennio Morricone.
Aldo Brizzi