©Photo: Alessandro Bertani

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©Photo: Alessandro Bertani

©Photo: Carlo Bonini

©Photo: Alessandro Bertani

Nil Venditti

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“She has a great capacity for concentration and communication with the musicians, as well as magnetism and charisma, but also an enormous authority that is well understood and respected.”
Scherzo, November 2022

Principal Guest Conductor: Royal Northern Sinfonia (from 2024/25)

Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti is fast establishing relationships with important orchestras and ensembles around the world including the Royal Northern Sinfonia, of which she is the Principal Guest Conductor starting 2024/25 season.

The 2024/25 season sees her making debuts with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Arctic Philharmonic and Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic orchestras, as well as orchestras in Aalborg, Tenerife, Baleares, Wuppertal and Bochum. She performs twice with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and returns to the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra for touring concerts at the Wiener Musikverein and in Bregenz, as well as BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Helsingborg Symphony, Hamburger Symphoniker and Real Filharmonia de Galicia.

In the 2023/24 season, Venditti made debuts with the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic and Hiroshima Symphony orchestras and Royal Swedish Opera for a new production of Don Giovanni, among others. She returned to BBC National Orchestra of Wales including her BBC Proms debut, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia, as well as Stuttgart Opera for a production of Rigoletto. She also made her debut at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.

Venditti combines a strong affinity for classical/early Romantic repertoire with a particular interest in Turkish and Italian composers. She continues to excel in the operatic genre, having conducted operas from Mozart’s Così fan tutte to Peter Maxwell-Davies’ The Lighthouse.

Venditti trained in conducting at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste under the guidance of Professor Johannes Schlaefli, as well as attending the Conducting Academy associated with the Pärnu Music Festival under Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi and Leonid Grin. In Italy, she graduated in cello performance with Francesco Pepicelli.

HarrisonParrott represents Nil Venditti for worldwide general management.

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

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

“Under the inspiring direction of Nil Venditti, the Stuttgart State Orchestra plays with passion, brio and strong melodic intensity. The declamatory expression of the individual characters is never neglected.”

Online Merker, March 2024

“Under the direction full of temperament of the Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti, a thrilling atmosphere emerged from the first note”

(schabel kultur blog, November 2023)

“She has a great capacity for concentration and communication with the musicians, as well as magnetism and charisma, but also an enormous authority that is well understood and respected.”

Scherzo, November 2022

“The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra showed absolute class, conducted by the excellent Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti. What a discovery: with soft but energetic signs, she created a full yet differentiated overall sound that was both opulent and sensual.”

(Main Post, May 2022)

“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)