Claudia Patanè

Conductor

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The Italian conductor Claudia Patanè is considered one of the outstanding artistic personalities of our time.
Her upcoming events are a Symphonic concert at Teatro Bellini in Catania 7-8 february 2025 and Rossini’s L’inganno Felice at Krakow Opera House, Rossini’s Petit Messe Solemnelle at Rossini Festival in Wildbad in summer 2025.
Guest conducting engagements have taken Claudia Patanè, among others, to the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, where she is guest conductor since 2019, the Erfurt Theater, the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the North Bohemian Philharmonic Teplice.
On February 2024 she conducted at the Teatro Bellini in Catania the first performance of the cantata Le Ragioni degli Angeli by the italian composer Emanuele Casale, greeted with huge enthusiasm both from audience and critics. The repertoire of the captivating and versatile conductor ranges from early music to contemporary works, and from symphonic to opera, ballet and musical theater.
Claudia Patanè was guest conductor at the Theater Erfurt in Germany. Here she conducted the musical Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim and the ballet Face Me/Le Sacre du Printemps with music by Michael Krause and Igor Stravinskij, as a co-production between the Deutsches Nationaltheater and the Staatskapelle Weimar as well as the Tanztheater Erfurt Ester Ambrosino.
She served both as assistant and guest conductor at the Joseph Kajetan Tyla Theater in Plzen (Czech Republic), in productions of ballet as well as opera.
As a young musician she gained her first experience as a principal conductor of the orchestra of the Conservatory “Santa Cecilia” in the 2015/ 2016 season, where she played a key role in shaping the “Prendiamo nota” initiative at the Teatro Eliseo in Rome and conducted, among others, the premiere of three operas by contemporary composers.
Claudia Patanè first studied piano at the “Vincenzo Bellini” Conservatory in Catania and conducting at the “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory in Rome. After graduating, she continued her studies in conducting at the “Accademia Musicale Pescarese” under the direction of Maestro Donato Renzetti, who described her as «one of the most interesting talents of her generation». She participated in masterclasses, among others, with Johannes Schlaefli, James Lowe and Norbert Baxa. She is currently a PhD student in music theory and analysis at the University of Roma Tor Vergata.