Riccardo Minasi

Italian conductor Riccardo Minasi currently serves as Principal Guest Conductor of Ensemble Resonanz who are resident at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, and Artistic Director of Orchestra La Scintilla at the Zurich Opera House, positions he has held since 2022. His previous appointments include co-founder and conductor of Il Pomo d’Oro from 2011 to 2016, Chief Conductor of the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra from 2017 to 2022, and Music Director of Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa from 2022 to 2025. 

In the 2025/26 season, Minasi is Artist in Residence at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie where he conducts four programmes with Ensemble Resonanz, including a concertante performance of Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ. He also performs in Hamburg with Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen as part of his European tour with Beatrice Rana, followed by concerts in South America alongside James Ehnes. 

Other highlights of the season include his first appearances with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, SWR Symphonieorchester, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Dresdner Philharmonie with Martin Fröst. He also leads Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No.3 with Marianne Crebassa in Essen, Dortmund and Köln and two symphonic programmes with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra and Queensland Symphony Orchestra.