Recently considered by the Spanish critics as “a major surprise”, the conductor and pianist LANFRANCO MARCELLETTI has been one of most internationally recognized Brazilian artists.

His engagements as a conductor has brought him to countries like Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain and United States, where he currently lives. Among the orchestras he has worked with, we can name the Brazil Symphony Orchestra (Rio de Janeiro), the Chilean National Symphony (Santiago), the National Theater Orchestra (Brasilia, Brazil), Xalapa Symphony Orchestra (Mexico), Orchestra del Teatro Communale de Bologna (Italy), Galicia Symphony Orchestra (La Coruña, Spain) and Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra (Cooperstown, USA).

In the opera world, He has been recognized not only as a conductor, but also as a coach pianist for singers. Protegé of the renowned conductor Alberto Zedda, Marcelletti has conducted two major productions in the Rossini Opera Festival: Il Viaggio a Reims and the revival of Arrighetto, by Carlo Coccia, He also conducted productions for the Glimmerglass Opera Festival (New York City Opera’s summer Festival), Commonwealth Opera (Massachusetts, USA), Teatro Calderón (Valladolid, Spain) and Albany University (USA). In the past years, has also served as assistant conductor in productions in the Teatro Real (Madrid, Spain) and in the Tampa Bay Opera (Florida, USA). This coming December, he comes back to the Teatro Calderón for the premiere of a children music/theater play about Mozart , written by him and actress Carmen Bermejo.

Among his prizes, we can cite the first prize in both the II Conducting Competition, organized by the Chilean Symphony Orchestra (Santiago, 1998) and the Giovani Solisti di Roma Competition (Piano, 1988), the prize Debut Artist Conductor of the Year, awarded by the São Paulo Association of Critics of Art (1996), and the Dean’s (1996) and Eleazar de Carvalho (1997) Prizes, both awarded by the Yale University. In 1992, the Pernambuco State Legislature unanimously awarded him a special citation for his work for the music in his native city, Recife.

Marcelletti attended the Yale University (orchestra conducting), where he had as a mentor Maestro Eleazar de Carvalho, the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna (piano, composition), the Musik Akademie in Zurich (piano) and the Conservatório Pernambucano de Música (Recife, Brazil), where he started his music studies. He also attended master classes with conductors Kurt Masur, Julius Rudel, Leopold Haager, Znedek Macal, Gunther Herbig, among others.

Currently, Marcelletti is the director of the University Orchestra, at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, USA), and the Principal Conductor of the Franciscan Chamber Orchestra, a professional Chamber Orchestra based in Albany, New York. Since 2001, he serves as member of the faculty and conductor at the Eleazar de Carvalho Summer Arts Festival (Fortaleza, Brazil).