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After completing his piano studies with top honors, Alfonso Todisco earned his Bachelor Degree in Conducting cum laude and special mention at the “Giuseppe Martucci” Conservatory of Salerno under the guidance of Maestro Nicola Hansalik Samale, followed by a Master Degree with honors at the “Domenico Cimarosa” Conservatory of Avellino, studying with Maestro Giacomo Sagripanti.
He also obtained a First-Level Master’s Degree in Music Theory and Analysis with highest marks from the University of Calabria, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Conducting from the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien under Maestro Andreas Stoehr. He specialized at the Accademia dei Musici di Parma with Maestro Daniele Agiman.
Todisco is actively engaged in musicological research, with a project dedicated to Domenico Scarlatti that has led him to participate in prestigious international conferences, including the Porto International Symposium (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2019), the 14th Symposium on Spanish Keyboard Music “Diego Fernández” (Almería, 2019), and the XXI Conference on Music Theory and Analysis (GATM) in Salerno (2022).
During the 2019/2020 academic year, he was awarded a research grant at the Conservatory of Salerno for a project entitled “Verso la forma sonata classica”, and collaborated with the musicological journal Il Mondo della Musica, directed by Maria Elisa Tozzi, between 2020 and 2021. In September 2022, he released the album Vivo, produced by Da Vinci Classics, featuring the Serenades for Strings by Dvořák and Tchaikovsky, recorded with the KLK Symphonic Orchestra at the Philharmonic Hall of Lviv.
He currently teaches Music Theory and Analysis at the “Domenico Cimarosa” Conservatory of Avellino.
Alfonso Todisco has collaborated with renowned institutions and ensembles, including the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, I Pomeriggi Musicali, Teatro G. Verdi di Salerno, Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti di Napoli, Orchestra Metropolitana di Bari, Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, Teatro Goldoni di Livorno, KLK Symphony Orchestra of Lviv, I Musici di Parma, Joven Orquestra Leonesa, Ruse State Opera and the National Opera and Ballet “Oleg Danovski” in Constanța.
He was the assistant conductor to M° Giacomo Sagripanti in major symphonic and operatic productions, including the Lyric Gala with Nadine Sierra and Pretty Yende with the Prague Philharmonia (March, 2023), Ein deutsches Requiem by Brahms with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (October, 2023), and Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse (October, 2024). During this production he was entrusted with conducting the final performance, which was a great success. He will return in the 2026–2027 season to conduct Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini.