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1 Biography  





2 Guest conducting  





3 Symphonies and performers  



3.1  Symphonies  





3.2  Performers  







4 Selected discography  



4.1  Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra  





4.2  Other orchestras and performances  







5 Awards and recognition  





6 References  





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Rico Saccani
Rico Saccani
Rico Saccani
Background information
Birth nameRico Saccani
Born (1952-04-16) April 16, 1952 (age 72)
Tucson, Arizona
GenresClassical, Opera
Occupation(s)Conductor
Years active1982 – present

Rico Saccani (born April 16, 1952) is a conductor who served as music director / artistic adviser of the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra between 1996 and 2005 [1] and was principal guest conductor of the Hungarian State Opera from 1985 to 2005.

Biography[edit]

Saccani began his music career with piano studies at age six. He attended the National Music CampinInterlochen, Michigan from 1965–1968 and went on to the Chautauqua Summer Music Institute from 1969-1972. In 1973, he attended the Summer Academy at Fontainebleau where he worked with Nadia Boulanger. Following 300 Community Concert piano recitals from 1974–1978, he participated in the 1978 Leeds and Tchaikowsky International Piano Competitions.

In 1974, Saccani graduated from the University of Arizona with a B.S. in Business and returned in 1980 for a B.M. in Music. From 1980-1982 he attended the University of Michigan School of Music where he obtained his M.M. in Conducting under Gustav Meier and his D.M.A. under Louis Nagel.

Saccani attended the 1983 summer conducting seminar for young conductors at Tanglewood where he worked with Seiji Ozawa, Leonard Bernstein and Maurice Abravanel. During a seven-year apprenticeship with Italian conductor Giuseppe Patane, Saccani won top prize in the 1984 Herbert von Karajan International Conducting Competition[2] in Berlin.

Saccani was engaged to perform with the Berlin and Stuttgart Radio Orchestras, the Royal Danish Philharmonic and the Spoleto Festival. His opera debut came in 1985 in Verdi's Un giorno di regno at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, La traviata at the Paris Opera and the Vienna State Opera, Il turco in Italia at the Rossini FestivalinPesaro plus La bohème at the Philadelphia Opera with Luciano Pavarotti for the PBS American television network.

Guest conducting[edit]

Saccani appeared regularly as guest conductor with many important symphony orchestras including the Bavarian Radio Orchestra (Munich), the Czech Philharmonic, the Irish National Symphony, the Tokyo Philharmonic and Yomiuri Symphonies, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Madrid and Bilbao Orchestras, the Gurzenisch Orchestra (Cologne), the Orchestre de chambre de Genève (Geneva Chamber Orchestra), the Hungarian National State Philharmonic, the Mannheim National Theater Orchestra, the Marseilles Opera Orchestra and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.

Maestro Saccani also appeared at the Hamburg State Opera, the Lyon Opera, the Monte-Carlo Opera, the Arena de Nîmes Festival, the Paris Opéra Comique, Rome, Dresden and Cologne Operas.

Saccani made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Il trovatore and was re-engaged for the first international radio broadcast of Traviata and Aida. He also conducted at the Teatro San Carlo (Naples), the Arena di Verona (Rigoletto), the Houston Grand Opera, the Puccini Festival Torre del Lago (Turandot), the Teatro Bellini di Catania (La Favorite and I puritani) as well as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Avenches Swiss Festival and the Santander Summer Music Festival in Spain.

Maestro Saccani was chief conductor / music xdirector of the Budapest Philharmonic from 1999-2006 as well as principal guest conductor of the Hungarian State Opera during the same years. He initiated a "Verdi Marathon" in the Hungarian State Opera house in January 2000 celebrating the Millennium where he conducted seven Verdi operas in nine evenings.[3] He returned to New York's Carnegie Hall and Washington's Kennedy Center that same year with the Iceland Symphony as their Music Director during their North American tour.

Symphonies and performers[edit]

Among those with whom Saccani has performed are:

Symphonies[edit]

Performers[edit]

Selected discography[edit]

Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra[edit]

Other orchestras and performances[edit]

Awards and recognition[edit]

2005 Legion of Honor (Hungary) for "distinguished contributions to Hungary's cultural life for over 20 years"

References[edit]

  • ^ Fanfare:The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors 24:1. September–October 2000
  • ^ "Budapest Bound" Opera News. 63:11 (May 1999)
  • External links[edit]


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