Teresa Satalino
Born in South of Italy, she began her studies on the piano. Then she graduated in Composition, Orchestra Conducting and also in Literature and music history with a thesis on Luciano Berio.
She holds a master’s degree in onducting under the guidance of Jorma Panula, Bruno Bartoletti, Lu-Jia, Alain Lombard, Donato Renzetti e Piero Bellugi.
She has performed in venues like Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Wien, Esterazy Palace in Eisenstadt, Smetana Hall in Prague, Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Surayya Opera in Istanbul. She collaborated with artists like Calogero Palermo, Omar Tomasoni, Carlo Parazzoli, Silvia Careddu, Patrick Messina, Sergey Galaktionov, Davide Alogna, Marco Rizzi, Anna Serova, Roman Spitzer, Emanuele Silvestri, Gernot Süßmuth, Felix Schwarz.
In 2018 she was nominated as Music Director of AYSO Orchestra, a youth orchestra composed by about 70 musicians from all over Italy; in just a few years AYSO has become a national reference point and a valuable trait d'union between academic training and the world of professional orchestras.
She recently led AYSO to win first prize at International Summa Cum Laude Festival in Wien against orchestras from all over the world.
She is also Artistic Director of AYSO Youg Soloist, a chamber orchestra with an intense concert activity which recently was guest of Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Praga and of the Italian Embassy in Wien.
She has conducted in international festivals such as the Italian Brass Week, the Walton Foundation International Festival, the Como Città Classica Festival at the Teatro Sociale in Como, the International Festival of Youth Orchestras in Florence, and the Napoli Teatro Festival. She conducted a world premiere performance at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the patronage of the Italian Space Agency and the first Italian performance of Ayre, an extraordinary cycle of folk songs by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov with materials from Arabic, Jewish and Sephardic sources.
She combines artistic activity with teaching: she is a Professor at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Monopoli.