Nil Venditti

Italian-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti is fast establishing relationships with major orchestras and ensembles around the world, including the Royal Northern Sinfonia, of which she has been Principal Guest Conductor since the 2024/25 season.

This season she has engagements spanning the globe. Highlights include a number of concerts in the UK, where she works extensively with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as making her debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. She also makes her debut at London’s Barbican with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. She also appears with the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Musikalische Akademie Mannheim, Bilbao and Quebec Symphony orchestras and Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.

Recent highlights include debuts with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, as well as returns to the BBC Proms, Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

She combines a strong affinity for Classical and early Romantic repertoire with a particular interest in Turkish and Italian composers. She continues to strengthen her reputation in the opera house, and has conducted operas from Mozart’s Così fan tutte to Peter Maxwell-Davies’s The Lighthouse. Next summer she conducts Macbeth for Longborough Festival Opera.

Nil Venditti studied conducting at the Zurich University of the Arts with Johannes Schlaefli, as well as attending the Conducting Academy associated with the Pärnu Music Festival under Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi and Leonid Grin. Prior to this, she studied cello in Italy with Francesco Pepicelli.

Arweinydd

Mae’r arweinydd Eidalaidd-Twrcaidd, Nil Venditti, yn prysur sefydlu perthynas â cherddorfeydd ac ensembles mawr ym mhedwar ban byd, gan gynnwys y Royal Northern Sinfonia, y mae hi wedi bod yn Brif Arweinydd Gwadd arni ers tymor 2024/25.

Y tymor hwn, mae hi’n perfformio ledled y byd. Mae ei huchafbwyntiau’n cynnwys nifer o gyngherddau yn y DU, lle mae’n gweithio’n helaeth gyda Cherddorfa Genedlaethol Gymreig y BBC a’r Gerddorfa Ffilharmonig Frenhinol, yn ogystal ag ymddangos am y tro cyntaf gyda Cherddorfa’r Philharmonia a Cherddorfa Symffoni Dinas Birmingham. Mae hi hefyd yn ymddangos am y tro cyntaf yn y Barbican yn Llundain gyda Cherddorfa Symffoni’r BBC. Mae hi hefyd yn ymddangos gyda’r Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, y Beethoven Orchester Bonn, y Musikalische Akademie Mannheim, Cerddorfeydd Symffoni Bilbao a Quebec a Cherddorfa Ffilharmonig Tampere, ymysg eraill.

Mae ei huchafbwyntiau diweddar yn cynnwys ymddangos am y tro cyntaf gyda Cherddorfa Symffoni Radio’r Ffindir, Cerddorfa Ffilharmonig y BBC ac Ensemble Cerddorfa Kanazawa, yn ogystal â dychwelyd i Proms y BBC, Gŵyl Schleswig-Holstein, y Gerddorfa Ffilharmonig Frenhinol, a’r Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

Mae hi’n cyfuno cysylltiad cryf â repertoire Clasurol a Rhamantaidd cynnar gyda diddordeb arbennig mewn cyfansoddwyr o Dwrci ac o’r Eidal. Mae hi’n parhau i gryfhau ei henw da yn y tŷ opera, ac mae wedi arwain operâu fel Così fan tutte Mozart a The Lighthouse Peter Maxwell-Davies. Yr haf nesaf, bydd hi’n arwain Macbeth ar gyfer Opera Gŵyl Longborough.

Astudiodd Nil Venditti arwain ym Mhrifysgol y Celfyddydau, Zurich gyda Johannes Schlaefli, yn ogystal â mynychu’r Academi Arwain sy’n gysylltiedig â Gŵyl Gerddoriaeth Pärnu o dan Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi a Leonid Grin. Cyn hyn, bu hi’n astudio’r soddgrwth yn yr Eidal gyda Francesco Pepicelli.