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Gianluca Martinenghi is an Italian opera and symphonic music conductor.

Early life and background
Gianluca Martinenghi was born in Milano in 1968. He studied piano with [|Piero Rattalino] and composition with Bruno Bettinelli. Later on, he began studying orchestral conducting with Donato Renzetti and Giacomo Zani.

Career
His career as a conductor started in 1994 with the prestigious Orchestra of Teatro Massimo di Palermo. In the first part of his career together with them, he executed many symphonic concerts and important contemporary 20th Century productions by Benjamin Britten and Hans Werner Henze. In that same period, he collaborated with important musicians as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Rudolf Barshai, and Bruno Campanella.

In addition to his appearances with the Orchestra of Teatro Massimo di Palermo, his career kept developing further on, and so he was invited to conduct concerts with orchestras of absolute international prestige, allowing him to face the great symphonic repertoire. As most memorable we would mention: the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, l’Orchestre Philarmonique de Montecarlo, the National Hungarian Filarmomic Orchestra, l’Orquesta del Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires, l'Orquesta Sinfonica of Tenerife, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, l’Orquesta Sinfonica de Malaga, l’Orchestra Toscanini di Parma, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, l'Ochestra Sinfonica dello Sferisterio di Macerata, l'Orchestra del Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago, l’Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, l’Orchestra del Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari and many others.

As an operatic conductor, he had the pleasure to work in great theatres and has at the moment more than 50 titles in his repertoire. In the evermore expanding list, here are some of the most important: Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Arena di Verona, Teatro Bellini di Catania, Deutsche Oper Berlin, NCPA Beijing, Seoul Opera Center, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo, Teatro Pavarotti di Modena, Opera Ireland, Palm Beach Opera, Teatro Goldoni di Livorno, Teatro Verdi di Pisa, Slovenian National Theatre, Macedonian National Theatre, Sydney Opera House, Croatian National Theatre, Grand Theatre de Tours and Georgian National Theatre.

He was also Vice Director of two great musical institutions such as the Teatro Massimo di Palermo and the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino: these two experiences allowed him to collaborate with some of the greatest international musicians such as Zubin Mehta, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Seji Ozawa, and many others.

Awards
He was nominated Principal Guest Conductor to the Tenerife Opera Festival in the period included between 2009/2011 and Chief Conductor of Macedonian Opera Theatre from 2016 until 2018.

Other work
In his very rich career, he made many recordings, from which we can mention: the CD with Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona for EMI for a tribute to Enrico Caruso and in Taormina Festival the television broadcasted worldwide with Rigoletto.