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Artist-Faculty



Federico Cortese, Associate conductor

Federico Cortese assumed the post of music director of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras in 1999. He has conducted operatic and symphonic engagements throughout the United States, Australia and Europe. From 1998-2002, he served as assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa. In addition to his scheduled concerts, Mr. Cortese has led the Boston Symphony several times on short notice in Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood, most notably performing Beethoven's 9th Symphony and Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

Mr. Cortese has conducted several prominent orchestras, including those of Atlanta, Dallas, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Opera engagements have included, among others, Maggio Musicale, the Spoleto Festival in Italy and United States, Boston's Lyric Opera and the Saint Louis Opera, Finnish National Opera, and Opera Australia. This season's engagements included Mr. Cortese's debut with the Sydney Symphony in Australia, as well as a production of André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire with the Washington National Opera.

Mr. Cortese studied composition and conducting at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome and subsequently studied at the Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna. In addition, he has been a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center. Besides music, Mr. Cortese studied literature and humanities and holds a law degree from La Sapienza University in Rome. This is his third summer with AYO.



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