Paolo Gatto

Born in Bergamo, Italy. Having studied the piano play and the art of composition, he gained a lot of professional experience as “Maestro Sostituto“ and also as an assistant of the conductor in the most prominent opera houses in Italy (we mention among other a long collaboration with Arena di Verona, Donizetti Festival Bergamo); there he collaborated with most renowned singers and conductors (Domingo, Carreras, Kraus, Dimitrova, Kabaivanska, Cappuccilli, Santi, Oren, Patan?, Abbado,...).
After having graduated serie of International Masterclasses of conducting in Italy, Bulgaria, Austria and Holland, he finished his studies of Conducting at the Vienna Academy of Music (with professor Karl Oesterreicher), he started his own professional carrier as a conductor. At the beginning he cooperated with italian music ensembles (Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Ente Autonomo Arena di Verona, Archi italiani, Orchestra Stabile di Bergamo…), later he appeared as a guest in many other countries of Europe such as Austria, Germany, Holland, France, Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Spain, Potugal,.
In 1993 he was one of founders of the Symphonic Orchestra C. Coccia of Novara and Principal Conductor of the Theatre C. Coccia where he performed many opera and symphonic productions until 1998.
Since 1993 Gatto´s  activites have been extended by his frequent cooperation with Czech orchestras and namely the opera houses: The National Theatre Prague (La Boh?me, Tosca), the State Opera Prague (Nabucco, Rigoletto), the Janáček Opera House in Brno (Il Trovatore, Lucia di Lammermoor, L’elisir d’amore, Don Carlo) and  the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Ostrava where he prepared as Principal Guest Conductor 22 new productions (Pelléas et Mélisande, Turandot, Carmen, Aida, Traviata, Rusalka, Don Giovanni,…) and conducted many other operas between 1995-2009. He permanently cooperates with important concert institutions and festivals in the Czech Republic such as the Janáček Philharmonic in Ostrava, the Brno State Philharmonic, the Czech Virtuosi, the Moravian Philharmonic Olomouc, The Chamber Philharmonic in České Budějovice, the North Bohemian Philharmonic in Teplice and others.
He frequently collaborates with Polish and Slovak theatres too.
Since 1998 Paolo Gatto is Artistic Director of The International festival of chamber music in France “Le rencontres de Louvergny”; he was Guest Conductor at the Centre Lyrique d’Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand.
He frequently works also with The State Philharmony of Kosice and The Slovak Sinfonietta.
In 2009 Gatto became Musical Director of the National Theatre in Kosice Slovakia and during season 2010-2011 worked also as its Artistic Director (Madama Butterfly, Adriana Lecouvreur, Nozze di Figaro, Traviata, Carmen, Rusalka, Il barbiere di Siviglia and others).
Since 2011 he is Guest Conductor in the National Theatre of Bratislava  (Madama Butterfly, Traviata, Boheme, Turandot).
He often cooperates with radio and TV stations in Italy, France, Bulgaria and Czech Republic.
He recorded many CDs with his own orchestra, as well as with orchestras in Russia and Czech Republic.
At the St. Wenceslas Music Festival he has already performed Stabat Mater by Boccherini, Requiem by Verdi and Symphony “Lobgesang” by Mendelssohn.