The Italian-German Luciano Di Martino is currently Conductor of the Classic FM Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well regular Guest Conductor of the Sofia Festival Orchestra.
Graduated in Orchestral Conducting in 1996 at the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg with Klauspeter Seibel and Irving Beckmann, he attended several conducting specialisation courses at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Valery Gergiev, Ilya Musin and Myung-Whun Chung. In 1996 he was chosen by the Hamburg Association of gifted Musicians, to conduct a Swedish symphonic program dedicated to the composers Berwald, Larsson and Alfven with the Hamburg Symphony.
He began his career as Guest Conductor with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic at the Festival Hall in Baden-Baden, with the Latvian National Opera in Riga, with the Solingen Symphony, with the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony and with the Filarmonica Marchigiana in Macerata.
Live television broadcasts include Gala Concerts with some of the most distinguished singers like Ghena Dimitrova, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Kaludi Kaludow, as well the Symphony Concerts with Star-Violinist Maxim Vengerov, with Guitarist Pepe Romero and with world-known Violinist Uto Ughi.
Di Martino worked with young talented soloists like Leticia Moreno, Anton Barachovsky, Luigi Piovano, Dag Jensen, Svetlin Roussev, Mario Hossen, Georgi Cherkin.
He had a highly succesful debut at the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg during the Salzburg Cultural-weeks with performances of “Don Carlos”, “Macbeth” and “Turandot”. He was guest conductor in several International Music Festivals and conducted among them “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” at the Opera Festival Musicorum Tempora in Villa Adriana, Rome, “Nabucco” and “Aida” at the Opera Festival in Castelgrande in Bellinzona, Switzerland, as well “Otello” and “Tosca” at the International Christmas Festival at the Novosibirsk State Opera. He has been invited to conduct “La Traviata” and “Carmina Burana” with the Thessaloniki State Symphony at the Megaro Mousikis Concert Hall as well “Rigoletto” and “Aida” at the Strasbourg Congress Hall.
He undertook many successful tours throughout the USA during which he conducted “Lucia di Lammermoor” at the Historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, “Cavalleria/I Pagliacci” at the Tilles Center for the Arts in New York, “La Boheme” at the Theatre in New Brunswick and “Rigoletto” at the Worcester Music Festival. From 2000 to 2004 Di Martino has served as Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Bulgarian State Opera in Stara Zagora and conducted the Anniversary-Concert of the Bulgarian Bass Boris Christoff at the Sofia National Opera.
He realized many demanding Symphonic programs with the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra dedicated to Mahler and Shostakovich, as well Stravinskij’s “The Rite of Spring”.
In 2006 he conducted Verdi’s “Messa da Requiem” in Sofia in memory of Ghena Dimitrova.
After his successful debut in 2008 at the Hamburg Sate Opera with Verdi’s “La Traviata” he will return there with new performances in 2009.

(Updated in March 2009)