As an internationally sought-after guest conductor, he has conducted numerous renowned orchestras such as the “Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice”, the “Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse”, the “Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra” in Washington, the “Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra”, the “Mariinsky Symphony Orchestra”, the “Hamburg Symphony Orchestra”, the “Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion”, the “Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra”, the “Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra”, the “Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra”, the “Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana”, the “Filarmonica Marchigiana”, the “Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra”, the “Silesian Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra”.

In concert, opera and ballet performances, the Italian-German conductor Luciano Di Martino is highly regarded for his intensity, spontaneity, precision, sense of expression and distinctive musicality. 

Until 1996, he studied conducting at the “University of Music and Drama” in Hamburg under Professor Klauspeter Seibel and at the “Accademia Chigiana” in Siena with Valery Gergiev, Myung-Whun Chung and the legendary conducting teacher, Ilya Musin. 

Upon completing his training, he initially worked as a freelance accompanist. Simultaneously, he gained experience in early music and historical performance practice with baroque ensembles based in Hamburg. He displayed a particular interest in the music of Handel and Monteverdi.

Di Martino began his career in 1996 with the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, conducting a concert dedicated to the Swedish composers Franz Berwald, Lars-Erik Larsson and Hugo Alfvén.

Di Martino has been a regular guest at the Hamburg State Opera since 2008. He has conducted numerous performances of Verdi’s “La Traviata” and “Luisa Miller”. In the Hanseatic city, he also enjoys a long-standing collaboration with the director of the Hamburg Ballet, the choreographer, John Neumeier. He has conducted numerous ballets – such as “The Nutcracker”, “The Little Mermaid”, “The Glass Menagerie” and “Duse” starring the Internationally acclaimed artist and prima ballerina assoluta Alessandra Ferri. 

Di Martino has also had the honour of working with renowned soloists such as Maxim Vengerov, Pepe Romero, and Uto Ughi, as well as star singers such as Anna Netrebko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Josè Cura, Ghena Dimitrova and Kammersängerin Anna Tomowa-Sintow.

Other important stage in Di Martino's career were conducting “Attila”, “Aida”, “Don Carlos”, “L’elisir d’amore”, “I Pagliacci”, “La Sonnambula” and Medelsssohn's oratorio “Elijah” at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, “Don Giovanni” and “The Magic Flute” at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, “Lucia di Lammermoor” at the Historic State Theatre in Minneapolis, “Otello” and “Tosca” at the Novosibirsk Opera Theatre, “Eugene Onegin” at the National Opera Bucharest, “Rigoletto” at the National Opera Sofia, Gluck's “Orfeo ed Euridice”, Così fan tutte, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, Nabucco, Manon Lescaut, Turandot, Cavalleria Rusticana, Macbeth and Falstaff at the Opera Open Festival in Plovdiv, “Carmina Burana” and “La Traviata” at the Thessaloniki Megaron Concert Hall and “Madama Butterfly” at the New Israeli Opera.

He has had the pleasure of working in many Opera Productions with renowned directors such as Stefano Poda, Mariusz Trelinski and Christian Räth.  At the Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse, he first realised a complete audio recording of the ballet “Giselle” and conducted the premiere of the ballet “La Sylphide” in collaboration with the choreographer and expert on the ballets of August Bournonville, Dinna Bjørn. 

Following his initial positions as General Music Director of the State Opera in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, he was appointed permanent conductor of the Classic FM Radio Orchestra in Sofia. He is currently “Conductor and Artistic Director” of the Bulgarian State Opera and the Philharmonic Orchestra in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. There, he enjoys a significant degree of innovative influence on the musical life of the European Capital of Culture.

In the field of contemporary music, Di Martino has performed works by Lera Auerbach, Alexander Tekeliev, Christos Samaras, Philipp Glass, Ned Rorem and Arvo Pärt.