Filippo Maria Bressan (born 27 November 1957, in Este) is an Italian conductor.Training pianist, he studied conducting with several teachers, among whom stand out Jurgen Jürgens, for the choir conducting (of which he later became assistant),[1] and Karl Österreicher, in Vienna, for orchestra conductingspecializing himself, among others, with John Eliot Gardiner, Ferdinand Leitner and Giovanni Acciai for musicology.
In the field of Opera he conducted numerous works of the baroque and classical period, favoring authors such as Händel, Gluck, Mozart, Rossini.
Many the collaborations, as conductor or choir master, both in the field of opera and symphonic, including with Claudio Abbado, Luciano Berio, Rudolf Buchbinder, Frans Brüggen, Giuliano Carmignola, Myung-whun Chung, Carlo Colombara, Enrico Dindo, Martin Fröst, Carlo Maria Giulini, Peter Maag, Lorin Maazel, Sara Mingardo, Michael Nyman, Arvo Pärt, Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič, Georges Prêtre, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Giovanni Sollima, Jeffrey Tate, Roman Vlad and many others.
He is a regular guest of the major concert companies and major Italian festivals of symphonic, ancient and contemporary music (Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena, Venice Biennale, Festival Monteverdi of Cremona, MITO SettembreMusica, Sagra Musicale Umbra and many others).
[13][14] He has collaborated in several projects on behalf of Feniarco, ECA-Europa Cantat, IFCM and in 2006 he was appointed by Prof. Bruno Cagli member of the scientific committee of the Gioachino Rossini Foundation in Pesaro.