Francesco Cilluffo

He has worked as assistant conductor in the United States (Lyric Opera of Chicago and Hollywood Bowl Orchestra) and Europe (Gewandhaus, Leipzig, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen Opera House, Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg, and Teatro La Fenice, Venice).

Among his recent conducting engagements are Zemlinsky's Der König Kandaules at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde at the Festival della Valle d'Itria, a tour of concerts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago in Chile (featuring music by Rossini, Haydn and Mendelssohn), Marco Tutino's opera The Servant at the Teatro Rossini in Lugo and Mozart's Requiem (edited by Robert D. Levin) with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino in Turin.

He also conducted Luigi Cherubini's Requiem in C minor with the orchestra and chorus of the Accademia Stefano Tempia in Turin[3] and an all-Handel concert with the same company.

His cantata for the 150th anniversary of the Italian unification, Voci di tenebra azzurra (for chorus, mezzo-soprano and orchestra), was premiered at the 2011 Festival della Valle d'Itria to much critical acclaim.

His last song cycle for soprano and string orchestra, The Land to Life again, was premiered at the Festival Incontri in Terra di Siena in 2012.