Antonio Greco

He has a diploma in Piano, Choral Music and Choir Conducting, and a degree in Renaissance Polyphony. He teaches Choral Exercises at the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory of Ravenna.
In 1993 he founded the Costanzo Porta Choir and in 2004 the Cremona Antiqua Orchestra, an ensemble on original instruments, under whose leadership he has given concerts in the most important Italian and European festivals. He has been assistant conductor to Sir John Eliot Gardiner and harpsichordist of the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists on numerous world tours. He has been collaborating since 2018, as choirmaster, with Ricardo Muti, with whom he has given Macbeth, Nabucco, Stabat Mater, Te Deum and Verdi's Messa da Requiem and Beethoven's 9th Symphony (Cherubini Orchestra, Coro Costanzo Porta/Cremona Antiqua). He has been choirmaster of Opera Lombardia, Opéra de Lausanne and Chorus "Luigi Cherubini." He has given masterclasses in Baroque Repertoire at Accademia "Celletti" in Martina Franca, Cajkovsky Conservatory in Moscow, Opera School in Bologna, Musica Antica at Palazzo di Genova, Festival Monteverdi in Cremona, and masterclasses in Choral Conducting at ASAC Veneto and Fondazione Guido d'Arezzo.
As a conductor, he has worked with Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Orchestra Luigi Cherubini, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, the OIDI Festival Baroque Ensemble, Orchestra della Magna Grecia, Cremona Antiqua, Orchestra "1813" of Teatro Sociale di Como, Baroque Opera Concert in Tokyo. In 2021 he was Music Director at Il Cantiere in Montepulciano. In the same year he was appointed Principal Music Director of the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, of which his two ensembles, under the name of Coro and Orchestra Cremona Antiqua, became the resident groups.
This leads him to bring to life, year after year, the great Monteverdi masterpieces: the Orfeo in 2022-021, the Vespro della Beata Vergine in 2022, performed in Cremona, Mantua, Milan, Perugia and Pordenone, as well as, leading the Liatoshynskyi Capella, in Kiev at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, in a project symbolic of brotherhood and sharing between two peoples.
This year Greco will conduct L'incoronazione di Poppea, directed by Pierluigi Pizzi, which will be staged at theaters in Cremona, Como, Pavia, Pisa and Ravenna.