Stefan Lano

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Stefan Lano was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and he began his musical career as a composer and pianist.

In 1976, he initiated in the symphonic genre as composer and conductor with the premiere of his Symphony nº 1 in the Festival of Music of Newport. After his graduation in Harvard and the acquisition of a Fullbright scholarship to study in Germany, Lorin Maazel summoned him to enter in the Opera of Vienna.

In 1988, he was nominated the associate conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, where he worked both in the symphonic area and in the operistic one. Also he has worked in Europe, where recently he has conducted Turandot by Puccini in Hamburg; Jakob Lenz and Die Eroberung von Mexico by Wolfgang Rihm in Bonn and Nuremberg, the premiere of Rashomon by Mayako Kubo in Graz, Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, in Basel and Munich and the acclaimed productions of The Rake's Progress by Stravinsky, Elektra by Strauss and Jenůfa by Janáček, in Basel.

He has conducted the Pittsburgh Symphonic Orchestra, the Yomiuri Symphony of Japan, the Basler Symphoniker, the Nürnberger Philharmoniker and Symphoniker, the Rio de Janeiro Orchestra.... Lano was invited to inaugurate the 1993 season of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and since then, he has been a regular guest in this city, conducting Wozzeck and Bluebeard's Castle, L'amour des trois oranges, Die tote Stadt and Salome. He has been conductor of the Salzburg Festival, La Scala of Milan, the Liceu of Barcelona and the Opera of Cincinnati. Lano continues with his composing tasks: he has completed recently his Symphony nº 3, and Eikasia Variations for brass quintet stands out his works of chamber music, which has been recorded by the Philharmonic of Vienna.