Federico Scoponi Morresi

Federico Scoponi Morresi began his musical education studying piano and guitar, then completed his Academic studies in Musicology, Singing, Composition, Choir and Orchestral Conducting. Regarded as a specialist in early and baroque music, he founded various vocal/instrumental ensembles dedicated to the work of composers like G. Dufay, J. Ockeghem, J. Des Prés, C. Gesualdo da Venosa, C. Monteverdi, and in 1999 he gained the 2nd prize at the International Competition “Luca Marenzio” of Coccaglio (Brescia, Italy). After having spent a decade as a choral conductor, concurrently developing his career as a baritone and an actor, in 2003 he decided to devote himself to orchestral conducting, the ideal main purpose of his life and work. He has studied therefore in Italy and Sweden under the tuition of Isaac Karabtchevsky, Fabio Maestri, Gary Graden, Anders Eby and Michail Jurowski.

His career is now growing outside of Italy, mostly as an opera conductor. He has conducted youth orchestras in northern and western Europe, and in South America. Subsequent to his notable début in 2007 with the Orquesta Sinfònica de Venezuela at Teresa Carreño Theatre in Caracas, he has then been invited to conduct throughout the country. He has also conducted in Germany and France orchestras like the Berlin Sinfonietta and the Orchestre National de l’Île-de-France.

Federico S. Morresi is presently teaching at the “Conservatorio Statale di Musica N. Rota” in Monopoli (Bari, Italy), and since 2005 at the High Master Classes in Singing of the Lyric Academy in Osimo (Ancona, Italy) holding the biennial course The art of sacred and profane Baroque from Monteverdi to Mozart.
As said before, he gained years of experience working as a bass-baritone; he has sung under the batons of J. Tate, M. W. Chung, C. Abbado, M. Pletnev, A. Östman, E. Ericson, C. Thielemann, and has recorded for Stradivarius, Tactus, Sony, BBC.
He also works as an actor in movies, theatre, and for the Italian television.