Giordano Bellincampi

INTRODUCTION

Giordano Bellincampi is the Music Director of the Auckland Philharmonia.

Bellincampi enjoys regular relationships as a guest with numerous orchestras and musical institutions around the world, from Scandinavia and Europe, through North America to Asia and Australasia. With an enormous repertoire embracing classical, romantic, and contemporary music, he is particularly celebrated for his prowess in the Central European, Italian, and Scandinavian symphonic traditions, and for his interpretations of significant choral and vocal works.

RECENT AND FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS

The 2026/27 season sees Giordano Bellincampi return to the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and conduct the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, as well as making appearances with the Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM). His 2025/26 season highlights included conducting the George Enescu Philharmonic and returning to Toledo and Jacksonville Symphony Orchestras. In the 2024/25 season, he made his debut with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conducted the Toledo Symphony Orchestra (Ohio), returned to the Estonian National Symphony, and showcased his signature versatility with the Auckland Philharmonia with a repertoire that spans from Schumann’s 3rd Symphony and Respighi’s Roman Trilogy to a concert staging of La Bohème. During the 2023/24 season, Bellincampi conducted signature repertoire with the Auckland Philharmonia, including the fifth symphonies of Mahler and Mendelssohn, returned to conduct the Estonian National Symphony and the Queensland Symphony, and made his long-awaited debut with the Sydney Symphony.

In the Nordic Countries

Among Maestro Bellincampi’s most recent/future engagements in Scandinavia are conducting Tosca (season 2023/24), the season-opening concert ‘The Beauty of Nature’, and La bohème (2025/26) at the Göteborg Opera in Sweden. His projects also feature the beloved Danish Opera i Rebild, as well as leading the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra in multiple concerts. Among his notable engagements has also been conducting the Copenhagen Philharmonic in Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs and in a concert at Tivoli Concert Hall. His Nordic highlights also include concerts at Malmö Opera, a concert with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra (part of the Helsingborg Piano Festival), a concert with the Odense Symphony Orchestra (part of the Nielsen Festival), and Dvorák’s Cello Concerto, Op.104 (B minor) with Sønderjylland Symphony Orchestra.

BIOGRAPHY

Italian-Danish conductor Giordano Bellincampi has been Music Director of the Auckland Philharmonia since 2016 – the longest tenure of any of the orchestra’s Music Directors in its 44-year history. Following the conclusion of the orchestra’s 2027 Season, he will take up the role of Music Director Laureate, in recognition of his immense contribution to the orchestra’s artistic excellence and international standing.

Previously, he was the Principal Conductor of I Pomeriggi Musicali, Milan, Chief Conductor of the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra from 2013–2018, General Music Director of the Duisburg Philharmonic from 2012–2017, General Music Director of the Danish National Opera, Aarhus from 2005–2013, Music Director of the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra from 2000–2006 and, between 1997–2000, he was also Chief Conductor of the Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen, the leading contemporary ensemble in Denmark.

Bellincampi enjoys regular relationships as a guest with numerous orchestras and musical institutions around the world, from Scandinavia and Europe, through North America to Asia and Australasia. With an enormous repertoire embracing classical, romantic, and contemporary music, he is particularly celebrated for his prowess in the Central European, Italian, and Scandinavian symphonic traditions, and for his interpretations of significant choral and vocal works.

Bellincampi has excelled in the field of opera since making his debut with the Royal Opera in Copenhagen with La Bohème in 2000. He has since then conducted many of the great Italian works at the Royal Opera with particular focus on Puccini and Verdi, including leading their acclaimed new production of Aida at the opening of their new theatre in 2005. He has also appeared extensively with Deutsche Oper am Rhein, conducting such titles as Luisa Miller, Norma, and Cavalleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci. Whilst Music Director of the Danish National Opera, Bellincampi conducted works such as Der Rosenkavalier, Der Fliegende Holländer, Tristan und Isolde, Don Giovanni, and Die Zauberflöte. He also maintains close connections with many of the world’s leading opera singers, including Angela Gheorghiu, Joseph Calleja, and Roberto Alagna, regularly working with them in orchestral galas and recitals, as well as being a much-requested accompanist by leading instrumentalists such as Sarah Chang and Angela Hewitt.

Bellincampi’s extensive discography includes Ross Harris’s 6th Symphony for Naxos with the Auckland Philharmonia, numerous recordings for the Da Capo and Marco Polo labels of Danish composers from the classical era through to the present day including Holmboe, Lumbye, Joachim Andersen, Per Norgard, Ole Schmidt and Ib Glindemann, and the premiere recording of Weyse’s opera Sovedrikken, as well as Italian opera arias with Liping Zhang and the Prague Philharmonia, Nielsen’s Third Symphony for EMI Classics, and works by Svendsen and Walton. With the Duisburg Philharmonic, he released Nielsen’s Violin Concerto with soloist Kolja Blacher.

Born in Italy and moving to Copenhagen at a young age, he began his career as a trombonist with the Royal Danish Orchestra before making his professional conducting debut in 1994. As Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy, Giordano Bellincampi is dedicated to the work of educating the coming generations of orchestra musicians and conductors, and he also regularly gives masterclasses and serves as a jury member for several international conducting competitions. In 2010, he was created a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, an award bestowed by the Danish Royal Family for services to Danish culture, and he also holds the title of Cavaliere from the President of Italy for his international promotion of Italian music.