Enrico Pagano

Graduating at a very young age in orchestral conducting, cello, and composition, Enrico Pagano – born in Rome in 1995 – is the Artistic Director of the Orchestra da Camera Canova. He is also Conductor-in-Residence and Artistic Advisor of the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti in Rome. Leading the Canova, which he founded at the age of 19, he has performed in venues such as the Arena di Verona, Teatro Dal Verme in Milan, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Sintra International Festival (Portugal), Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, Bergamo Culture Festival, Teatro Fraschini in Pavia, Teatro Sociale in Como, Accademia Chigiana in Siena, the Valletta Baroque Festival, the Vivaldi Festival in Venice, and the Aula Magna at La Sapienza University of Rome, among others.

He has collaborated with artists including Alessandro Baricco, Gloria Campaner, Daniela Barcellona, Luca Micheletti, Roberto Frontali, Silvia Colasanti, Leonora Armellini, Ruth Iniesta, Simone Zanchini, Thomas Hobbs, Gabriele Strata, Manuela Custer, Erica Piccotti, Vittorio Prato, and Tommaso Lonquich.

As a guest conductor, he has worked with institutions such as the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (Colasanti: L’ultimo viaggio di Sindbad), Teatro Verdi in Trieste (Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice), Festival della Valle d’Itria (Gassmann: Gli uccellatori), RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Turin, Reate Festival (Poulenc: La voix humaine & La dame de Monte-Carlo), Cherubini Orchestra in Ravenna, Brescia and Bergamo International Piano Festival, MiTo – Settembre Musica, I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, Teatro López de Ayala (Badajoz, Spain), and the Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

In May 2021, Sony Music released Enrico’s debut album, dedicated to the rediscovery of Giovanni Paisiello. This was followed in 2022 by a second album focused on Beethoven, which was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). Enrico has appeared on the covers of Amadeus magazine (July 2023), ClassicVoice (May 2024), and MUSICA – Rivista Musicale e Discografica (February 2025), each accompanied by a CD featuring him with the Canova Orchestra.

In March 2021, Forbes included him in its list of 100 Under 30 destined to shape the future of Italy.

Among his recent and upcoming engagements as guest conductor are debuts at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Donizetti Festival in Bergamo (Donizetti: Deux hommes et une femme & Il campanello), Teatro Municipale in Piacenza (Mozart: Don Giovanni), and in Tokyo with the Bunka Kaikan Chamber Orchestra.