Teresa Satalino

Teresa Satalino graduated very young in piano with the highest grades and continued her academic education with full marks in Composition, as well as in Orchestra Conducting, in Jazz Music and Music Teaching. Simultaneously with his musical studies he graduated in Literature with full marks and a thesis in History of Music on Laborintus II by Luciano Berio. She won numerous prizes in national piano competitions and in 2003 was selected for Bacchette in Rosa, a training course funded by the Ministry of Labor with internships at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. She then obtained a Master's degree in High School of Conducting studying with Jorma Panula, Bruno Bartoletti, Lu-Jia, Alain Lombard, Donato Renzetti and Piero Bellugi. She specialized in Jazz Arrangement and Composition in Siena Jazz and attended the Music for Film course with Ennio Morricone at the Chigiana Academy of Siena.

From 2018 he is Principal Director of AYSO, Apulian Youth Symphony Orchestra composed of about 70 musicians.

She has conducted concerts collaborating with Nir Kabaretti, musical director of the Santa Barbara Symphony, with the German violinist Gernot Süßmuth, Concertmaster of the Oregon Bach Festival and Intendente of the Nordrhein-Westfalen Festival Westfalen Classic, with cellist Jelena Ocic, professor at the Conservatorium in Amsterdam, with the first viola of the Berlin Staatskapelle, Felix Schwartz, with Luca Benucci, first horn of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, with the Brasses of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Mario Barsotti, Gabriele Malloggi, Fabiano Fiorenzani, Claudio Quintavalla, Emanuele Antoniucci, Alberto Serpente, Michele Canori, Simone Squarzolo, Nicola Martelli, Paolo Masi) and with the first trumpet of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Omar Tomasoni. She conducted 12 soloists and symphony orchestra at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for the world premiere of Francesco Traversi's The Gret Leap composition under the patronage of the Italian Space Agency. She was Director of the first Italian performance of Ayre, an extraordinary cycle of folksongs by the Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov with material from Arab, Jewish and Sephardic backgrounds with concerts also for the Time Zones Festival and for Matera Capital of Culture.

The German composer Michael Sens also entrusted her with the orchestra's leadership in the first world performance of one of his compositions. 

She has been conducting in International Festivals such as the Italian Brass Week, the Walton Foundation International Festival, the International Festival of Youth Orchestras in Florence, the Napoli Teatro Festival, the Festival of contemporary music UrtiCanti, the International Festival Carl Orff, the Ritratti Festival.

She has collaborated with the CMC Orchestra of New York.

She has directed shows with interaction between various media (music, dance, graphic arts, actors), collaborating, among others, with Miriam Makeba, Arnoldo Foà, Beppe Barra and with the dance company ResExtensa. She conceived and directed the Apulia project which debuted in Prague in the historic Sala Smetana and which has also been replicated in several Italian theaters.

At the same time he dedicated herself to teaching. She is currently a Professor at the "N.Rota" Conservatory of Monopoli (BA).