Nil Venditti
(c) Marco Borelli
Italo-Turkish conductor Nil Venditti, 29, has been named Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia from 2024/25. Venditti trained in conducting at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste under the guidance of Johannes Schlaefli, as well as attending the Conducting Academy associated with the Pärnu Music Festival under Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi and Leonid Grin.
Venditti was awarded first prize at the national Premio Claudio Abbado for young musicians in 2015 at the age of 20 and won two prizes at the Jeunesses Musicales competition in Bucharest in 2017. She was Principal Guest Conductor from June 2020 until May 2022 of Orchestra della Toscana.
