This season Peleggi has dedicated herself largely to maintaining a concert season in Richmond throughout the pandemic. However, she took time out for a highly successful debut with the Brussels Philharmonic and to conduct a streamed concert with the Orchestra della Toscana in her hometown of Florence, part of which was also filmed to be shown at the International Economic Forum at Davos. In Summer 2021 she makes her Garsington Opera debut conducting Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, with the Philharmonia Orchestra in the pit. 2021 also saw the release of her first CD, featuring a cappella works by Villa Lobos in a new critical edition for Naxos, guest edited by Ms Peleggi and performed by the Sao Paulo Symphony Chorus.
In early 2022 she will conduct a new production at the Opera de Lyon, in her debut at the house, and will return to the Teatro Verdi di Trieste for Rigoletto. Upcoming symphonic guest conducting includes: Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Orquesta Gulbenkian, Fondazione Lirico e Sinfonica Teatri di Bari, I Pomeriggi di Milano, Norrkoping Symphony, Antwerp Symphony, National Symphony RTE, Residentie Orkest den Haag and Orchestre Philharmonique Royale de Liege.
Ms Peleggi previously served as Resident Conductor of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the São Paulo Symphony Chorus. During her years with the Sao Paulo Symphony Peleggi conducted many subscription concerts, created innovative community projects and continues to return as a guest. She won the APCA Prize in 2016 as Conductor of the Year from the Sao Paulo Society of Critics of the Arts and was voted “Young Talent of 2017” by readers of Brazil’s specialist music magazine Revista Concerto. She currently holds the position of Guest Music Director of the Theatro Sao Pedro, responsible for Italian opera, and is also invited to the Theatro Municipale de Sao Paulo in 2021.
The first Italian woman to enter the conducting programme at the Royal Academy of Music of London, she graduated with distinction and was awarded the DipRAM for an outstanding final concert as well as numerous other prizes, and was recently honoured with the title of Associate. She assisted Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Semyon Bychkov and Christian Thielemann, and furthered her studies with David Zinman and Daniele Gatti at the Zurich Tonhalle and at the Royal Concertgebouw masterclasses. She won the 2014 Conducting Prize at the Festival International de Inverno Campos do Jordão, received a Bruno Walter Foundation Scholarship at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in California, and the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship 2015-2017 under Marin Alsop.
Peleggi holds a Master in Conducting with honours from the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, and in 2013 was awarded the Accademia Chigiana’s highest award, going on to assist Bruno Campanella and Gianluigi Gelmetti at Teatro Regio di Torino, Opera Bastille Paris, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro Regio di Parma and Teatro San Carlo. She also assisted on a live worldwide broadcast and DVD production of Rossini's Cenerentola with the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI. From 2005 to 2015 she was the Principal Conductor and Music Director of the University Choir in Florence and remains their Honorary Conductor, receiving a special award from the Government in 2011 in recognition of her work there.
Ms Peleggi is passionate about the arts and holds a master in Comparative Literature
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