Colombian-Italian conductor Stefano Boccacci is a versatile opera, ballet, choral and contemporary music conductor. He has worked with professional orchestras and opera productions in both Europe, USA and Latin America.

He has just been awarded the Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship in partnership with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Boccacci will act as assistant to Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC SSO, he will also accompany the orchestra to its performances at the BBC Proms in London and the Edinburgh International Festival for the 2025/26 and 26/27 seasons.

Upcoming commitments include assistant conductor at the Colorado Music Festival (USA) and Peninsula Music Festival (USA) in the Summer of 2025.

He was the assistant conductor of the Yale Philharmonia at Yale University for the 2023/24 and 24/25 seasons, working with its principal conductor Peter Oundjian, as well as assisting Giancarlo Guerrero, Rune Bergmann, Earl Lee and Rossen Milanov. During his time at Yale he collaborated with composer Joan Tower, soloists such as Augustin Hadelich, went on tour to Carnegie Hall, and led the orchestra in several performances at the renowned Woolsey Hall in Connecticut.

Previous engagements include the Immling Opera Festival (Germany 2023, 2024), Ballet Cymru (UK 2022, 2023), Buxton International Opera Festival (UK 2022), and the Ensemble Multilatérale (France 2022).

In 2021 he made his debut with the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra and in 2019 with the Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera; that same year Mark Wigglesworth invited Boccacci to assist him with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, working on Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1. Earlier that year he worked as assistant conductor to Maxime Tortelier and the North Devon Sinfonia.

Over the years, he has conducted and assisted opera productions in the UK, Austria, Brazil, Colombia and USA. He has worked with conductors such as Carlo Rizzi, Daniela Candillari, David Jackson, Catherine Larsen-Maguire, Toby Purser and David Jones. His repertoire includes La Bohème, Suor Angelica, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Così fan tutte, Carmen, The Turn of the Screw, Albert Herring, The Rake’s Progress, María de Buenos Aires, Alcina, among others. In November 2020 he conducted a full production of Dido and Æneas at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He works as a vocal and language coach in Italian, French, German, English and Spanish.