GIAMBATTISTA GIOCOLI
artistic director and director of the Baraccano Orchestra
Initially a clarinetist, born in 1976 in Matera, he studied clarinet in his hometown and then graduated from the Bologna Conservatory.
As an instrumentalist he studied with Perrone, Quarenghi, Tirincanti, Pay and Carbonare, immediately starting an intense concert activity in Italy and abroad.
He makes recordings for Italian and foreign radios, recording several classical and contemporary music CDs.
For 10 years he collaborated with the opera and symphonic seasons of the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna with which he made many tours in Italy and abroad.
He has collaborated with the FontanaMIX Contemporary Music ensemble of Bologna and with the Sentieri Selvaggi ensemble of Milan, with a concert activity in Europe and Asia.
In 2013 he made his debut as conductor in the production of American musicals and in the same year he founded the Baraccano Orchestra, with which he produced chamber musical theater projects and symphonic projects which he still carries on tour.
Since 2015 he has been collaborating as guest conductor with the Orchestra of the Toscanini Foundation of Parma and since 2017 with the Rossini Symphony Orchestra of Pesaro. In 2018 he also began to collaborate with the Lucana Orchestra Foundation and the Virtuosi dell'Opera Italiana.
In 2021, with his orchestra, he will be on tour in the Czech Republic.
He is artistic director of the Baraccano Theater of Bologna and of the musical theater research and production project ATTI SONORI in Bologna.
Contact details:
e-mail: giambattistagiocoli@gmail.com