Biography

Domenico Famà is an Italian conductor, composer, and classical guitarist.

Appreciated for his interpretative depth that combines strict discipline with maximum expressiveness, he made his debut at the Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini in Catania in 2018.
Since 2020, he has served as the music and artistic director of the Orchestra da Camera Orfeo, which he founded in Catania. In 2024, he was appointed conductor-in-residence of ASAM Siracusa for the opera and symphonic seasons of the Teatro Massimo Città di Siracusa, for the 2025–2027 period, beginning with the New Year’s Concert 2025.

He is represented by several international record labels, including Brilliant Classics and Da Vinci Classics, and has an active concert career enriched by prestigious collaborations both in Italy and abroad, including: Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini, Orchestra della Magna Grecia (Taranto), Orchestra Sinfonica Brutia (Cosenza), Fondazione Taormina Arte, the Italian Cultural Institutes of Vlorë, Tirana and Durrës, Fondazione Festival Belliniano, Orchestra Classica Viva (Milano), Teatro Massimo Città di Siracusa, Fondazione Teatro Garibaldi (Modica), Festival delle Ville Vesuviane (Napoli), Trecastagni International Music Festival (Catania), and Associazione Musicale Mascagni (Siracusa). Since 2023, he has worked as assistant conductor to Fabrizio Maria Carminati at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Giacomo Sagripanti at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, and since 2024, to Salvatore Percacciolo at both the Teatro Massimo Bellini and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Palermo.
He is an ordinary member of the Sibelius Society Italia.

As a composer, he has been part of the Da Vinci Publishing family (Osaka) since 2018, for which he has written several chamber works, all distributed worldwide by Hal Leonard and collected in the 2021 album Fragments de temps.
He also composed Fantasia Belliniana in commemoration of the 190th anniversary of Vincenzo Bellini’s death, commissioned by the Teatro Massimo Bellini (where he also worked as orchestrator) and the Quartetto d’Archi Catanese.

In 2022, Brilliant Classics released his first album as a conductor, Music for Strings, dedicated to works by Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Elgar, and Fuchs.
At the end of 2023, he recorded a second album with the same Dutch label, Romanza, featuring works by Sibelius, Barber, Britten, and Pärt, released in July 2024.

He collaborates with internationally acclaimed artists such as soprano Sumi Jo, Israeli violinist Asi Matathias, Bulgarian pianist Emanuil Ivanov, and Ukrainian violinist Oleksandra Fedosova.
He hosts the program I Protagonisti on Radio Mozart Italia, writes for several cultural journals (Incontri, La Sicilia e l’Altrove), and since 2023 has been teaching at the Giovanni Paisiello Conservatory of Music in Taranto.

Domenico began studying classical guitar at 7 years old and gave his first solo recital at the age of 9. He brilliantly graduated in conducting (Master degree) with honors and mention at the Conservatorio Egidio Romualdo Duni in Matera with Pablo Varela; he also obtained the orchestral conducting diploma (three years bachelor) at the Italian Conducting Academy in Milan with Gilberto Serembe and improved his skills studying with György Györiványi Ráth, Daniele Agiman, Nicola Hansalik Samale and Fabrizio Maria Carminati. He graduated in classical guitar with full marks at the Conservatorio Stanislao Giacomantonio in Cosenza and then became a student of the guitarist/composer Angelo Gilardino, graduating also at the Scuola Superiore Francesco Antonio Vallotti in Vercelli. He also achieved the Master degree in Music Pedagogy with full marks and honors in Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini in Catania; he studied composition and piano with Enrico Dibennardo and deepened his musical studies with Fabrizio Maria Carminati, Pietro Morelli, Luigi Attademo, Guido Salvetti.

In 2025, he is planning new collaborations with the Orchestra della Magna Grecia, Taranto Opera Festival, I Solisti Lucani (Matera), Orchestra Brutia (Cosenza), Teatro Massimo Bellini (Catania), Teatro Massimo di Siracusa, and the EUSIPCO 2025 festival in Segesta.

Updated July 2025

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