Biography
Domenico Famà. Conductor, composer and classical guitarist, Domenico Famà is acclaimed for his interpretive artistry, combining rigorous musicianship with the utmost expressiveness. He made his conducting debut in 2018 at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania and, since 2020, has been Music Director of the Orchestra da Camera Orfeo. Since 2022, he has been a regular guest of the Teatro Massimo di Siracusa, where in 2025 he was appointed conductor in residence of the Associazione Siracusana Amici della Musica for the 2025–2027 opera and symphonic seasons. Versatile across the symphonic, operatic and contemporary repertoire, he has pursued an intense concert career, enriched by prestigious collaborations in Italy and abroad.
In 2022 and 2023, he conducted two editions of the Festival Belliniano in Catania, collaborating with soprano Sumi Jo. During the same period, he began a collaboration with the Orchestra ICO della Magna Grecia, making his debut at the Teatro Orfeo in Taranto with pianist Emanuil Ivanov. With the same orchestra, in 2025 he toured Albania with an opera production staged at the major theatres of Vlorë, Tirana and Durrës, and conducted the world premiere of Non c’è miele, a contemporary musical fairy tale.
Since 2022, he has been a regular guest of the symphonic seasons of the Trecastagni International Music Festival in Catania, collaborating with soloists including Asi Matathias and Oleksandra Fedosova. In 2025, he made his debut in the symphonic season of the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania and, the following year, conducted in the opera season of the same theatre, leading the world premiere of Joe Schittino’s contemporary opera Le Nozze dell’Orso, directed by Davide Garattini.
He is also a guest conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Brutia at the Teatro Rendano in Cosenza and of the Solisti Lucaniof Matera, with cellist Erica Piccotti, and was invited by the Giovanni Paisiello Festival in Taranto to conduct Paisiello’s oratorio La Passione. In 2025, he conducted Astor Piazzolla’s Maria de Buenos Aires in the opera season of the Teatro Apollo in Lecce, directed by Giandomenico Vaccari and featuring Stefania Rocca. In 2026, he collaborated with the Young Musicians European Orchestra for the Easter Concerts in Ravenna and Forlì, alongside violinist Andrea Cicalese. In the same year, he conducted the Grand Opera Gala at the Teatro Greco in Siracusa, under the patronage of UNESCO and dedicated to Italian opera, featuring Francesca Sassu, Valerio Borgioni and Dario Sogos.
In 2022, the label Brilliant Classics released his first album as a conductor, Music for Strings, devoted to works for string orchestra by Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Elgar and Fuchs. At the end of 2023, he recorded Romanza for the same Dutch label, an album dedicated to Sibelius, Barber, Britten and Pärt.
As a composer, since 2018 he has collaborated with Da Vinci Publishing in Osaka, for which he has written numerous chamber works, distributed by Hal Leonard Europe and collected in the album Fragments de temps (2021). In 2025, he composed Fantasia Belliniana (EMA Vinci Edizioni) to mark the 190th anniversary of the death of Vincenzo Bellini, commissioned by the opera institution in Catania. In 2026, he composed Ave Maria, Vox Pacis (Edizioni Musicali Eleutheria) for the Mysterium Festival in Taranto, performed under the direction of Günter Neuhold and featuring soprano Rocio Faus. Also in 2026, commissioned by the Festival Respighi Bologna, he composed La mia sera, homage to Ottorino Respighi.
Since 2023, he has served as assistant conductor to Fabrizio Carminati and Giacomo Sagripanti and, since 2024, to Salvatore Percacciolo, in Catania, Florence, Bari and Palermo. He is a member of the Sibelius Society Italia and, since 2023, has been a faculty member at the Conservatorio “Giovanni Paisiello” di Taranto.
Originally from Catania, he began his musical studies at the age of seven and trained in Milan, Vercelli, Cosenza, Matera and Catania, graduating with full marks, honours and an honourable mention. Among the teachers who contributed to his artistic training and career are Gilberto Serembe, Angelo Gilardino, Fabrizio Maria Carminati, György Ráth, Pablo Varela, Daniele Agiman, Enrico Dibennardo and Pietro Morelli.
Last update: August 2026
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