Biography
Domenico Famà is an Italian conductor, composer, and classical guitarist.
Renowned for his interpretative research combining rigorous discipline with the highest expressiveness, he made his debut at the Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini in Catania in 2018.
Since 2020, he has been Music 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 (2025–2027), inaugurating his tenure with the New Year’s Concert 2025.
He is represented by international record labels such as Brilliant Classics and Da Vinci Classics, and has developed an active concert career enriched by prestigious collaborations in Italy and abroad, including: Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini (Catania), Orchestra della Magna Grecia (Taranto), 50^ Stagione lirica della Provincia di Lecce, Orchestra Sinfonica Brutia (Cosenza), Fondazione Taormina Arte, Istituti Italiani di Cultura (Valona, Tirana and Durazzo), Fondazione Festival Belliniano, Orchestra Classica Viva (Milano), Teatro Massimo Città di Siracusa, I Solisti Lucani (Matera), Fondazione Teatro Garibaldi (Modica), Festival Ville Vesuviane (Napoli), Trecastagni International Music Festival, Giovanni Paisiello Festival. Since 2023, he has worked as assistant conductor to Fabrizio Maria Carminati at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, to 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 album Fragments de temps (2021). He also composed Fantasia Belliniana (EMA Vinci Edizioni, 2025), written on commission for the Teatro Massimo Bellini on the occasion of the 190th anniversary of Vincenzo Bellini’s death, for which institution he also works as an orchestrator.
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. Among his most significant international collaborations are: Sumi Jo, Erica Piccotti, Albane Carrère, Hector Lopez, Giandomenico Vaccari, Asi Matathias, Stefania Rocca, Tiziana Donati, Emanuil Ivanov, and Oleksandra Fedosova. In 2025, he conducts the world premiere of Non c’è miele, a musical fable by Tommaso d’Agostini and Stefano Valanzuolo, with the Orchestra della Magna Grecia, and closes the 50^ Stagione lirica della Provincia di Lecce conducting María de Buenos Aires. He also writes for several cultural journals (including Incontri and La Sicilia e l’Altrove) and, since 2023, has been teaching at the Conservatorio di Musica Giovanni Paisiello in Taranto. Since 2025, he has been represented by Ilaria Scaffardi Artists Management.
Domenico Famà began studying classical guitar at the age of seven and gave his first solo recital at nine. He studied with Gilberto Serembe obtaining the Bachelor Diploma in Orchestral Conducting at the Italian Conducting Academy in Milan and the Master Diploma with honors and special mention at the Conservatorio Egidio Romualdo Duni in Matera with Pablo Varela. He further refined his conducting skills with György Györiványi Ráth, Daniele Agiman, Nicola Samale, and, in opera repertoire, with Fabrizio Maria Carminati. He graduated in Classical Guitar with full marks at the Conservatorio Stanislao Giacomantonio in Cosenza with Pietro Morelli, and subsequently became a student of the guitarist/composer Angelo Gilardino, studying at the Scuola Superiore di Musica Vallotti in Vercelli. He also obtained a Master Degree in Music Pedagogy with honors at the Conservatorio Vincenzo Bellini in Catania and studied composition and piano with Enrico Dibennardo.
Last update: January 2026
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