Enrico Pagano

Selected by Forbes as one of the 100 Under 30 that will change Italy, the Roman conductor Enrico Saverio Pagano is the artistic director of the Orchestra da Camera Canova. Conductor in residence and Artistic Advisor of the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti (Rome), leading the Orchestra Canova (that Enrico founded at the age of 19) he performed more in locations such as the Arena di Verona, the Teatro Dal Verme di Milan, the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, the International Music Festival in Sintra (Portugal), the Teatro Alighieri di Ravenna, the Festival della cultura di Bergamo, the Teatro Fraschini di Pavia, the Teatro Sociale di Como, the Accademia Chigiana di Siena, the Valletta Baroque Festival, the Vivaldi Festival di Venezia and  the Aula Magna of La Sapienza Università di Roma. He collaborated with artists such as Alessandro Baricco, Gloria Campaner, Daniela Barcellona, Luca Micheletti, Roberto Frontali, Silvia Colasanti, Leonora Armellini, Ruth Iniesta, Simone Zanchini, Thomas Hobbs, Manuela Custer, Erica Piccotti, Vittorio Prato and Tommaso Lonquich.

As guest conductor, Enrico collaborated with the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (Colasanti: L’ultimo viaggio di Sindbad), Teatro Verdi di Trieste (Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice), the Festival della Valle d’Itria (Gassmann: Gli Uccellatori), the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, the Haydn Orchester in Bozen, the MiTo Festival, the Reate Festival (Poulenc: La Dame de Monte-Carlo & La voix humaine), the Festival pianistico internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo, the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali (Milan), the Orchestra Cherubini in Ravenna, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, the Teatro Lopez de Ayala in Badajoz (Spain) and the Choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Enrico's first album was published by Sony Music in May 2021, and was followed by the second one dedicated to Beethoven in 2022 and nominated at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). In July 2023 and in May 2024 Enrico appeared on both magazines Amadeus and ClassicVoice, which dedicated their cover to him and published two different albums dedicated to Mozart. In February 2025, Enrico also appeared on the cover of the magazine MUSICA.

His recent and future engagement include the debuts at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, the Donizetti Festival di Bergamo (Donizetti: Deux hommes et une femme & Il campanello), the Teatro Municipale di Piacenza and in Tokyo with the Bunka Kaikan Chamber Orchestra.