Biography (English)
JUSTIN PAMBIANCHI, a versatile young conductor from Montreal at the outset of his career, has demonstrated his skills in the fields of opera and instrumental music.
Justin has served as a répétiteur and assistant conductor for productions at the Glimmerglass Festival (La gazza ladra, Porgy and Bess, Sweeney Todd), Opera on the Avalon (La bohème), Sarasota Opera (Madama Butterfly, Norma, Dialogues des Carmélites), the Accademia Europea dell’Opera (Don Giovanni, The Turn of the Screw), and elsewhere in Canada, the USA and Italy. Justin has collaborated with many conductors, including Joseph Colaneri, Boris Brott and John DeMain, as well as directors such as Peter Kazaras and Michael Cavanagh. Additionally, he has conducted performances of The Mikado with the McGill Savoy Society and Don Pasquale and Paride ed Elena with Oberlin in Italy.
Equally at home at the harpsichord, he has played continuo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Accademia Europea dell’Opera) as well as in orchestral and chamber works by Telemann, Biber, Campra and others.
Justin has served as a répétiteur and assistant conductor for productions at the Glimmerglass Festival (La gazza ladra, Porgy and Bess, Sweeney Todd), Opera on the Avalon (La bohème), Sarasota Opera (Madama Butterfly, Norma, Dialogues des Carmélites), the Accademia Europea dell’Opera (Don Giovanni, The Turn of the Screw), and elsewhere in Canada, the USA and Italy. Justin has collaborated with many conductors, including Joseph Colaneri, Boris Brott and John DeMain, as well as directors such as Peter Kazaras and Michael Cavanagh. Additionally, he has conducted performances of The Mikado with the McGill Savoy Society and Don Pasquale and Paride ed Elena with Oberlin in Italy.
Equally at home at the harpsichord, he has played continuo in Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Accademia Europea dell’Opera) as well as in orchestral and chamber works by Telemann, Biber, Campra and others.
Justin’s symphonic repertoire spans over 250 years of music. In 2013, he conducted in workshops and masterclasses in Bacau, Romania at the International Institute for Conductors. Justin is also a strong advocate of contemporary music and works regularly with composers. Most recently, he has enjoyed collaborating with Jason Noble, Donald Crockett and Don Freund.
Justin is an alumnus of McGill University, where he studied composition with Brian Cherney, piano with Ilya Poletaev and conducting with Paolo Bellomia and Alexis Hauser. He has written works for piano, wind sextet, voice and electronics, and more. He went on to complete graduate studies in orchestral conducting at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 2015, he was a recipient of the Ansbacher Fellowship for Young Conductors.
Currently based in Leipzig, Germany, Justin is half-Italian and half-Egyptian and speaks four languages.
Justin is an alumnus of McGill University, where he studied composition with Brian Cherney, piano with Ilya Poletaev and conducting with Paolo Bellomia and Alexis Hauser. He has written works for piano, wind sextet, voice and electronics, and more. He went on to complete graduate studies in orchestral conducting at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 2015, he was a recipient of the Ansbacher Fellowship for Young Conductors.
Currently based in Leipzig, Germany, Justin is half-Italian and half-Egyptian and speaks four languages.