Pietro Veneri born in Parma, where he studied piano and composition with Camillo Togni at the “A.Boito” Conservatorio and where he graduated in conducting with Daniele Gatti.
Since is debut as conductor in Bologna, Veneri collaborated with prestigious institutions, such as Tokyo Orchard Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Osaka Festival Hall, Dalhalla Festival, Parma Teatro Regio, Bologna Teatro Comunale, Nagoya Aichi Hall, Firenze Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Parma Auditorium Paganini, Tokyo Suntory Hall, Roma Auditorium della Conciliazione, Lodz Theatre Wielki, Lisbon Pavilhao Atlantico, Milano Sala Verdi, conducting orchestras such as C. Tokyo Philharmonic, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Comunale di Bologna, Sinfonica di Sanremo, Osaka Century, Haydn Bolzano, Yamagata Symphony, Sinfonia Varsovia, Virtuosi Italiani, Philarmonia Veneta.
Veneri collaborated with artists such as Roberto Cappello, Christoph Hartmann, Silvia Chiesa, Freddy Kempf, Josè Cura, Michele Pertusi, Renato Bruson.
Veneri has recorded for various record labels and for national and satellite Radio and Television in Italy, Japan, Portugal and Poland; furthermore conducted premieres of composers such as Mannucci (Sanremo Symphony), Rendine (Bologna Teatro Comunale), Furgeri (Bologna Teatro Comunale) and orchestrated version of Giuseppe Verdi Piano Variazioni and Richard Strauss Cello Sonata (Milano Sala Verdi). He has also conducted the Liszt/Zanfi international piano competition.
In addition to being assistant of Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Veneri has collaborated for conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, James Conlon, sir Neville Marriner, Charles Dutoit, Georges Pretre, and with all the major international opera singers and directors.
Veneri is professor of Conducting at the Conservatorio of Parma; furthermore he taught at the Conservatorio in Livorno, Adria, Vicenza, Pesaro, Torino, Modena and Bologna Lyrical Conducting at the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna; his students have won the first prize several times and/or came in the first three finalists in international competitions for Conducting in Milano, Madrid, Spoleto, Jerusalem, Karkhov, Orvieto, Vaduz, Ialomita and Plovdiv.
