BIOGRAPHY
"Conductor and clarinetist, former member of London Symphony Orchestra and founder/artistic director of Ensemble Ubertini in Italy"
Lorenzo Antonio Iosco is an Italian clarinetist and conductor based in Hong Kong where he is a member of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
Before moving to Asia in 2015, he studied the clarinet at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence from where he graduated with Distinction.
He then became a member at Madrid Opera House Teatro Real in Spain for three years and London Symphony Orchestra for seven years, respectively.
As a clarinetist, Lorenzo also worked extensively with Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Opera di Roma, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice in Venice, under the baton of renowned conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Simon Rattle, Daniel Harding, Andris Nelsons, Esa-Pekka Salonen, André Previn, Yuri Temirkanov, Semyon Bychkov, Lorin Maazel, Jaap Van Zweden Paavo Jarvi and Myung-Whun Chung.
As soloist he performed all major clarinet repertoire in Europe and Asia. Chamber music highlights include his London Wigmore Hall debut in collaboration with the London Conchord Ensemble in 2013, and performing as well as recording Mozart’s Gran Partita with the LSO woodwind ensemble in Switzerland, Italy and at LSO St. Lukes in London.
Lorenzo studied orchestral conducting with Piero Bellugi in Florence and Donato Renzetti in Rome. Recently he was invited to join the Gstaad Conducting Academy in Switzerland where he had the privilege of working closely with Jaap van Zweden and Johannes Schlaefli, who selected him to conduct in the Academy’s final concert.
Lorenzo is founder and artistic director of Ensemble Ubertini, a chamber orchestra based in Tuscany with international guest musicians. His main interest with the Ensemble is to rediscover some of the most important repertoire of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
In 2021, Lorenzo had his conducting debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, showcasing the music of Italian composer Nino Rota. Since then, he's been repeatedly invited to lead the orchestra for various musical programs.
In July 2023 made his conducting debut with Saigon Philharmonic Orchestra.
Future engagements will see Lorenzo conducting Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Saigon Philharmonic Orchestra, Kunming Nie Er Symphony Orchestra and Inner Mongolia Art Theatre Symphony Orchestra.
