Marzio Conti began his career as a flutist ,making his debut at the Salzburg Festival at the age of twenty with “I Solisti Veneti”.
He has been considered internationally as one of the exponents of the flute of his generation, playing, recording and teaching classes for the most important international institutions.
He decides to leave his concert activity in the mid-nineties to devote himself entirely to conducting.
Student of Piero Bellugi, Marzio Conti soon began to be named titular director in several Italian orchestras and abroad, and since then he has been developing an activity that leads him constantly to direct prestigious orchestras and theatres around the world, varying from the symphonic repertoire to the opera ; he often collaborates with important and famous ballet companies.
His recordings are numerous for some of the best international record labels ( Warner Classic, Chandos, Naxos, CPO, Brillant..)
Active in the diffusion and promotion of various aspects of the cultured music, Marzio Conti has frequently been part of television and radio programs, promoting, in addition to the traditional symphonic repertoire and opera , contemporary music with participation in important international broadcasts.
Since the beginning of his career as a director, Marzio Conti has always held positions as principal and artistic director in several Italian and foreign orchestras; his last position has been in Spain as titular director of Oviedo Filarmonia from 2011 to 2017, receiving great prizes including the prestigious Gold Medal Auditorium of Oviedo, considered the maximum artistic recognition of the city; among other things in recent years he has been several times Jury of the Arts in the Princess of Asturias Awards.
In his career he has played, directed and recorded with some of the greatest soloists, singers, stage directors, dancers and choreographers of the international scene.
Mr. Conti has appeared as guest conductor in Italy with the Rome Opera, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Teatro Massimo of Palermo), Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Teatro Donizetti Bergamo, Teatro di Ravenna, Teatro di Bolzano , Teatro del Giglio di Lucca, Teatro Bellini Catania, Teatro Verdi Pisa, Teatro Comunale di Livorno, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Orchestra Haydn, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Teatro La Fenice Auditorium de la Rai di Torino as soloist.
In Spain, he has conducted Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Orquesta Sinfonica de Bilbao, Orquesta de Tenerife, Orquestra de Extremadura, Orquestra de la Gran Canaria, Orquestra de las Baleares, Teatro Arriaga Bilbao, Orquesta de Navarra ,Orquesta Nacional d’Andorra ..
In Germany, he has conducted the Dortmund Staatsoper, Saarbrücken Staatsoper, Dessau Stadtsoper, Monchegladbach Stadtoper, and Brandemburger Symphoniker..
In France, he has conducted the Orchestra Regional de Cannes e de la Cote d’Azur, Orchestre da La Picardie, Opera de Marseille, and Orchestre d'Avignon…
Elsewhere, he has conducted the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Korean National Symphony Orchestra and Pusan Philharmonic (Korea), National State Orchestra of Athens, Teatro del Bicentenario (Mexico), Teatro Nacional de Costa Rica, Opera de Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Orquesta Sinfonica de Porto and Orquesta Metropolitana de Lisboa (Portugal), and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra (Israel), Dutch National Opera and Ballet (Holland)..
He has conducted his orchestras at important European venues such as The Auditorio Nacional de Madrid, Palau de la Musica de Barcelona, Parco della Musica Rome, Teatro Megaron Athens, King David Auditorium Tel Aviv and Finlandiatalon Helsinky Musikalle Hamburg Munich Theatre (Germany) Queen Elisabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall in London as soloist.
Notable soloists with whom he has collaborated include Monserrat Caballè, Barbara Hendricks, Bryn Terfel , Mariella Devia ,Renato Bruson, Leo Nucci , Misha Maisky, Midori, Natalia Gutman, Lin Harrell, Gary Hoffman, Rudolph Buchbinder, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Elisso Vissaladze, , Sabine Mayer, Jean Pierre Rampal, Alain Marion, Maurice Andre, Maurice Bourgue, Max Chamaiou, Brigitte Engerer, Javier De Maistre, Bruno Canino,Piotr Bezcala, Roberto Alagna, Vittorio Grigolo.
Dancers and choreographers Carla Fracci, Yuri Grigorovich, Patrice Bart, Roland Petit, Frederic Flamand, Jean- Christophe Maillot, Alexei Ratmansky, Hans Van Manen,David Dawson, Ted Brandsen and directors such as Calisto Bieto, Emilio Sagi, La Fura del Baus, Lindsey Kemp, Ugo Gregoretti…
Since 2014 he collaborates as guest conductor and professor with Jacob School of Music , Indiana University , Bloomington and he is guest conductor, since 2017, of AIMS Festival in Graz .