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Now in his fifth season as conductor of the Highland Park
Strings, Francesco Milioto has established himself as one of
this city’s most talented and sought-after musicians. The
Chicago Tribune has called him "one of the best young
conductors working in the Chicago area." In addition to his
podium activities, he exercises his prodigious piano skills as
a chamber musician, collaborative pianist and vocal coach.
Since 2003 Milioto has been engaged as an assistant
conductor and regular rehearsal pianist at the Ravinia
Festival where this past summer he worked closely with
Maestro James Conlon, the CSO and soloists on a production
of Puccini’s Tosca.
This year he will return to the Los Angeles Opera as assistant conductor to Maestro
Patrick Summers to work on Puccini’s La Boheme. Milioto also is music director of the
Skokie Valley Symphony, and the New Millennium Orchestra, which will be featured
at Symphony Center and the Harris Theater during the upcoming season. As artistic
director of Access Contemporary Music, he will lead concerts and a tour of Toronto
before returning to Opera on the James in Lynchburg, Va., for a production of
Donizetti’s L’Elisir D’Amore.
"As for the Brahms, …the ensemble performed it with vigor and style delivering what might be
called the "downtown sound" associated with such repertoire."
– Dorothy Andries, Pioneer Press
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