FORM (Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche) – Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana is one of the thirteen Italian Orchestral Concert Institutions recognised by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities.
The Orchestra tackles both the symphonic and operatic repertoire with remarkable flexibility and ductility on an artistic-interpretive level, ranging from the Baroque to the 20th century to contemporary music.
The orchestra carries out a rich symphonic season in the region, performing some of its productions also at prestigious Italian theatres and concert societies, and participates in important opera events: it is the resident orchestra of the Macerata Opera Festival, has been the resident orchestra for the opera seasons of the Teatro delle Muse in Ancona and the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi, and is the reference orchestra for the seasons of the theatres of the Rete Lirica delle Marche (Teatro dell’Aquila in Fermo, Teatro della Fortuna in Fano, Teatro Ventidio Basso in Ascoli Piceno).
Fondazione Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana
In the course of its activity, the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana has performed with great interpreters such as Gidon Kremer, Natalia Gutman, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Ivo Pogorelich, Uto Ughi, Salvatore Accardo, Alexander Lonquich, Mario Brunello, Enrico Dindo, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariella Devia, I solisti della Scala, I solisti dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, under the guidance of internationally renowned conductors, such as Gustav Kuhn (Principal Conductor from 1997 to 2003), Woldemar Nelsson (Principal Guest Conductor from 2004 to 2006), Donato Renzetti (Principal and Artistic Conductor from 2006 to 2013), Hubert Soudant (Principal Conductor from 2015 to 2019), Alessandro Bonato (Principal Conductor from 2021 to 2022), Daniel Oren, Bruno Campanella, Bruno Bartoletti, Daniele Callegari, Paolo Arrivabeni, Paolo Carignani, Corrado Rovaris, Anton Nanut, Michele Mariotti and Andrea Battistoni.
FORM-Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana has toured Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, France, Oman, Israel and Palestine.
In February 2019, it performed in concert form, under the baton of Daniele Callegari, Bellini’s Il pirata as part of the prestigious opera season of the Grand Théatre de Genève.
On 22nd February 2022, the Orchestra debuted with extraordinary success at the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, as part of the ‘Musik der Meister’ season.
Precisely because of its flexibility, the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana promotes and collaborates on projects that go beyond the classical and contemporary symphonic repertoire; The Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana promotes and collaborates with artists from the national and international jazz scene, such as Paolo Fresu, Danilo Rea, Javier Girotto, Fabrizio Bosso, Martin Wind, Joe La Barbera, as well as with artists from the world of Italian songwriting, such as Gino Paoli, Lucio Dalla, Francesco De Gregori and more recently Max Gazzé (Concert of 1st May 2018 in Rome, Piazza S. Giovanni).
FORM’s current Artistic Advisor is Vincenzo De Vivo.
The Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana performs an average of ninety concerts a year, twenty of which are intended for school audiences and educational activities, with over twenty thousand spectators in attendance. It also participates in about forty opera performances a year, both regionally and internationally.
The activities of FORM-Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana are supported by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, the Marche Region, and the Municipalities of Ancona, Macerata, Fermo, Fano and Fabriano.
The Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana has produced several recordings, including: La Serva Padrona and Stabat Mater by G.B. Pergolesi; Guntram by R. Strauss; Rossini Ouvertures; Le nozze di Figaro by W. A. Mozart; Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio and Preludi and Ouverture by G. Verdi; Sinfonia n. 9 by G. Mahler; Music by L. A. Lebrun, A. Salieri and R. Strauss for oboe and orchestra – soloist Francesco Di Rosa, conductor Alessio Allegrini (AMADEUS, May 2013); it has also recorded several operas on DVD: Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore produced by RAI, Offenbach’s I racconti di Hoffmann, Verdi’s Macbeth, Bellini’s Norma, Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda.