Fernando Gaggini is an emerging Argentinian conductor known for his vibrant musicality, heartfelt interpretations, and advocacy for programming new works and music from underrepresented composers. He recently attended the Conducting Academy at Domaine Forget de Charlevoix in Québec, Canada, working with Mtros. Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Kensho Watanabe in daily lessons and masterclasses with the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal and the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec.

During the 2023/24 season, he’ll be guest conducting Binghamton University’s Fall opera production of Humperdinck’s Hänsel & Gretel. Continuing with his now 3 year-long collaboration with Boston University’s (BU) Opera Institute, Gaggini will be assisting and conducting in concert the Spring 2024 mainstage opera production of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito. After making his debut as guest assistant and conductor with the Boston Civic Symphony in April 2023, Gaggini will return to assist Francisco Noya in October and January 2024. Moreover, he will continue to assist and conduct the Boston University Symphony Orchestras in concerts throughout the season.

Gaggini is currently pursuing his DMA in Orchestral Conducting at BU under the guidance of James Burton. While at BU, he assisted William Lumpkin at the BU Opera Institute in mainstage productions of Jake Heggie’s If I Were You, Händel’s Alcina and conducted the 2022 Fringe Festival performances of Daniel Catán’s La Hija de Rappaccini. He collaborated with composer Gabriela Lena Frank in an open masterclass of her piece Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout during her 3-day residency. He served as assistant conductor to James Burton on Mahler’s Symphony No.2 Resurrection and Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem. He has also worked and assisted Jonathan McPhee and Mischa Santora and participated in workshops with Gil Rose and Stefan Asbury.

In 2019 he studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München with Marcus Bosch and Georg Fritzsch. During his time in Germany, he worked with the Münchener Kammerorchester, Münchner Symphoniker, Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock in workshops and conducted the Bad Reichenhaller Philharmoniker in concert.

Gaggini holds an MM degree in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati (CCM) where he studied with Mark Gibson and Aik-Khai Pung, served as assistant conductor to both the Philharmonia Orchestra and Concert Orchestra, and participated in masterclasses with Ken Lam and Neil Varon. Highlights of his performances at CCM include Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, Minkus’s ballet La Bayadere, Debussy’s Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra, Brahms’s Serenade No.2 and Bernstein’s Slava! overture. As part of the 2018 Opera Bootcamp summer program, he conducted Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in concert.

Originally from Buenos Aires, Gaggini graduated with his Bachelor in Orchestral Conducting at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina in 2015 where he studied with Carlos Vieu.