Eliano’s musical studies (Classical Guitar, Lute, Composition, Choral conducting and Orchestral conducting) were achieved under the guidance of his grandfather since age of six and later with great Artists as Mario Gangi, Adriano Guarnieri, Annibale Gianuario and Bruno Campanella, whom he assisted at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Firenze when he was still a student. Eliano also studied at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with M. Franco Ferrara.
For four years between 1973 and 1976 Eliano was Chapel Master of S. Lorenzo Cathedral in Firenze as well as the Assistant Musical Director of Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral Choir He founded his first orchestra in 1974 (Complesso Cameristico di Firenze)
From 1982 to 1995 he has been Professor of Chamber Music at "Conservatorio Statale di Musica di Salerno (1983 - 88) and "Conservatorio di Musica Giovanbattista Martini di Bologna" (1988 - 1995)
Eliano has been invited to perform by many Music institutions, as follows:
Berliner Simphonietta,
Orchestra da camera de Petropolis in Brazil,
Fillarmonici di Torino,
Orchestra of Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari,
Orchestra da Camera di Bologna,
Eugene Symphony Orchestra, USA
Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina
Glinka Chapel Chorus and Orchestra, S.Petersburg
Orchestra da camera di La Spezia,
l’ Orchestra "Amadeus" di Roma,
I Filarmonici di Torino
il Collegium Musicum Harmonia in Salerno,
Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (USA)
The Berliner Simfonietta
l’ Orchestra Filarmonica di Napoli
l’ Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali in Milano
Lexington Symphony Orchestra (USA)
Randers Chamber Orchestra (Denmark) ..........................and others
As an Opera conductor Eliano has performed in a multitude of theatres in Italy and abroad as Teatro Metastasio in Prato, Teatro Comunale di Vicenza, Teatro Comunale di Trieste, Teatro "La Pergola" in Firenze, Teatro "Argentina" in Roma, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Regio di Parma, Auckland Metropolitan Opera and Mercury Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand and other....
In 1992 and 1993, Eliano was the Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic co.-Director of the Georgian National Symphony Orchestra in Tbiliz (Georgia) and is, at present, the Director of The New Zealand International Academy of Music and Art Trust, the Music Director of the South Pacific Symphony in Auckland , New Zealand.
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Since 1995 Eliano collaborate with the New Zealand Opera Training School for the development of the young New Zealand singers.