Stefano Sacher - Conductor and composer, born in Trieste (1962) and graduated at the University of Trieste with a dissertation on Prokof'ev, he is also graduated in in choral music and choir conduction at the Conservatorio "G.Tartini" of Trieste, and in orchstral conduction at Conservatorio "G.B.Martini" of Bologna. His teachers in composition were Giampaolo Coral (in Trieste) and Antonio Bibalo (in Norway); beside this, he studied orchestral conduction with Donato Renzetti and Nicola Rescigno, and choral conduction with Samuil Vidas. Since 1985 he has conducted orchestral and choral performances in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, Belgium and Mongolia. He has composed choral and instrumental music, the chamber opera "Trobarclos" (on the libretto by Mauro Rossi), the ballet "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde, music for theatre. His composition have been performed in international contemporary music festivals, concerts and have been broadcasted by italian Radio. He has conducted the Academic Budapest orchestra, the ESTA orchestra, the Young AMG Orchestra, the Aurora Ensemble, and the Nova Sinfonietta. In 1988 he won "ex aequo" the national competition "Laboratorio lirico di Alessandria" for Korrepetitor / second conductor of the contemporary operas "Jakob Lenz" (by W.Rihm) and "The Martyrdom of St.Magnus" (by P.Maxwell Davies). He has taught in many workshops on contemporary music and realizes musical programmes for radio RAI.