Juan Matteucci - Performer

Juan Matteucci (1920–1990) was a Chilean and New Zealand conductor and cellist. He was born on 9 February 1920 in Faenza, Italy, in the dressing room of the opera house where his father, the cellist Amilcare Matteucci, was playing. The family emigrated to South America, where the young Juan appeared as a cello soloist with the Lima Symphony Orchestra at the age of ten. In Chile he earned a degree in philosophy, biology and mathematics and spent four years at medical school before devoting himself to music; at twenty he succeeded his father as principal cellist of the Chilean Symphony Orchestra, and he also taught history of art at university (1942–1948). A Chilean government scholarship took him to the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. In 1955 he was among the founders of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Chile, of which he was assistant conductor and then conductor. In 1964 he moved to New Zealand as resident conductor of the NZBC Symphony Orchestra (1964–1969), and then led the Symphonia of Auckland from 1969 to 1980. He also conducted the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, was musical director of Auckland's Mercury Opera, and guest-conducted in the United States, Australia, Canada, China and the USSR. In 1976 he founded the first non-university tertiary conducting course in the Southern Hemisphere. He was appointed OBE in 1975, was a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, and served as Chile's honorary consul in New Zealand. He died in Auckland on 13 October 1990. Source: Rondo DB


Usual Name	Juan Matteucci
On Wikipedia	Juan_Matteucci
Ensembles	New Zealand Symphony Orchestra from 1964 to 1968
Links	Victoria University of Wellington , Wikipedia

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