Francesco Cagnasso has been an assistant at the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Michael Sanderling since January 2024. Additionally, he holds the same position since the 2022/23 season at the German State Philharmonic of Rhineland-Palatinate, under its Chief Conductor Michael Francis. From 2021 to 2023, he was a scholarship holder at the Conducting Forum (German Conductors Forum), and in 2022, he was a finalist at the Critical Orchestra Berlin.

He has been invited to participate in the Malko Competition For Young Conductors 2024 in Copenhagen, where he will conduct the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.

The conductor, born in Italian-speaking Switzerland, successfully completed his Bachelor’s degree in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Music and Theatre Hamburg under Prof. Ulrich Windfuhr in 2021. Since then, he has been living in Zurich, where he has been studying in the renowned class of Prof. Johannes Schlaefli and Prof. Christoph Mathias Mueller in the Master Orchestral Conducting program at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2021.