Mario Venzago, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Swiss pianist and conductor
Date of Birth: 01-Jul-1948
Place of Birth: Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland
Profession: conductor, pianist
Nationality: Switzerland
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Mario Venzago
- Mario Venzago (born 1948) is a Swiss conductor.
- His piano studies began at age five.
- He studied at the conservatory and the university in Zurich.
- He later studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. His other positions have included music directorships with Stadtorchester Winterthur (1978–1986), the Heidelberg Opera (1986–1989), the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Frankfurt/Bremen (1989–1992), Graz Opera (1990–1995), Sinfonieorchester Basel (1997–2003), and the Basque National Orchestra (Orquesta de Euskadi; 1998–2001).
- From 2004 to 2007, he was Principal Conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.
- He became chief conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra with the 2010-2011 season.Venzago made his American debut in 1988 at the Hollywood Bowl while he was a conducting fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute studying with Leonard Bernstein.
- He became Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in 2002.
- His initial contract in Indianapolis was for four years.
- He renewed his contract in 2005, for one year, and with an "evergreen" agreement for automatic annual renewal, depending on mutual consent.
- On July 30, 2009, Simon Crookall, the CEO of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, announced that Venzago's contract would not be renewed and that all advertised appearances with the orchestra in 2009-10 had been cancelled as a result of non-renewal.
- Other work in the USA has included the artistic directorship from 2000-2003 of the Summer Music Fest of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Venzago and his wife Marianne have two sons, Mario and Gabriel.
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