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Dr. Fiora Contino graduated from Oberlin College with a Bachelor of Music degree in piano. She furthered her musical training in Europe studying conducting at the Conservatoire Americain in Fontainebleau and the Ecole Normale in Paris with renowned pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, and at the Akademie Vienna with Hans Swarovsky. She then earned a Master's Degree, with distinction, and a Doctorate of Music in conducting from Indiana University School of Music.
Her extensive teaching career includes positions at Smith College, Bowling Green State University, Peabody Institute, Indiana University, and The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Contino has conducted opera performances for Aspen Musical Festival, Memphis Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Spring Opera Theater of the San Francisco Opera, Anchorage Opera, and the Teatro Grattacielo at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. Her performance of Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" with the Pittsburgh Symphony, was greeted by the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin as "...magnificent, moving and of the very first order. Fiora Contino towered over everything as the conductor and music director. She held everything together with a baton that was sharp and in clear control of a magnificently coordinated performance. Her presence would do honor to any opera house in the world."
Article about Fiora Contino in the New York Times
Fiora Contino on the cover of Wisdom, Will and Wit by Joan Catoni Conlon
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