Carlo ponti jr wiki

Italian orchestral conductor (born 1968)

Carlo Ponti Jr. (born 29 December 1968)^[1] is an Italian orchestral conductor working in the United States. He is the son of late film producer Carlo Ponti Sr.^[2] and Italian actress Sophia Loren, and the older brother of film director Edoardo Ponti.

Early life

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Ponti worked at the Conductor's Institute in Connecticut, under the direction of Harold Farberman from 1994–96, worked with Mehli Mehta, Zubin Mehta, and Andrey Boreyko in Los Angeles from 1997-99, and furthered his musical studies in Austria at the Vienna Musikhochschule from 1999 to 2001 under Leopold Hager and Erwin Acel.^[3]

Career

He has guest conducted internationally and was the recipient of various awards for fostering the growth of young musical talent through music education. Ponti has been associate conductor of the Russian National Orchestra from 2000 to 2018 and w