Artistic Director
principal conductor
Mo Igor Coretti Kuret
Igor Coretti Kuret is an Italian Slovene violinist, pedagogue and orchestra director, internationally acknowledged for his great communication skills with young people. He is born and grew up in Trieste, a city with a very rich musical and cultural environment that characterized Central Europe in the last century, and an important commercial port, a hinge between the Mediterranean and continental Europe, which has always been a crossroads of peoples and a meeting point between the Latin, Slavic and German cultural worlds.
His name is linked to the ESYO orchestra, considered by many to be an example of musical excellence and an intercultural meeting between young people. For his services to the youth orchestra he created, he was awarded the Medal of Honor of the Central European Initiative and an award from the Municipality of Trieste.
All the projects he created promote meeting, friendship, dialogue, and collaboration between peoples. Some have also been recognized by the highest European institutions, such as the Culture Commission of the European Union and the Presidency of the European Parliament. With the “Gorizia” project conceived in 1994 he was the winner of the competition organized by the International Institute for Cultural Management of Salzburg in collaboration and with the patronage of the European Council and the Austrian Ministry of Culture. The “Drums of Peace” project, conceived together with the journalist and writer Paolo Rumiz, obtained the President of the Republic Medal.
Currently Maestro Coretti Kuret, in addition to exercising the artistic direction of the ESYO Project and being the artistic contact for the SGME, in the international field often holds the role of guest conductor of European orchestras, presides over juries of international competitions in Italy and abroad, teaches violin at the ICMA-UWC ADRIATIC in Duino near Trieste, holds masterclasses and workshops for young violinists and chamber music ensembles, and training seminars for violin and ensemble music teachers.