Conductor Laurent Campellone enjoys a prominent international guest conducting career with upcoming engagements including Carmen and Turandot at Deutsche Oper Berlin, multiple symphonic concerts in France, Carmen at the Arizona Opera, and Manon, Hamlet and La Boheme at the Opera House of Saint-Etienne in France, where he has served as Artistic Director for both Symphony Orchestra and Opera since 2003. Starting in the 2009-2010 season, Mo. Campellone will add to his post the position of principal Guest Conductor of the National Opera of Bulgaria.

Most recent appearances include conducting Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Lucia di Lamermoor and Cimarosa’s Cleopatra in Spoleto, Italy; Berlioz’s L’Enfance du Christ in Marseille; Don Pasquale at the Festival Lac du Bourget; Chabrier’s L’Etoile, Offenbach’s La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein, Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias and La Voix Humaine at Opéra Toulon; Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann and L'Etoile at Angers Nantes Opera; Rossini’s La Cenerentola for Opera di Colombia; Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the National Opera of Bordeaux; Massenet’s Werther at the Messina Opera House; Bizet’s Les Pécheurs de Perles at the Madison Opera House; Offenbach’s La Perichole at L’Opera de Marseille; Gounod’s Le Reine de Saba, Massenet’s Sapho, Lalo’s Le Roi d'Ys, Ponchielli’s La Gioconda, Massenet’s Ariane, Puccini’s Tosca, Bizet’s Carmen, Donizetti’s L’Elisir d'Amore, Puccini’s Turandot and Gounod’s Faust in Saint-Etienne.

Mo. Campellone was chosen by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a representative artist of France, promoting the repertory of Ravel, Berlioz, Franck, Fauré, Saint-Saens, and Debussy in performances throughout the world. In France, his adaptations of Gounod’s Polyeucte and Massenet's Ariane earned international attention.

In concert, Mo. Campellone has conducted the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Nancy, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orquesta Sinfonica Brasileira, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, as well as the symphonies at Festival de la Chaise-Dieu and Festival Berlioz, among others.

At the age of 23, Mo. Campellone became Musical Director assistant of the Opéra Toulon for five seasons, conducting grand lyric repertory as well as operetta and ballet in France and abroad in Philadelphia, Bilbao, Naples, and Montreal. During this time, he conducted more than thirty works, including Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Die Walküre, Lucia di Lammermoor and La Traviata. He later studied with Christoph Eschenbach, musical director of the Orchestre de Paris, the Hamburger Symphoniker, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and soon added to his repertory the symphonies of Beethoven, Mahler, Shostakovich, Messiaen, Berlioz, and others.

In October of 2001, at 29 years old, he was chosen unanimously as the first prize winner of the Eighth International Competition for young conductors of the European community, which took place in Spoleto, Italy, in association with the Academy of Saint-Cecile in Rome. This international prize was presented to him by the President of the jury, Maestro Bruno Bartoletti.

Mo. Campellone holds a degree in conducting from the Frederic Chopin Conservatory of Paris, as well as a degree in philosophy. He continues his studies in violin, tuba, percussion, and voice.