A passionate young professional conductor with a present humanistic ethos in his artistic engagement. Bruno Campo combines his Latin-American spirit and entrepreneurship with his formation in the central European music tradition. A visionary and social innovator who has been decorated with the “Rafael Alvarez Ovalle” and “Peace ambassador” medals from the Guatemalan government for his contribution to the Art and Culture as founder of a rich network of youth orchestras during his youth.Co-founder of the Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra and diverse programs in Europe. Following the legacy of Nicolaus Harnoncourt, graduated at University of Performing Arts Graz, Austria and mastered conducting studies with David Zinmann, Daniele Gatti, and Peter Eötvos. Semifinalist in the “Svetlanov competition” Paris in front of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France whose musicians showed an exceptional support.

Highlights include conducting the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra in the opening ceremony of the “European Capital of Culture Aarhus 2017” for Her Majesty Margrethe II Queen of Denmark, his debut opening the season of the Odense Symphony Orchestra in August 2017, and a successful residency of the Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra in Athens, conducting the final concert of the Hellenic festival at the breath- taking “Odeon of Herodes Atticus Amphitheater”. Masterclasses include David Zinman with the Tonhalle- Orchestra Zurich, a mentoring of three consecutive years with Daniele Gatti in Accademia La Chigiana di Siena, Italy and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam Masterclass, and recently a masterclass on “Stockhausen Punkte” and Arnold Schönberg’s Kammer Symphonie with Peter Eötvös in Budapest.

He has conducted the Orkester Midtvest a good number of times since 2014 in the Danish festival Klassiske Dage in Holstebro with soloists like Katrine Gislinge, Henriete Bonde-Hansen, Janne Thomsen, Andreas Brantelid and Bengt Forsberg, assisted Laurance Foster in a tour conducting the Orkester Norden, the Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra at Teatro alla Scala di Milano in 2015, the European Campus Orchestra as part of the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO) at Grafenegg, the children Opera camp programs of the Vienna Phillharmonic and the Salzburg Festival, and other orchestras in the region.

At the age of 22, Bruno was entrusted by the founder of El Sistema Venezuela, Maestro José Antonio Abreu, to build up “El Sistema Guatemala”. In the course of 6 years, the program reached 2500 children and adolescents active in 10 youth orchestras and diverse ensembles in 8 new music schools, all founded under his leadership. Since 2012, he focused on looking for the roots of the Austrian and Central European music tradition in deep studies in University of Performing arts Graz, and parallel to the time, he initiated significant Sistema inspired orchestras, most importantly for Superar Vienna & Suisse, Music for Peace Istanbul and Harmonie Foundation Prague in addition to consulting other similar emerging programs. In 2013 Bruno co-founded the Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra, a Pan-European orchestra and symbol of a united and solidary Europe that gathers hundreds of young talented musicians from Sistema Europe’s diverse network of programs from over twenty European countries into an orchestra infused with the spirit and values of El Sistema. Past residencies took place in Vienna and Salzburg in 2013, Istanbul 2014, Milan 2015 during the "El Sistema residency" at Teatro alla Scala di Milano and Athens in 2017 at the closing concert of the Hellenic festival Greece and Birmingham and Birmingham & London 2018 at Southbank Centre.