The Italian Youth Orchestra — based in Fiesole and composed of musicians under 27 — has just turned forty and now aims to grow with the collaboration of several renowned conductors, who will take the podium during the 2026–2028 period. The conductors include James Conlon, Fabio Luisi, Oksana Lyniv, Michele Mariotti, Antonio Pappano, and Corrado Rovaris. Three of these conductors are Italians who currently hold positions at major musical institutions: Luisi in Dallas, Copenhagen and Tokyo, Rovaris in Philadelphia, while Mariotti is well known in major theaters in Europe, America and Asia but is currently based in Rome as Music Director of the Teatro dell’Opera. In contrast, the three foreign conductors work or have worked at important Italian musical institutions: Conlon at the RAI National Orchestra, Lyniv at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and Pappano (who is also half Italian and has dual British and Italian citizenship) at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. These six most experienced and recognized conductors are joined by two young but extremely promising conductors. One is the talented Venezuelan Glass Marcano, the other is the Peruvian Dayner Tafur-Díaz, assistant to Kirill Petrenko at the Berlin Philharmonic and a Dudamel Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.