Italian conductor Valentina Peleggi has a deep connection to Brazil. Principal conductor of Osesp Choir between 2017 and 2019 and conductor-in-residence for the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra during 2017 and 2018, Peleggi was awarded Conductor of the Year 2016 by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics, and voted Young Talent of 2017 by Revista Concerto magazine. She is currently guest music director of the Theatro São Pedro and music director of the Richmond Symphony, and was an ENO Mackerras Fellow at English National Opera from 2018 to 2020.
In 2015 she won the Taki Concordia Conducting Fellowship and in 2014 the conducting prize at the Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival, Brazil. Peleggi is an honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.