Born in Brescia, Pier Carlo Orizio graduated in piano under Sergio Marengoni. He then studied composition with Giancarlo Facchinetti, conducting with Donato Renzetti and attended master classes held by E. Tchakarov (Venice 1988) and Leonard Bernstein (Rome 1989).
Pier Carlo Orizio regularly conducts some major European orchestras such as Danish National Symphony, Camerata Salzburg, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Slovenska Filharmonija Ljubljana, Zagreb R.T.V. Symphony Orchestra, Cracow Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, “G. Enescu” Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Orchestre de Cannes, I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano and collaborates with world-renowned soloists such as Paul Badura-Skoda, Melvyn Tan, Boris Berezovsky, François-Joël Thiollier, Uto Ughi, Salvatore Accardo, Sir James Galway, Sergej Krylov, Marco Rizzi, Lilya Zilberstein, Fazil Say, Alexander Toradze, Wen-Sinn Yang, Andrea Lucchesini and the singers Cecilia Gasdia, Eteri Gvazava, Sara Mingardo.
Since 2001 he has regularly conducted Martha Argerich recording for RAI Beethoven’s First Concerto and Schumann’s A minor Concerto. With the famous piano duo Katia and Marielle Labèque he has recorded a programme of French music for RAI as well.
Pier Carlo Orizio holds the position of Artistic Director of the Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo and of the Beijing Piano Festival.