A regular guest conductor in Europe, Scandinavia and Russia, Damian Iorio has conducted the London Philharmonic, Danish National Radio Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic and the Iceland Symphony Orchestras, and has taken part in international festivals such as the Esterhazy Haydn Festival, Bratislava Festival, Musical Olympus Festival in St Petersburg and Tivoli Festival in Copenhagen.

Damian regularly conducts throughout Russia, where he was Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Murmansk from 1999 to 2005, with whom he has toured Russia and Scandinavia. Damian's work in Russia also includes Benjamin Britten The Turn of the Screw, with performances in St Petersburg and Novosibirsk, and the Russian premiere, in Moscow, of Michael Nyman's opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, which was nominated for Best Opera Production at the 2004 Golden Mask Festival.

Now based in Italy, Damian  has conducted successful new productions of Britten's Albert Herring with the Accademia della Scala, Milan, and Maggio Musicale, Florence, and Britten's Curlew River at the opera houses of Trento and Pisa. In June 2007  he made his opera debut at Glyndebourne Festival Opera with performances of Verdi Macbeth where he worked alongside Vladimir Jurowski.

Damian had a hugely successful 2007/08 season, conducting the Trondheim, Guangzhou, Netherlands Radio and BBC Symphony Orchestras. He also made his debut at Central City Opera, Denver with Britten The Rape of Lucretia, which received fantastic reviews in the international press.

Highlights of this season include making his debut at the Opera de Paris conducting Smetana The Bartered Bride and a production of Verdi Macbeth at the National Theatre Brno. He will also make his debut with the Ulster Orchestra as well as conducting the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano G. Verdi, Orchestra Sinfonica di San Marino and the Orchestre de Picardie.

Born in London in a family of Italian and English musicians, Damian studied conducting with Alexander Polishchuk and Ilya Musin in St Petersburg, after completing violin studies with Yossi Zivoni in the UK and Franco Gulli in the USA. In 2006 Damian was bestowed the title Knight of the Order of Sant'Agata, Republic of San Marino, in recognition of his services to music in that state.