Pier Giorgio Morandi played for ten years as principal oboist in Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He studied composition at Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan, and as conductor at Salzburg Mozarteum with Maestro Ferdinand Leitner. During these years working at La Scala, Morandi was assistant conductor of  M°Riccardo Muti and later of M° Giuseppe Patanè, from whom he gained a lot of experience in refining the stylistic Italian repertoire and learning all the secrets of the Italian opera "Tradition ".

In 1987 he studied in USA (Tanglewood) with Maestro Leonard Bernstein and Maestro Ozawa Seiji. In the same year, Morandi  won the "Tanglewood Competition", known as "BERNSTEIN PRIZE". In 1989 he  became  Principal Conductor at Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, where he conducted Ernani, Madama Butterfly  and several symphonic concerts. In 1990 he recorded his first opera with Roma Opera House: Don Chisciotte by Paisiello. From 1991 and for the following five years, he was Principal Guest Conductor at Budapest National Opera House.

Morandi  has a wide Italian opera repertoire and he has been working as regular guest conductor since 1990 in all the major opera houses in Italy, Europe and worldwide: Palermo, Trieste, Roma, Marseille, La Maestranza in Seville, Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo, Osaka, National Opera Theatre in Seoul, Colon in Buenos Aires, Stockholm Royal Opera House, Theatre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatsoper in Frankfurt,  Staatsoper in Vienna, Macerata Opera Festival, Arena di Verona, Zurich Opera House,  Goteborg, Teatro Regio di Parma, Napoli, Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Bilbao, Maiorca, Las Palmas, Valencia, Copenhagen Royal Opera House, Seattle Opera,  Albert Hall in London.

He conducted a G.Verdi Gala with Jose Cura and the London Symphony Orchestra, recorded on DVD, and he was in tour throughout Europe with tenor Vittorio Grigolo, with two recordings for Sony Classic.

Morandi also conducted several symphonic concerts with Budapest Radio Orchestra, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest State Orchestra, Flamish Radio Orchestra,  Roma’s Santa Cecilia Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra del Filarmonico di Verona, Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, Reggio Calabria Symphony Orchestra, Fukuoka Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra.

Morandi is at present Principal Guest Conductor at Stockholm Royal Opera House, where he recently conducted Fanciulla del West.

His future plans include: Tosca and Un ballo in Maschera in Stockholm, Aida in Oslo, Maria Stuarda in Frankfurt, Elisir d’amore, La bohème and Don Carlo in Dresden.