He holds diplomas in Piano, Choral Music and Choir Direction, and a degree in Renaissance Polyphony.
He teaches Choral Exercises at the ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ Conservatory of Ravenna.
In 1993 he founded the Coro Costanzo Porta and in 2004 the Orchestra Cremona Antiqua, an ensemble on original instruments, under the direction of which he has given concerts in the most important Italian and European festivals.
He was assistant conductor to Sir John Eliot Gardiner and harpsichordist of the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists on numerous world tours.
He has been collaborating since 2018, as choirmaster, with Riccardo Muti, with whom he has performed Macbeth, Nabucco, Stabat Mater, Te Deum and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Orchestra Cherubini, Coro Costanzo Porta/Cremona Antiqua).
He was choirmaster of Opera Lombardia, Opéra de Lausanne and Chorus ‘Luigi Cherubini’.
He has held masterclasses in Baroque repertoire at the ‘Celletti’ Academy in Martina Franca, the Čajkovskij Conservatory in Moscow, the Opera School in Bologna, Musica Antica at Palazzo di Genova, Festival Monteverdi in Cremona and masterclasses in Choir Conducting at ASAC Veneto and Fondazione Guido d’Arezzo.
As a conductor, he has worked with Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Orchestra Luigi Cherubini, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, OIDI Festival Baroque Ensemble, Orchestra della Magna Grecia, Cremona Antiqua, Orchestra ‘1813’ of Teatro Sociale di Como, Baroque Opera Concert in Tokyo.
In 2021, he was Music Director at Il Cantiere in Montepulciano.
In the same year, he was appointed Principal Music Director of the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, of which his two ensembles, under the name Coro e Orchestra Cremona Antiqua, became the resident groups.
This led him to conduct, year after year, Monteverdi’s great masterpieces: the Orfeo in 2021, the Vespro della Beata Vergine in 2022, performed in Cremona, Mantua, Milan, Perugia and Pordenone, as well as, conducting the Liatoshynskyi Capella, in Kiev at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, in a project symbolising brotherhood and sharing between two peoples.
This year, Greco will conduct L’incoronazione di Poppea, directed by Pierluigi Pizzi, which will be staged at the theatres of Cremona, Como, Pavia, Pisa and Ravenna.