In the Eighties Marco Boni was among the founders, and solo cello, of the Chamber Orchestra I Virtuosi Italiani (concerts in Italy, Switzerland and Spain and at the Turku Festival in Finland 2001). With the same orchestra he released for Chandos the first world recording of Rota’s Piano concertos.

In 1987 he renewed a long-standing contact with Sergiu Celibidache, who had taught him the rudiments of orchestral conducting when Marco was only eleven. Marco Boni’s conducting career reached a significant turning point in 1994 when, after a successful tour of some major Italian towns, he became Principal Conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, a position that he still holds. In the same year he made his debut at the Teatro Comunale of Florence with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and a tour of Italy with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra culminated at the Rovereto Mozart Festival. A regular guest with some of the major European Orchestras, he toured Spain with the North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, making his debut with the Mahler repertoire.

With the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra he has toured France, Spain (9 tours), Italy (6 tours), Belgium, India, Japan (2 tours), Switzerland and more recently Portugal with the pianist Maria Joao Pires, obtaining everywhere unanimous acclaim from public and critics. In 2002 he was invited to conduct at the Floriade Happening in Amsterdam, sharing the evening with Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in a concert broadcast by Dutch television.

In 2005 he was nominated Musical Director of the Wiener Kammersymphonie, a recently founded chamber orchestra formed of members of the best Viennese and Austrian Orchestras, such as Camerata Salzburg, Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Symphoniker, whom he has conducted on March 2006 in Spain in occasion of the orchestra debut. On September 2006 during his tour in Italy and Switzwerl and with cellist Misha Maisky, Maestro Boni has celebrated the eighth of century (12 years and a half) of co-operation with Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra.

His first recording of Mahler’s arrangements of the quartets “Death and the Maiden” by Schubert and Op. 95 by Beethoven was rated by the BBC Music Magazine as “the best recording of this repertoire now available.”

Four recordings of works by Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Cajkovskij for the label PentaTone Classics have now been released in a Super-audio CD version. Each of these had flattering reviews in worldwide musical magazines.
In December 2005 Boni recorded a CD of Vivaldi and Bach for the label Victor with the Filarmonici of the Bologna Teatro Comunale.

After the big success of Marco Boni at the head of the Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma in the indian tour 2006, a double CD entirely dedicated to Giuseppe Verdi with the same Orchestra, the Chorus of Teatro Regio di Parma and the bass Michele Pertusi has been released.

2007 and 2008 have been characterized by intese activities, besides the performances connected to his position of Principal Conductor of Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, several events have been carried out both in Italy and abroad with great public success and favourable reviews.

In 2009 Spain with Concertgebouw Chamber and Misha Maisky, besides concerts in Holland and particularly in Amsterdam where the concert of 8th March at Concertgebouw has been broadcast by the Dutch Radio and registered by Japanese TV NHK with related DVD.
In Spain concerts in November with Wiener KammerOrchester.

In Italy the activities are intense since beginning of the year including Histoire du Soldat at Regio di Parma and, as a consequence of the evening dedicated to Puccini last year, an interesting project has been performed in March, i.e. conducting a worldwide première of a contemporary opera, the project will be organized also in Vienna at Kammeroper involving Wiener KammerOrchester too, following location will be Amsterdam.

On 27th September a concert is forecast at La Fenice in Venice.
More than one project is under completion in Switzerland.

In 2010, besides Concertgebouw Chamber activities in Holland, a tour in Spain shall take place with this Orchestra involving Madrid, Siviglia, Barcelona and Bilbao. Several concerts will take place in Italy with Italian orchestras and Wiener KammerOrchester, Marco Boni will be present in Denmark with a serie of concerts in January as well.