Gianandrea Noseda Gianandrea Noseda is the new Music Director of Teatro Regio in Turin since September 2007 after a successful collaboration which started in 2004. In his first season has conducted Falstaff and a compelling new production of Salome directed by Robert Carsen. With the tour of Germany in May 2008 he has also begun an increasingly important international activity which will lead to a residence in Japan in Summer 2010. Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester after four years as Principal Conductor – a way to pride the total commitment and the significant achievements of this collaboration – Gianandrea Noseda started his international journey in 1997, when he became the first foreign Principal Guest Conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg where he also set up the ‘Mariinsky Young Philharmonic Orchestra’ and served as its Principal Conductor. Since 1998 he is the Principal Conductor of the Orquesta de Cadaqués, between 1999 and 2003 he has been the Principal Guest Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic and of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Turin between 2003 and 2006. In addition, since 2000 he serves as Artistic Director of the Stresa Festival (one of the historical Italian Music festivals). Gianandrea Noseda has appeared all over the world with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony and the Boston Symphony in US, the Toronto Symphony and the Montreal Symphony in Canada, the London Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in UK, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Goetheborg Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Scandinavia, the Tokyo Symphony and the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Japan, the Orchestre du Capitol de Toulouse and the Orchestre National in France, the DSO Berlin in Germany and the Israel Philharmonic. In Italy, in addition to his privileged relationship with Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, he appeared with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Filarmonica della Scala and Santa Cecilia Orchestras. Highlights of the season 2007/08 have been the debut with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Center, the gala concert with the Israel Philharmonic in the frame of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel, the return to the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. As an opera conductor, Gianandrea Noseda has led the Mariinsky Theatre – both on tour and in St. Petersburg – in new productions of opera and ballet: he has presented for the first time ever in St. Petersburg La sonnambula by Bellini (1998) Così fan tutte by Mozart (2002) and Il trittico by Puccini (2003). In 2002 he made his Metropolitan Opera debut, conducting Prokofiev’s War and Peace followed by La forza del destino in 2006 : with Un ballo in maschera in the 2007/08 season Gianandrea Noseda has continued a close cooperation with the major Opera House in US to continue with Il trovatore (2009), La traviata (2010), Lucia di Lammermoor (on tour in Japan in 2011) and Macbeth (2012). With a new production of Verdi’s Il trovatore he also made his debut at the Orange Festival in July 2007 broadcast live by the French National TV. Gianandrea Noseda’s intense collaboration with the BBC Philharmonic includes studio recordings, subscription concerts at the Bridgewater Hall, the annual appearance at the Proms in London and an extensive touring activity in Italy, Czech Republic, Spain, Austria, Germany and Japan: after the success of their first tour they returned in March 2008 with an extensive presence in Tokyo in addition to concerts in Korea. In September 2008 he had the privilege to conduct the “Penultimate night at the Proms” with Beethoven’s IX Symphony. Live performances of Beethoven’s complete symphonies from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda in 2005 have attracted 1.4 million download requests in a BBC trial which was offered as part of Radio 3’s The Beethoven Experience. Since 2002 Gianandrea Noseda is an exclusive artist of Chandos: his extensive discography includes recordings of Respighi, Prokofiev (the first complete recording of The Stone Flower), Karlowitz, Dallapiccola, Dvorak, Smetana, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff (the rarely recorded opera Francesca da Rimini and the Symphony nr. 1) and Mahler. The complete cycle of Liszt’s Symphonic works in 5 volumes, which will be completed by 2009, has already received the acclaim of the International press. Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic he has also recorded for DG Anna Netrebko’s first album. For his activity in Italy and abroad, Gianandrea Noseda has received the honour of “Cavaliere Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana”. 09.08