Gianandrea Noseda

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Victor de Sabata Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda is the Music Director of Teatro Regio in Turin since September 2007, 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 – the Principal Conductor of the Orquesta de Cadaqu�s since 1998 and since 2000 he serves as Artistic Director of the Stresa Festival (one of the historical Italian Music festivals). Gianandrea Noseda became the first foreign Principal Guest Conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1997 where he also set up the ‘Mariinsky Young Philharmonic Orchestra’ and served as its Principal Conductor; 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.

Born in Milan, where he has accomplished his music studies, Gianandrea Noseda started his international journey in 1995 and since has appeared all over the world with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Chicago 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 and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Germany. In 2007 made his debut with the Israel Philharmonic and since he is returning every season: he has also been invited to conduct one of the concerts celebrating the 60^th anniversary of the foundation of the State of Israel. 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.

As Music Director of the Teatro Regio Turin Gianandrea Noseda has conducted several opera productions such as Falstaff, a compelling new production of Salome directed by Robert Carsen followed by three exciting new productions of Massenet’s Tha�s (the DVD has been recently released by Arthaus), Chaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades and Verdi’s La traviata directed by Laurent Pelly, which has opened the season 2009/10 of the Teatro Regio. With the tour of Germany in May 2008 he has also begun an increasingly important international activity which has lead to a residence in Japan and China (in the frame of the official programmes of the Shanghai’s Expo) in July – August 2010 which has been an outstanding success. In May 2011 Gianandrea Noseda and the Teatro Regio will begin a three years collaboration with the Th��tre des Champs Elys�es in Paris which will continue in 2012 and 2013.

As an opera conductor, Gianandrea Noseda 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) Cos� fan tutte by Mozart (2002) and Il trittico by Puccini (2003). Since then he returns every summer for the “Stars of White Nights Festival”. 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 and with the new production of Il trovatore (in the 2008/09 season) Gianandrea Noseda has continued a close cooperation with the major Opera House in US. Future projects include 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 at the presence of the French President Nicholas Sarkozy.

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. In the following years, complete cycle of the symphonies by Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Brahms have been made available on download to the worldwide audience by the record company Chandos Records.

Since 2002 Gianandrea Noseda is an exclusive artist of Chandos: his extensive discography includes recordings of Prokofiev (the first complete recording of The Stone Flower), Karlowitz, Dvorak, Smetana, Shostakovich, Mahler (Symphony nr. 10 in the Cook’s version) and Bartok (The Pianoconcerti with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet). An extensive survey of the music of the Italian composers of the XX century has included recordings of the rarely heard works by composers as Respighi, Dallapiccola, Wolf-Ferrari (Diapason d’or in France) and Casella (premi�re recording of the Symphony nr. 2). The complete cycle of Liszt’s Symphonic works in 5 volumes has already received the acclaim of the International press. In cooperation with the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic have recorded the rarely recorded operas Francesca da Rimini, The Miserly Knight and Aleko as well as the Symphonies nr. 1 and 2. Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic he has also recorded for DG Anna Netrebko’s first album.

Gianandrea Noseda is very sensitive to the help of the young generation of musicians through the collaboration with youth orchestras worldwide: he has conducted the Orchestra of the Royal College of Music in London, the National Youth Orchestra of United Kingdom, the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana of Fiesole and in Summer 2010 has realized a successful tour with the European Union Youth Orchestra including concerts in Poland, The Netherlands (Concertgebouw in Amsterdam), Germany (Konzerthaus in Berlin) and Italy. He has offered Conducting Masterclasses to young conductors at the Royal Northern College of Music as well as in the frame of his activities at the Stresa Festival.

During the season 2009/10 Gianandrea Noseda made successful debuts with Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (conducting the “Chicago premi�re” of Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony) and with the London Philharmonic at the Royal Festival Hall. During the season 2010/11 will conduct for the first time the Philadelphia Orchestra (in November 2010), the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington (in February 2011) and the Orchestre de Paris (June 2011).

For his activity in Italy and abroad, Gianandrea Noseda has received the honour of “Cavaliere Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana”.

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