Gianandrea Noseda is the Musical Director of the Teatro Regio in Turin, Principal Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester, Principal Conductor of the Orquestra de Cadaqués and Artistic Director of the Stresa Festival – one of Italy’s oldest musical forums. In 1997 Noseda was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre (the first non-Russian to be given the post). He has also been Principal Guest Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI. Noseda recently became a guest conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with which Victor de Sabata used to work.
Gianandrea Noseda was born in Milan. He has performed in countries throughout the world with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestras of Pittsburgh, Chicago, Boston and London, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Deutsches Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Following his successful debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in December 2010 Noseda was appointed its permanent Guest Conductor. In February 2011 he succeeded Riccardo Muti at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the most important orchestras in the USA.
At the Teatro Regio in Turin Gianandrea Noseda has conducted numerous operas including Strauss’ Salome (directed by Robert Carsen), Massenet’s Thaïs (DVD version released by Arthaus), Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades and Verdi’s La traviata staged by Laurent Pelly, Andrei Konchalovsky’s production of Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov (the recording will be released on DVD and broadcast to cinemas throughout the world). In the summer of 2010 Noseda organised the Teatro Regio’s first ever tour to Japan and China, and May 2011 saw the theatre tour to Spain and to the Théâtre des Champs Élysées in Paris.
The maestro’s successful collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera, which began in 2002 with a performance of Prokofiev’s opera War and Peace, has continued with a series of productions of operas including La forza del destino (2006), Un ballo in maschera (2007), Il trovatore (2009) and La traviata (2010). June 2011 saw a performance of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor during a tour to Japan.
Gianandrea Noseda works with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; he takes part in studio recordings with the ensemble, charity concerts at the Bridgewater Hall (Manchester), performs with the musicians each year at the BBC Proms and tours frequently. In 2005 at the Bridgewater Hall he conducted a series of Beethoven symphonies. There have been 1.4 million requests to download these recordings from the internet as part of the online programme The Beethoven Experience on BBC Radio 3.
Since 2002 Gianandrea Noseda has been an exclusive recording artist for Chandos. His discography includes works by Prokofiev, Karlovič, Dvořák, Smetana, Shostakovich, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Mahler and Bartók as well as works by 20th century Italian composers including Respighi, Dallapiccola, Wolf-Ferrari (this recording received France’s Diapason d’or prize) and Casella. For Deutsche Grammophon he recorded an album with the Wiener Philharmoniker and Anna Netrebko and a disc of music by Mozart together with the orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo.
Gianandrea Noseda enjoys performing with youth orchestras including the Orchestra of the Royal College of Music in London, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana. In 2010 he undertook a tour with the European Union Youth Orchestra.
Gianandrea Noseda is a recipient of the order “For Services to the Italian Republic”.
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