Gianandrea Noseda

One of the world’s most sought-after conductors, Gianandrea Noseda became the seventh Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra at the start of the 2017 / 18 season, his contract extended in September 2018 through the end of the 2024 / 25 season. In addition to his subscription weeks with the Orchestra at its home at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in 2019 he led it in critically acclaimed concerts at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York. During the 2019 / 20 season he and the Orchestra undertook their first international tour to Japan and China and recorded the complete Beethoven Symphonies for release on the Orchestra’s new label. Noseda also serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and Artistic Director of the Stresa Festival. At the start of the 2021 / 22 season, he will become General Music Director of Opernhaus Zürich, where he will lead his first Ring cycle. From 2007 to 2018, he served as Music Director of Teatro Regio di Torino.

He has conducted orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre national de France, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Met Orchestra, and NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo, and at such leading opera houses and festivals as Teatro alla Scala, Milan, The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Salzburger Festspiele, and Opernhaus Zürich. He has amassed a discography of more than sixty recordings for Chandos and other labels. Dedicated to the next generations of musicians, he has worked with leading youth orchestras and is founding Music Director of the Tsinandali Festival and its Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra, which completed its first season in September 2019. A native of Milan, Gianandrea Noseda is Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. He was voted Conductor of the Year by Musical America in 2015 and named Conductor of the Year at the International Opera Awards in 2016.