Gianandrea Noseda
Conductor
Gianandrea Noseda has been appointed Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester in September 2006 after four seasons as Principal Conductor. In 1997, he became the first foreign Principal Guest Conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Here 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 and between 1999 and 2003 he has been the Principal Guest Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Since September 2003 he is the Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Turin. In addition, he serves as Artistic Director of the Stresa Festival in Italy and he is the Principal Conductor designated of the Teatro Regio, Turin.

Gianandrea Noseda was born in Milan where he began his musical studies in piano, composition and conducting. Since making his professional conducting debut in 1994, 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 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. In Italy, in addition to his privileged relationship with Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, he appeared with the Maggio Musicale and Santa Cecilia Orchestras. Future engagements in the season 2006/07 include his debut with the Deutsche-Symphonie Orchester in Berlin and with the Israel Philharmonic.

He has conducted 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 will start a closer cooperation with the major US Opera House. The new production of Il trovatore will mark his debut at the Orange Festival in July 2007.

Gianandrea Noseda's collaboration with the BBC Philharmonic includes studio recordings, subscription concerts at the Bridgewater Hall, the annual appearance at the Proms in London and an intense touring activity : after the success of their first tour in Japan in November 2004, they have been re-invited in March 2008. They have also toured in Italy, Czeck Republic, Spain and Germany. In April 2007 Gianandrea Noseda will make his debut with the BBC Philharmonic at the Konzerthaus in Vienna.

Live performances of Beethoven's complete symphonies from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda have attracted 1.4 million download requests in a BBC trial which was offered as part of Radio 3's The Beethoven Experience.

Gianandrea Noseda is an exclusive artist of Chandos Records: he has recorded music of Respighi, Prokofiev (the first complete recording of The Stone Flower), Karlowitz, Dallapiccola, Dvorak and Shostakovich. The complete cycle of Liszt's Symphonic works will be completed by 2007. Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic he has also recorded for DG Anna Netrebko's first album.