Music director of several renowned orchestras, Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda was born in Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, on April 23, 1964. He studied piano and composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, then conducting with Donato Renzetti, Chung Myung-Whun and Valery Gergiev, at the Chigiana Academy in Siena and in Vienna. In 1994, he won the Douai (France) and Cadaquès (Spain) competitions, where he was appointed principal conductor. Guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra two years later, Gianandrea Noseda became Artistic Director of the Stresa Festival in Milan, before taking up the post of Principal Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, where he worked from 2002 to 2011. He recorded Liszt's symphonic poems in five volumes, as well as works by Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Smetana. Meanwhile, in 2007, he accepted the musical direction of Turin's Teatro Regio, where his term ends in 2018. He also conducts other orchestras, including San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera and New York's Metropolitan Opera. In 2016, his career continued with the London Symphony Orchestra, where he became Principal Guest Conductor. With the LSO, he tackles several symphony cycles by Shostakovich, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, continued after his tenure. He also serves four seasons with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra between 2011 and 2020. In 2017, the Italian conductor took the reins of the Washington-based National Symphony Orchestra, where his initial four-season tenure was extended four times, until 2031. He also began conducting the Zurich Opera Orchestra, becoming its Generalmusikdirektor in 2021, until 2028.
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