Gianandrea Noseda is one of the world’s most sought-after conductors, equally recognized for his artistry in both the concert hall and opera house. He was named the National Symphony Orchestra’s seventh music director in January 2016 and began his four-year term with the 2017– 2018 season. In September 2018, his contract was extended for four more years, through the 2024–2025 season.
Noseda and the NSO’s partnership continues to flourish in many ways, including the appointment of 16 musicians to the NSO roster since the start of Noseda’s tenure. The momentum they have created together has resulted in widespread critical acclaim, including rave reviews at both of their first concerts together at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York in 2019. Noseda has also inspired the creation of a new, self-produced record label that releases its first album in February 2020, led the NSO on their first overseas tour together to Japan and China in March, conducted regular concert livestreams on both medici.tv and the NSO’s social media platforms, and, later this year, live recordings of the NSO’s performances of Beethoven’s nine symphonies to honor the Beethoven at 250 year.
In addition to his position with the NSO, Noseda also serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Orquestra de Cadaqués, and Artistic Director of the Stresa Festival in Italy. In July 2018, the Zurich Opera House appointed him the next General Music Director beginning in the 2021–2022 season where the centerpiece of his tenure will be a new Ring Cycle directed by Andreas Homoki, the opera house’s artistic director.
Nurturing the next generation of artists is important to Noseda, as evidenced by his ongoing work in masterclasses and tours with youth orchestras, including the European Union Youth Orchestra, and with his recent appointment as music director of the newly-created Tsinandali Festival and Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra in the village of Tsinandali, Georgia, which began in 2019.
Noseda has conducted the most important orchestras and at leading opera houses and festivals including the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, La Scala, Munich Philharmonic, Met Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Opera House, Salzburg Festival, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, and Zurich Opera House.
During the 2019–2020 season Noseda will guest conduct the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Philharmonia Zurich, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Tonhalle Orchestra, and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.
From 2007 until 2018, Noseda served as Music Director of Italy’s Teatro Regio Torino where he ushered in a transformative era for the company matched with international acclaim for its productions, tours, recordings, and film projects. Other institutions where he has had significant roles include the BBC Philharmonic which he led from 2002–2011; the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, where the Victor de Sabata Chair was created for him as principal guest conductor from 2010–2014; and the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, which appointed him its first-ever foreign principal guest conductor in 1997, a position he held for a decade. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic from 1999 to 2003 and Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI from 2003 to 2006.
Gianandrea Noseda also has a cherished relationship with the Metropolitan Opera dating back to 2002. In recent years, he has led critically acclaimed performances of new productions premiered at the New Year’s Eve Gala, most recently Adriana Lecouvreur featuring Anna Netrebko in 2018, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette in 2016, and Les pêcheurs de perles in 2015. His widely praised interpretation of Prince Igor from the 2013–2014 season is available on DVD from Deutsche Grammophon.
Noseda’s intense recording activity counts more than 60 CDs, many of which have been celebrated by critics and received awards. He has made numerous recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra and is in the midst of a multi-year project to record the complete Shostakovich Symphonies with the LSO for LSO Live. His Musica Italiana project, which he initiated more than ten years ago, has chronicled under-appreciated Italian repertoire of the 20th century and brought to light many masterpieces. Conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino, he has also recorded opera albums with celebrated vocalists such as Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Rolando Villazón, Anna Netrebko, and Diana Damrau.
A native of Milan, Noseda is Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, marking his contribution to the artistic life of Italy. In 2015, he was honored as Musical America’s Conductor of the Year, and was named the 2016 International Opera Awards Conductor of the Year. In December 2016 he was privileged to conduct the Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm.
