Gianandrea Noseda
Since making his professional conducting debut in 1994, Gianandrea Noseda has appeared with orchestras such as the BBC Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic, Vienna Chamber Symphony, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Orchestre National de France and New York Philharmonic Orchestra. In Italy, he appears regularly with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In September 2002 he began his tenure as Principal Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester.

In 1997, at the invitation of Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda became the first foreign principal guest conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, where he helped establish the Mariinsky Young Philharmonic Orchestra and still serves as its principal conductor. Since 1999 he has been principal guest conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

Gianandrea Noseda was born in Milan where he began his musical studies in piano, composition and conducting. He studied conducting in Vienna and in Italy with Donato Renzetti, Myung-Whun Chung and Valery Gergiev won several international conducting competitions in 1994.

Mr. Noseda has conducted the Kirov Opera – both on tour and in St. Petersburg – in new productions of Rigoletto and Tosca (1997); Le nozze di Figaro, La Traviata, and La Sonnambula (1998); Don Carlo and Don Giovanni (1999); Lucia di Lammermoor and Les Contes d’Hoffmann (2000); La Bohème (2001) and Così fan tutte (2002). In the 2002-2003 season, he conducts Il Trittico in St. Petersburg. With the Kirov Ballet, he has conducted productions of Sleeping Beauty and Balanchine’s Jewels (1999).

Gianandrea Noseda made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2002 conducting Prokofiev’s War and Peace (a co-production with the Mariinsky Theatre), which he also conducted in 2000 for his Covent Garden debut in London and at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. In 2001 he made his debut at the Los Angeles Opera in The Queen of Spades, with Placido Domingo in the lead role. He returns to the Metropolitan Opera in 2006 for a production of La forza del destino.