Daniele Gatti

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Daniele Gatti (born 6 November 1961, Milan) is an Italian conductor.

Biography

Gatti was principal conductor from 1992 with the Orchestra Dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 1997, he also became the music director of the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. He has also served as principal guest conductor of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. At the Vienna State Opera he conducted productions of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra and Otello, Schönberg's Moses und Aron and Mussorgski's Boris Godunov. In 2005, alongside Zubin Mehta and Christian Thielemann, Gatti was invited to conduct a concert in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the 1955 reopening and renovation of the Vienna State Opera. His debut at the Bayreuth Festival was in Stefan Herheim's production of Parsifal in 2008. In December 2008 he will open the 2008/2009 Season of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, with Verdi's Don Carlo.

In 1994, Gatti made his first guest conducting appearance with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO). He was immediately offered the position of the RPO's principal conductor, and he assumed the post in 1996.[1] Gatti is regarded as having restored the RPO's status on par to the other main London orchestras.[2] During his tenure, in 2004, the RPO acquired its first permanent residency at Cadogan Hall.[3] [4] In April 2007, Gatti was one of eight conductors of British orchestras to endorse the 10-year classical music outreach manifesto, "Building on Excellence: Orchestras for the 21st Century", to increase the presence of classical music in the UK, including giving free entry to all British schoolchildren to a classical music concert.[5] In 2009, Gatti is scheduled to be succeeded by Charles Dutoit as the RPO's principal conductor and to be appointed conductor laureate.[6]

In July 2007, the appointment of Gatti as the next music director of l'Orchestre National de France was announced.[7] He took over the post in September 2008.

Gatti is married to the cellist Silvia Chiesa.

References

  1. ^ Hilary Finch (September 2000). "The Transformer", BBC Music Magazine. 
  2. ^ Erica Jeal (1999-09-20). "Subtle but confident", The Guardian. Retrieved on 30 April 2007. 
  3. ^ Louise Jury (8 January 2002). "London Philharmonic gets a concert centre", The Independent. Retrieved on 9 October 2008. 
  4. ^ Anthony Holden (2004-05-09). "Vandals at the gates", The Observer. Retrieved on 30 April 2007. 
  5. ^ Charlotte Higgins (2007-04-26). "Orchestras urge free concerts for children", The Guardian. Retrieved on 6 May 2007. 
  6. ^ Martin Cullingford (2007-04-20). "Charles Dutoit takes over Royal Philharmonic Orchestra", Gramophone. Retrieved on 30 April 2007. 
  7. ^ Matthew Westphal (2007-07-23). "Daniele Gatti to Succeed Kurt Masur at Orchestre National de France", Playbill Arts. Retrieved on 24 July 2007. 

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Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Music Directors

Bernardino Molinari (1912) · Franco Ferrara (1944) · Fernando Previtali (1953) · Igor Markevitch (1973) · Thomas Schippers (1976) · Giuseppe Sinopoli (1983) · Uto Ughi (1987) · Daniele Gatti (1992) · Myung-Whun Chung (1997) · Antonio Pappano (2005)
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Principal Conductors

Thomas Beecham (1946) · Rudolf Kempe (1961) · Antal Doráti (1975) · Walter Weller (1980) · André Previn (1985) · Vladimir Ashkenazy (1987) · Yuri Temirkanov (1992) · Daniele Gatti (1996)
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Orchestre National de France Music Directors

Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht (1934) · Manuel Rosenthal (1944) · Roger Désormière (1947) · André Cluytens (1951) · Maurice Le Roux (1960) · Charles Münch (1962) · Jean Martinon (1968) · Sergiu Celibidache (1973) · Lorin Maazel (1987) · Charles Dutoit (1991) · Kurt Masur (2002) · Daniele Gatti (2008)