Gianandrea Noseda was named the National Symphony Orchestra’s (NSO) seventh music director in January 2016. In September 2018, his contract was extended through the 2024–2025 season. His dynamic leadership has focused renewed attention on the NSO.



Mr. 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. He is also the music director of the new Tsinandali Festival and Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra in Tsinandali, Georgia, which launches in September 2019. He begins his tenure as the general music director of Opernhaus Zürich in the 2021–2022 season, the centerpiece of which will be a new Ring cycle.



Mr. Noseda has conducted orchestras that include the Berliner Philharmoniker, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Munich Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and Orchestre de Paris, as well as at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Salzburg Festival. From 2007 to 2018, Mr. Noseda served as music director of Teatro Regio Torino, raising the company’s international profile with acclaimed productions, tours, recordings, and film projects. He has also served as chief conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and as the first foreign principal guest conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre, as well as principal guest conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra created the Victor de Sabata Chair for him from 2010 to 2014.



Since 2002, Mr. Noseda has enjoyed a cherished relationship with the Metropolitan Opera and has led new productions that include Adriana Lecouvreur, which premiered at the New Year’s Gala on December 31, 2018. He conducted the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in May 2018 and returns to the Hall with the orchestra in May 2020.



Mr. Noseda’s discography includes more than 60 albums, from his project Musica Italiana—which chronicles under-appreciated 20th-century Italian repertoire—to opera albums that feature Diana Damrau and Anna Netrebko with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino.



Mr. Noseda’s honors include Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, Musical America’s 2015 Conductor of the Year, and Conductor of the Year at the 2016 International Opera Awards.