Daniele Gatti
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Daniele Gatti (b. 6 November 1961, Milan) is an Italian conductor. He 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.
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[edit] Biography
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 elevated the RPO's status on par to other world-class orchestras.[2] He has also acquired the Orchestra's first permanent hall residency for smaller-scale works at Cadogan Hall in 2004.[3] 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.[4] In 2009, Gatti is scheduled to be succeeded by Charles Dutoit as the RPO's principal conductor and to be appointed conductor laureate.[5]
Gatti 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.
Gatti regularly conducts Vienna Philharmonic, in Vienna as well as at the Salzburg Festival and on tour.
In July 2007, it was announced that Gatti would become music director of l'Orchestre National de France in September 2008, succeeding Kurt Masur.[6]
In 2008 Gatti will make his debut at the Bayreuth Festival with Wagner's Parsifal.
Gatti is married to the cellist Silvia Chiesa.
[edit] References
- ^ Hilary Finch. "The Transformer", BBC Music Magazine, September 2000.
- ^ Erica Jeal. "Subtle but confident", The Guardian, 20 Sep 1999. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
- ^ Anthony Holden. "Vandals at the gates", The Observer, 9 May 2004. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
- ^ Charlotte Higgins. "Orchestras urge free concerts for children", The Guardian, 26 April 2007. Retrieved on 2007-05-06.
- ^ Martin Cullingford. "Charles Dutoit takes over Royal Philharmonic Orchestra", Gramophone, 20 Apr 2007. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
- ^ Matthew Westphal. "Daniele Gatti to Succeed Kurt Masur at Orchestre National de France", Playbill Arts, 23 July 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-24.
[edit] External links
- Daniele Gatti at Allmusic
- Daniele Gatti biography at Harmonia Mundi
- Erica Jeal, "Poise and subtlety". The Guardian, 20 April 2000.
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