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Daniele Gatti
Daniele Gatti has been Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 1996. He was Music Director of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome from 1992 to 1997, Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Opera House between 1994 and 1997 and Music Director of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna from 1997 to 2007. He has also been named ‘Accademico’ of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In 2005 the Italian critics awarded him the Abbiati Prize. He has recently been appointed Music Director of the Orchestre National de France, to begin in 2008 taking over the role from Kurt Masur.
Daniele Gatti has conducted some of the world’s finest orchestras and is a regular guest conductor with the Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, Dresden Staatskapelle, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony and Chicago Symphony orchestras. He has a close relationship with the Vienna State Opera and will conduct several new productions with them, including Verdi’s Macbeth in 2009-2010 season. His return to La Scala with Wagner’s Lohengrin in January 2007 and his performances of Berg’s Wozzeck last month, were met with an enthusiastic response from audiences and critics alike.
His future projects will include a new production of Parsifal for the opening of the Bayreuth Festival 2008, Verdi’s Don Carlo at La Scala (December 2008), and Verdi’s Aida at the Bayerische Staatsoper of Munich and the Metropolitan in New York (in June 2009 and September 2009 respectively). The 2007-2008 season started with Daniele Gatti conducting the opening of the ABO concert series in Vienna, followed by a performance of Verdi’s Requiem for the International Festival of Sacred Music at the Vatican, Rome, both with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. He returned to the podium of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in March 2008 and will return to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in March 2009, followed by further performances with Boston Symphony and New York Philharmonic orchestras in September 2009.
As Music Director, Daniele Gatti conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in many concerts as part of the Orchestra’s London season at the Royal Albert Hall, as well as every year at the BBC Proms. He also tours extensively throughout Europe and the USA with the RPO. Performances for the 2007-2008 season include conducting the Orchestra for their return to the Royal Festival Hall this spring, continuing with two further concerts of Brahms and Strauss. Daniele Gatti’s forthcoming touring plans with the RPO include concerts in Spain, Italy, Poland and Lithuania.
Daniele Gatti has made several recordings for the BMG/RCA Red Seal label including the music of Rossini, Mahler, Prokofiev, Bartók and Respighi. His critically acclaimed recording of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony with the RPO on the Harmonia Mundi label was the first in a complete series of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies. A recording of the Fourth Symphony and Capriccio Italien was released in late 2005 and Time Out Chicago’s review of this recording said: ‘Gatti gets a glowing sound out of his strings ... His brass section is second to none ... Gatti’s approach works so well.’ The Sixth Symphony and the Serenade for Strings have also been released on the same label.
