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Gianandrea Noseda

Gianandrea Noseda, chief and main conductor

Gianandrea Noseda is considered among the most sought-after conductors of our time serving as Music Director of the Teatro Regio Torino, Chief Guest Conductor of the Israel Philharmonic, Laureate Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester and Chief and Main Conductor of Cadaqués Orchestra. Since 2001 he has beenArtistic Director of the Stresa Festival, one of the legendary Italian music festivals.To stress the importance of his relationship with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he was appointed Victor De Sabata Guest Conductor. Noseda became the first foreign Principal Guest Conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1997.

Born in Milan, Noseda regularly conducts many of the leading orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra,Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic,Orchestre de Paris and the NHK Symphony Orchestra.In future seasons he will make his debut with another two great American orchestras, such as the Cleveland Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

As Music Director of the Teatro Regio Torino, Noseda has conducted many opera productions including Salome directed by Robert Carsen, Massenet’s Thaïs (available on Arthaus DVD), Verdi’s La traviata directed by Laurent Pelly and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov directed by Andrei Konchalovsky (Opus Arte DVD).

Noseda’s privileged relationship with the Metropolitan Opera began in 2002 with Prokofiev’s War and Peace and has continued to this day most recently with new productions of Il trovatore and La traviata.In June 2011 he conducted Lucia di Lammermoor on the Met’s Japan tour.

An exclusive Chandos artist since 2002, Noseda’s discography includes Bartok,Casella, Dvorak, Liszt, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Smetana,Mahler, Respighi, Wolf-Ferrari (Diapason d’or in France). He has also recorded for Deutsche Grammophon conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in Anna Netrebko’s debut album and most recently the Teatro Regio Torino Orchestra for a Mozart album featuring Ildebrando D’Arcangelo.

Gianandrea Noseda holdsthe honour of “Cavaliere Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana”.

Jaime Martín

Jaime Martín, chief conductor

After a distinguished career as a flute soloist Jaime Martín entered the world of orchestral conducting in 2007 and just one year later was presented by Sir Neville Marriner as an emerging conductor during a joint tour of Spain with the Cadaqués Orchestra. He has worked with many orchestras since then, including the Manchester Camerata, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Sinfónica de Galicia and Sinfónica de Castilla y León. In the forthcoming months he will make his conducting debut with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, London Mozart Players, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, as well as his operatic debut with the English National Opera conducting performances of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia.

He has recorded with the Cadaqués Orchestra, conducting Beethoven’s Third Symphony and the Sinfonietta by Ernesto Halffter, on the Tritó label, as well as two CDs of music by Agustí Charles and Isaac Albéniz with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya.

Born in Santander, Jaime Martín studied at the Music Academy in Madrid and later in The Hague. He has been flute soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and the English National Opera Orchestra, while maintaining a busy work schedule with the Cadaqués Orchestra. He is currently flute soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and a teacher at the Royal College of Music in London.

As a flute soloist he has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Tenerife, Galicia, Castilla y León and Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestras. With the Cadaqués Orchestra and Sir Neville Marriner he has recorded Mozart’s flute concertos for the Tritó label and also the Sinfonietta-Concerto by Xavier Montsalvatge with Gianandrea Noseda. He has also recorded the Bach concertos for flute, violin and piano with Murray Perahia and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (for Sony) and Mozart’s quartets for flute and strings (for EMI).

Jaime Martín has performed chamber music with artists such as Julian Bream, the Beaux Arts Trio, Pinchas Zukermann and Pierre Laurant Aimard. In addition, he has made several recordings with the Gaudier Ensemble.

He has been Chief Conductor of the Cadaqués Orchestra since October 2010.

Sir Neville Marriner

Sir Neville Marriner, principal guest conductor

Neville Marriner studied the violin at the Royal College of Music and then at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1949 he joined the Martin String Quartet and founded the Jacobean Ensemble with Thurston Dart, and also the Virtuoso String Trio. He played with most of the London orchestras and benefited from the experience of various legendary conductors – including Toscanini, Furtwangler, Cantelli and Karajan.

While playing as a principal in the London Symphony Orchestra, he founded the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, in 1959, and from the concertmaster's seat as the director of this ensemble he gravitated towards conducting. Pierre Monteux became his mentor, and his first conducting appointment was with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra from 1969 to 1979. He was then Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra until 1986, when he took up the same post with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Although the majority of his opera and symphonic performances and recordings take place with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, one of the most comprehensively recorded chamber orchestras in the world, he works regularly with major orchestras throughout the world.

Sir Neville Marriner has twice been honoured for his services to music. In 1979 he was given a CBE and he received a Knighthood in 1985.

The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Sir Neville have recently received the Queen's Award for Export Achievement in recognition of their remarkable success in the field of international concert performance and recording.

Sir Neville Marriner has been the Principal Guest Conductor of the Cadaqués Orquestra since 1992.