Gianandrea Noseda
Features, videos, recordings and concerts with our Principal Guest Conductor
Gianandrea Noseda has been one of our Principal Guest Conductors since the 2016/17 season, having made his debut appearance with the LSO in 2006.
His collaborations with the Orchestra have included performances of Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Barbican and Aix-en-Provence Festival, in-depth explorations of the music of Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, and a memorable, critically acclaimed interpretation of Britten’s War Requiem in 2011.
Noseda is also Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and General Music Director of the Zurich Opera House, and was Music Director of Italy’s Teatro Regio Torino between 2007 and 2018.
Videos
News & Stories
Gianandrea Noseda on the 2023/24 Season
‘What is crucially important when we perform is to be able to tell a story, to be narrators,’ says Gianandrea Noseda, LSO Principal Guest Conductor. He introduces his 2023/24 season, including music by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Carl Orff.
Concerts
Half Six Fix: Prokofiev 7
Elusive. Affecting. Disarming.
Wednesday 19 June 2024 • 6.30pm
Kick-start your evening with a 60-minute concert, featuring Prokofiev's wistful final symphony conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
Lost and Found – Beethoven, Beamish, Prokofiev
Elusive. Affecting. Disarming.
Thursday 20 June 2024 • 7pm
What is lost returns once more in emotive music conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, LSO Principal Guest Conductor.
Fortune Favours the Bold – Carmina Burana
Blazing. Hypnotic. Intoxicating.
Sunday 23 June 2024 • 7pm
Experience Carl Orff’s irresistible cantata and Shostakovich's Third Symphony, conducted by Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda, as he closes the LSO's 2023/24 season.
Fortune Favours the Bold – Carmina Burana
Blazing. Hypnotic. Intoxicating.
Tuesday 25 June 2024 • 7pm
Experience Carl Orff’s irresistible cantata and Shostakovich's Third Symphony, conducted by Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda, as he closes the LSO's 2023/24 season.
MacMillan and Shostakovich 12
Gianandrea Noseda and Nicola Benedetti
Thursday 3 April 2025 • 7pm
James MacMillian's dedicatee Nicola Benedetti performs his Violin Concerto No 2 and Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda conducts Shostakovich Symphony No 12.
Half Six Fix: Schubert and Prokofiev
Gianandrea Noseda
Wednesday 9 April 2025 • 6.30pm
Gianandrea Noseda introduces works by Franz Schubert and Sergei Prokofiev in this early-evening Half Six Fix concert, filled with edge-of-your-seat intensity.
Recordings
Reviews
‘Noseda proved a fine Brahmsian, too, superb in his judgment of the balance between formal logic and emotion.’ ★★★★ The Guardian, Dec 2023
‘Gianandrea Noseda is careful to cross every t without ever losing sight of atmosphere and long-term vision.’ ★★★★★ Classical Music, Jul 2023
‘This was a performance in a thousand, no doubt about it.’ ★★★★★ The Arts Desk, Feb 2022
