Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Roma

The Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia was the first orchestra in Italy to devote itself exclusively to the symphonic repertoire, giving premieres of major masterpieces of the 1900, such as Respighi’s Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome, Henze’s Opfergang, Pärt’s Cecilia, vergine romana, Dubugnon’s Caprice Romain or Sciarrino’s Euridice secondo Rilke. Founded in 1908, the Orchestra has been conducted by some of the major musical figures of the 20 th century: from Mahler, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Strauss, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Hindemith, Toscanini, Furtwängler, De Sabata, Karajan and Abbado to the most impressive performers of our day including Gergiev, Thielemann, Dudamel while Bernardino Molinari, Franco Ferrara, Fernando Previtali, Igor Markevitch, Thomas Schippers, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Daniele Gatti, Myung-Whun Chung have been its Music Directors followed from 2005 to 2023 by Sir Antonio Pappano who was honoured as Director Emeritus. Leonard Bernstein was Honorary President from 1983 to 1990.

In October 2024, Daniel Harding became the next Music Director of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia for an initial five-year term.

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