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Gianandrea Noseda has been General Music Director of the Zurich Opera House since the 2021/22 season. In addition, he is Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, he became Music Director of the newly founded Tsinandali Festival and the Georgian Pan-Caucasian Youth Orchestra. From 2007 to 2018, Noseda served as General Music Director of the Teatro Regio di Torino, where he artistically reshaped the opera house during his tenure. Noseda has conducted the world’s leading orchestras (Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic) as well as at the most prestigious opera houses (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House) and festivals (BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Salzburg, and Verbier). He has also held leading positions with the BBC Philharmonic (Chief Conductor), the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (Principal Guest Conductor), the Mariinsky Theatre (Principal Guest Conductor), and the Stresa Festival (Artistic Director). His discography comprises more than 80 CDs, with a special focus on the "Musica Italiana" project, which features neglected 20th-century Italian repertoire. Born in Milan, Noseda is a Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana and received the Order of Merit of the City of Milan in 2024. In 2015, he was named "Musical America’s Conductor of the Year," was awarded "Conductor of the Year" at the 2016 International Opera Awards, and received the Puccini Prize in 2023. In the same year, the Oper! Awards honored Noseda as "Best Conductor," particularly recognizing his interpretations of the first two "Ring" operas at the Zurich Opera House.

Ann-Katrin Stöcker studied piano, vocal coaching, and conducting in Frankfurt, as well as accompaniment, song interpretation, and chamber music at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She is a multiple national prizewinner of the “Jugend musiziert” competition, was a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association, and received support from Yehudi Menuhin’s “Live Music Now” foundation. In addition to an active concert career as a soloist and chamber musician, she was engaged as a répétiteur at Theater Augsburg, the Staatstheater Braunschweig, and Oper Frankfurt while still a student. From 2012 to 2014, she worked at the Staatstheater Braunschweig as a répétiteur with conducting duties and as assistant to the General Music Director; in 2013, she made her conducting debut there with Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Since 2014, she has been a répétiteur and deputy head of musical studies at Zurich Opera House, where she has conducted productions such as “Gold!”, “Konrad or the Child out of the Tin Can,” “Coraline,” “Odyssey,” “Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine Driver,” and “The Land of Smiles.” In 2020, she served as Assistant Conductor at the Bayreuth Festival, and in 2022, she conducted “Così fan tutte” at the Jerusalem Lyric Opera Festival. She collaborates regularly with Simone Young on projects with the Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne and the Orchestre de Paris and remains active as a pianist and chamber music partner.