“Gianandrea Noseda will be staying in Washington,” reports Anne Midgette in Sunday’s (9/23) Washington Post. “One year into the conductor’s tenure as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, Gary Ginstling, the orchestra’s executive director, announced a four-year contract extension, through 2024-2025, from the stage of the Kennedy Center Concert Hall during the orchestra’s season-opening gala Saturday night. The orchestra also announced that it has raised $10 million earmarked for special initiatives for Noseda and the orchestra, including an in-house digital media initiative, meaning that the NSO will record its own performances for streaming and for physical CD and DVD—starting with a set of the complete Beethoven symphonies to be released in 2020, the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth. The announcement put to rest some anxieties that the popular Noseda might look elsewhere after the expiration of his initial contract at the end of the 2020-2021 season—concerns that were augmented with the announcement this summer that the conductor will take over as music director of the Zurich Opera in 2021-2022. (It is not unusual for major conductors to have at least two regular posts.)”
Posted September 24, 2018
Gianandrea Noseda photo by Scott Suchman / Kennedy Center
