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Antonello Manacorda

Conductor and violinist Antonello Manacorda first appeared on the conducting scene in a 2000 production of La clemenza di Tito. At the time, he had virtually no conducting experience, but influential figures accurately spotted his talent, and he has emerged as a versatile and innovative figure. Manacorda was born in 1970 in Turin, Italy. His father was an accountant, but both his parents were amateur music enthusiasts, and when Manacorda, as a child, expressed a desire to become a conductor, they encouraged his instincts. In school at the Turin Conservatory, however, Manacorda studied violin. He graduated with honors and won a scholarship from the DeSono Vereinigung für Musik, enabling him to pursue further violin studies in Amsterdam with Herman Krebbers, Eduard Schmieder, and Franco Gulli. Claudio Abbado named him concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in 1994, and when a group of musicians from the orchestra joined with Abbado to form the Mahler Chamber Orchestra three years later, he was a natural choice for concertmaster. Manacorda's turn toward conducting occurred in 2000 when "I was asked out of the blue," he recalled, to conduct Mozart's La clemenza di Tito for an Italian touring company. At first, he declined, but he brought up the offer with Simon Rattle, who was conducting a Mahler Chamber Orchestra performance and was surprised to find that Rattle had already pegged him as the kind of concertmaster who could conduct. The Mozart production won critical acclaim, and at Rattle's recommendation, Manacorda went on to study for four years with conductor Jorma Panula. In 2003, Manacorda became artistic director of chamber music at the Académie Européenne de Musique at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, and high-level conducting engagements soon followed in both orchestral and operatic realms. In 2006, he led a production of Giovanni Paisiello's The Barber of Seville at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan, and he became artistic director of the Neues Kammerorchester in Bamberg. In 2010, Manacorda assumed the conductorship of the Kammerakademie Potsdam, where he introduced elements of historical performance practice and recorded a noted cycle of Schubert symphonies for Sony Classical. The following year, he also became conductor of Het Gelders Orkest in the Netherlands, a more conventional symphonic ensemble. In 2017, Manacorda and the Kammerakademie Potsdam released a recording of Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 ("Scottish") and Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 107 ("Reformation"). That became part of a complete cycle of Mendelssohn symphonies, released on the Sony Classical label. Manacorda led Het Gelders Orkest in a 2018 recording of Debussy's La mer and Ravel's Ma mère l'oye for Challenge Classics, but he returned to Sony Classical with the Kammerakademie Potsdam, leading acclaimed recordings of Mozart's last three symphonies, and, in 2022, Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, and 7.
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