Music Director Gianandrea Noseda returns for May National Symphony Orchestra Concerts

Three-Week Residency featuring Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Shostakovich’s Fourth, and
Mahler’s Sixth Symphony help to round out the 2024-2025 Classical Season

(WASHINGTON)—Music Director Gianandrea Noseda returns to the Kennedy Center Concert Hall stage this May to close out his eighth season with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) including three consecutive weeks of concerts. These performances come on the heels of Noseda’s successful tour with the NSO to Florida this past March, where they were hailed by the South Florida Review as an ensemble “that displayed a standard of performance that can rank with the best of American orchestras.”

The first of these three concerts features Alfred Schnittke’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with award-winning violinist and former New York Philharmonic artist-in-residence Lisa Batiashvili. With Gianandrea Noseda at the helm, Batiashvili’s London Symphony Orchestra performances of Schnittke are celebrated as “full of fire, imbued with the spirit of discovery…,” evoking “the sense that anything could happen” (Classical Explorer). Shostakovich’s triumphant Symphony No. 4 concludes the concert program, May 1–3, 2025.

The following week, Noseda conducts Gustav Mahler’s dark, fatalistic Symphony No. 6 from May 8–10, 2025, a work that has only been performed by the NSO on five concerts in the last 50 years. Noseda’s Mahler performances are celebrated as “devilishly good” (Bachtrack) and “leaving everyone drenched in the vivid immediacy of sound” (The Washington Post). 

Noseda’s concludes his portion of the 2024–2025 season with Beethoven’s late masterpiece Missa Solemnis featuring The Washington Chorus, critically acclaimed soprano Erika Grimaldi, and accomplished bass-baritone Marko Mimica from May 15–17, 2025. Mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb, “a tour de force of singing and acting,” (Bachtrack) and esteemed tenor Saimir Pirgu—winner of the prestigious “Pavarotti d’Oro”—also join the performance, making their NSO debuts.

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