Conductor Luigi Gaggero

Luigi Gaggero has been performing as cimbalom and
percussion player and as a conductor at important concert halls
and festivals all over Europe, USA, and China. With an endless
passion for Medieval painting; Dante and Cavalcanti; the cinema
of Tarkovsky and Tarr; Bach, Mozart and Kurtág; Heidegger and
Nietzsche -  Luigi is very sensitive to artists who express
the Transcendental in art and therefore prioritizes, as an
interpreter, a phenomenological approach to both classical and
contemporary music. His interpretations are based on the empathic
encounter between  interpreter, composer and audience. This
results in moving, colorful interpretations, where the classical
repertoire gets colored with the typical freedom of
interpretation of contemporary music, which, in turn, despite its
complexity, abandons itself to the sweep of ‘classical’
phrasing.

This is also the spirit in which Luigi conducts the Ukho Ensemble
Kyiv (which he co-founded as artistic and musical director in
2015), and leads the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra (of which he is
chief conductor since 2018). Luigi is also guest conductor of
several European Orchestras and Ensembles and, at the head of his
Ukho Ensemble, has recently conducted three sold-out opera
productions at the National Opera of Ukraine.

In 2012 he founded the vocal ensemble La Dolce Maniera with whom
he recorded 2 discs dedicated to Monteverdi and Gesualdo.
Vittorio Ghielmi wrote: “these fresh interpretations, far away
from any ‘museality’, remind closely of Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro
and the Baroque sculpture, letting this music powerfully come to
life again before our eyes”.

As a conductor, Luigi Gaggero has recorded monographic CDs
devoted to Gervasoni (Winter & Winter), Hosokawa and Andreyev
(Kairos), Solbiati (EMA Vinci Records), Monteverdi and Gesualdo
(Stradivarius). As a cimbalom player he recorded works by Kurtág,
Eötvös, Fedele, Francesconi, Gervasoni, Hosokawa, Kurtág, Lévinas
and Solbiati (Audite, Aeon, Neos), as well as the  Háry
János Suite by Kodály on blu-ray with the Berliner Philharmoniker
conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

Luigi Gaggero is professor of cimbalom at the Conservatoire and
at the Académie supérieure de musique in Strasbourg, where he
also founded the Contemporary music ensemble of the
Académie.

More about Luigi Gaggero:
http://www.luigigaggero.com/

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