GiovanniAntonini

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About Giovanni

Conductor: Il Giardino Armonico Principal Guest Conductor: Kammerorchester Basel

Giovanni Antonini is renowned for his refined and innovative interpretations of Baroque & Classical repertoire. He is a regular guest with Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouworkest, Tonhalle Orchester, Mozarteum Orchester, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, London Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
His opera productions have included Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Bellini’s Norma with Cecilia Bartoli at Salzburg Festival. In 2018 he conducted Orlando at Theater an der Wien and returned to Opernhaus Zürich for Idomeneo. In 2019 he conducted Guilio Cesare for La Scala, returning there in 2021 for Così fan tutte.

In the 2023/24 season, Giovanni returns to Bamberger Symphoniker, Tonhalle Zürich, SWR Symphonieorchester and Czech Philharmonic in addition to projects with Il Giardino Armonico and Kammerorchester Basel.

He is Artistic Director of the Haydn2032 project, recording and performing with Il Giardino Armonico and Kammerorchester Basel the complete symphonies of Haydn by the time of the 300th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The first fourteen volumes have been released on the Alpha Classics label with two further volumes planned every year.

Giovanni is based in Milan

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt (excl. Spain)

Partner management:
Spain - Duetto Management

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024 - Oct 2024

Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Cesti: L'Orontea Giovanni Antonini (conductor) Robert Carsten (director) Orontea: Stéphanie d’Oustrac Creonte: Mirco Palazzi Silandra: Francesca Pia Vitale Corindo: Hugh Cutting Gelone: Luca Tittoto Tibrino: Sara Blanch Aristea: Marianna Pizzolato Alidoro: Carlo Vistoli Giacinta: Maria Nazarova

Oct 2024

Philharmonie Berlin

Haydn: Symphony No. 54 Haydn: Arianna a Naxos Haydn: Symphony No. 44 "Trauer" Mozart: Instrumental music from Thamos Berliner Philharmoniker Giovanni Antonini (conductor) Fatma Said (soprano)

Jan 2025

Konzerthalle Bamberg

Mozart: Symphony no. 40 in G minor Telemann: Recorder Concerto in C Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C "Jupiter" Bamberger Symphoniker Giovanni Antonini (conductor, recorder)

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Haydn 2032
Giovanni Antonini talks about his project ‘Haydn 2032’ which explores Haydn’s music on a deeper level, for his 300th anniversary. The project includes period performances and recordings of all Haydn’s 107 symphonies with Il Giardino Armonico and Kammerorchester Basel. Credit: Blackblitz
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Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2
Kristian Bezuidenhout performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Kammerorchester Basel, conducted by Giovanni Antonini. at the Menuhin Festival Credit: Kammerorchester Basel
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Haydn: Symphony no. 80
Giovanni Antonini conducts Kammerorchester Basel in Haydn Symphony No. 80 in D minor Credit: Haydn2032
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Opus Klassik Awards announced with five Askonas Holt artists receiving honours

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Haydn 2032 Vol 13 " Hornsignal"
Recording
Feb 2023
- Brought exuberantly to life by Il Giardino Armonico, directed by Giovanni Antonini...There is a delight in revealing the detail and plenty of lingering over the slower beauties of the writing. Fizz and energy never far away thought and it's some of the most exhilarating Haydn around at the moment. BBC Radio 3 Record Review
  - BBC Radio 3 Record Review
  - 10 February 2023
- Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico dispatch it [Symphony no. 48] with as much excitement as any version I’ve heard, and find in it a deal more light and shade than most other recordings...Vol 13 is another undoubted triumph.
  - Gramophone Magazine
  - 01 January 2023