Jader Bignamini
Jader Bignamini was introduced as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony in January 2020. His tenure has already included a highly successful tour to Florida, commissions and premieres of new work, audience growth in and around Detroit, and the release of a brand new recording of Wynton Marsalis’ Blues Symphony, Jader’s first commercial release with the DSO.
Outside of Detroit, the 2024-25 season includes Bignamini’s debuts with the Atlanta Symphony, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, plus return engagements with the symphony orchestras of Bergen and Bern, and a production of Otello at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo.
Recent highlights include concerts with The Cleveland Orchestra, Houston, Dallas, Milwaukee, National, and New Jersey Symphonies; and the Minnesota Orchestra. Internationally, he has conducted the London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, and Residentie Orkest The Hague. Opera highlights include productions with the Metropolitan Opera, Opera de Paris, Vienna State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera, Dutch National Opera, Oper Frankfurt, and Canadian Opera Company. Bignamini led an extensive tour across Asia in August 2024 with the Asian Youth Orchestra.
In Summer 2021, Bignamini conducted triumphant performances of Turandot at the Arena di Verona with Anna Netrebko and Yusiv Eyvazov, as well as a staged production of Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Other highlights include Cavalleria rusticana at Michigan Opera Theatre, La bohème at Santa Fe Opera, La Traviata in Tokyo directed by Sofia Coppola, Manon Lescaut at the Bolshoi, La Traviata at Bayerische Staatsoper, Eugene Onegin at Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Turandot at the Teatro Filarmonica, Il Trovatore at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, the opening concert of the Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna conducting Carmina Burana; La Bohème at the Municipal de São Paulo and La Fenice; L'Elisir d'Amore in Ancona; Tosca at the Comunale di Bologna; La Forza del Destino at the Verdi Festival in Parma; La Bohème, Cavalleria Rusticana, and L'Amor Brujo at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona; Aida at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera; Madama Butterfly at La Fenice; engagements with Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, and the MITO Festival conducting Berlioz’ Messe Solennelle. He made his concert debut at La Scala in 2015.
Bignamini began his conducting career as Assistant and then Resident Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica la Verdi, having been appointed by Riccardo Chailly in 2010. He was born in Crema and studied at the Piacenza Music Conservatory.
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