Orchestra Mozart
Orchestra in residence 2022 – 2024
The Orchestra Mozart was founded in 2004 within a special project of Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, with which it still continues working. The ensemble features soloists and principal players from the most prestigious international orchestras, as well as young talents from all over Europe. Throughout its years of activity, the Orchestra has collaborated with important musical institutions, such as Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Royal Festival Hall in London and Salle Pleyel in Paris.
A hallmark of the Orchestra’s identity is its constant effort aimed at combining the symphonic spirit with the chamber music one, that is to say, keeping in mind the importance of reciprocal listening and experience-sharing, which are crucial in chamber music. For this reason, along with its great symphonic repertoire, the Orchestra Mozart has always cultivated its chamber music repertoire by offering concerts featuring different ensembles, from trio to octet, to small ensembles, in which principal players and musicians of the Orchestra have participated from time to time as I Solisti dell’Orchestra Mozart.
The Orchestra Mozart has been directed ever since its foundation and for the following ten years by Claudio Abbado. In 2014, after Maestro Abbado’s demise, the Orchestra interrupted its activities, then came back in 2016 thanks to an important crowdfunding campaign, promoted by the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna and supported with strength and dedication by the musicians themselves.
From 2017 to 2019 the Orchestra was directed by Bernard Haitink for the Easter concerts in Lugano, held every year in the artistic residence of LuganoMusica, and in the following days in Bologna.
In 2019 the Orchestra Mozart found an important new guide in Daniele Gatti. As its Music Director, Gatti aimed from the very beginning at broadening the Orchestra’s repertoire, turning to both the early twentieth century and to the less known compositions of the traditional nineteenth-century repertoire. With his valuable work, Gatti is adding new hallmarks to the Orchestra’s identity, both in terms of its analytical depth and straightforwardness and of the communicative immediacy of its performance.
Since 2022 the Orchestra Mozart will be guest of Ferrara Musica for a three-year artistic residency. In this framework, together with its Musical Director Daniele Gatti, it will work on a significant project that features the performance of Beethoven’s nine symphonies.
