Piero Gamba

Piero Gamba (also called Pierino Gamba) is a world renown orchestra conductor, pianiste et ex-child prodigy, Italian, born in Rome on December 16th 1936.

Biography

Piero Gamba won the Arnold Bax Memorial Medal in 1962.
He was, among others, the musical director and conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra from 1971 till 1980.
He was also the main conductor of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1980 till 1987 ; where he conducted among others the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Finally he was the musical director and conductor of the SODRE National Symphonic Orchestra of Uruguay from 1994 till 1995 as well as from 2001 till 2004.

Interpreted Composers

Here is a short list of some of the composers Piero Gamba conducted the works of :
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piston, Dmitri Shostakovich, Hans Werner Henze, Johann Sebastian Bach, Paul Hindemith, Tomaso Albinoni, John Cage, Gomez, Hector Berlioz, Igor Stravinski, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Béla Bartók, Chapi, Jones, Sergei Prokofiev, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Richard Wagner, Vincenzo Bellini, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nielsen, Aram Khachaturian, Georges Bizet, Whettam, Larsson, Johannes Brahms, Soler, Antonín Dvořák, Mancinelli, Wieniavsky, Antonio Vivaldi, Joaquín Turina, Monsalvatge, Edward Elgar, Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Jean Françaix, Franck Pourcel, V. Williams, Holst, Jacques Offenbach, P. Glass, Alberto Ginastera, Fabini, Jean Papineau-Couture, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Alexandre Glazounov, George Gershwin, Hugo Alfvén, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mascagni, Landowsky, Frédéric Chopin, Edvard Grieg, Isaac Albéniz, César Franck, Gould, Gioachino Rossini, Modest Mussorgsky, Dag Wirén, Jimenez, Samuel Barber, Joseph Haydn, Mikhail Glinka, Domenico Cimarosa, Franz von Suppé, Paul Dukas, Enrique Granados, Kodaly, Jean Sibelius, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Black, Ottorino Respighi, Giuseppe Martucci, Saint Saens, Mansel, Weber, Amilcare Ponchielli, Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss I, Bruch, Pablo de Sarasate, Carl Orff, Anton Bruckner, Anton Webern, Oskar Morawetz, Hetu, Witold Lutosławski, John Weinzweig, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Cortina, Storm, Rodrigo, Joaquín Turina, Boccherini, Alban Berg, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Franz Liszt, Alexander Borodin, Arditi, Novacek, Benjamin Britten, Fernstrom, Rodrigo, Kreisler, Gaetano Donizetti, Robert Schumann, William Schuman, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Botto, Ernest Chausson, Édouard Lalo, Erland von Koch, Baldassare Galuppi, Moritz Moszkowski, Jacob, George Frideric Handel, Alexander Scriabin, Niccolò Paganini, Bedřich Smetana, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Franz Schubert, Manuel de Falla, William Walton, Gustav Mahler, Francis Poulenc, Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Riccardo Zandonai, Jules Massenet, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Franz Lehár, Giacomo Puccini, Vila Lobos, Michel Legrand, Tosar, Clouzot Mortet, Henri Vieuxtemps, Krzysztof Penderecki...

Honours

Piero Gamba is Honorary Conductor for Life of the following orchestras:
- Philharmonia Antwerpen
- Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid
- Orquesta Filarmonica Barcelona
- Orquesta da Camara Barcelona
- Orquesta A.P.O. Buenos Aires
- Orquesta A.U.D.E.M. Montevideo
- Asociacion Coral Porto
Piero Gamba was one of the founders of Symphonicum Europae Foundation, an institution who's aim is to promote greater harmony of mankind through the arts.

Discography

- Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3-5, Piero Gamba conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, and Julius Katchen (Audio CD 1996)
- Beethoven: The Piano Concertos; Choral Fantasy; Diabelli Variations, Piero Gamba conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, and Julius Katchen (Audio CD 2007) Box set
- Liszt: The Piano Concertos, Ataulfo Argenta, Piero Gamba conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and London Symphony Orchestra (Audio CD 2002)
- Rossini: Overtures, Piero Gamba conducts the London Symphony Orchestra (Audio CD 1990)
- Rossini: Overtures, Piero Gamba conducts the London Symphony Orchestra (Audio CD 2004) Original recording remastered

External Links

* [http://www.pierogamba.com/ The personal web site of Piero Gamba]
* [http://french.imdb.com/title/tt0038572/ La Grande Aurora (The Great Dawn) is a semi-biographical account of Pierino Gamba's early musical genius.]
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_Gamba Article on Piero Gamba on Wikipedia in French]