Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly ( born February 20, 1953 in Milan ) is an Italian conductor.
Riccardo Chailly received his musical education from his father, the composer Luciano Chailly, before he entered the class of Franco Caracciolo at the local conservatory. He attended master classes with Piero Guarino in Perugia and Franco Ferrara at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena.
His debut Chailly in 1970 in Milan. The conductor Claudio Abbado brought the 21- year-old as his assistant and second conductors to La Scala. From 1974 he worked at the great opera houses of the world, so he conducted regularly in Chicago and 1977 in San Francisco. From 1982 to 1989 he was chief conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin.
In 1985 he made his debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, where until 2004 he was then from 1988 worked as chief conductor. He conducted there, the standard repertoire, especially the symphonies of Mahler and Bruckner, but expanded the repertoire to contemporary works and Italian operas.
Since 2005, Riccardo Chailly chief conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and music director of the Leipzig Opera. In 2008, he put after differences arising through the lead change at the Opera House, the office of director of music down, but also extended his contract as Gewandhaus Kapellmeister in 2015. 2013 he extended his contract as Gewandhaus Kapellmeister in 2020. From January 2015 he is also Music Director of the his La Scala in Milan, as the successor of Daniel Barenboim.