JaderBignamini

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Antonio Orlando

Antonio Orlando

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Holly Cartwright

Holly Cartwright

Assistant Artist Manager

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European (symphonic) management with Askonas Holt

Partner Managers:
Opus 3 Artists (general management)

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About Jader

Music Director: Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Jader Bignamini was appointed Music Director of the Detroit Symphony in January 2020. In December 2023, a five-year contract extension was announced seeing the partnership through to the to 2030/31 season.

In addition to concerts in Detroit, the 2023/24 season sees Jader debut with the London Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Washington’s National Symphony and New Japan Philharmonic, alongside returns to Milwaukee Symphony, Wiener Staatsoper (for Manon Lescaut) and Opéra national de Paris (for Adriana Lecouvreur).

Recent symphonic engagements have included dates with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Frankfurt’s hr–Sinfonieorchester, The Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Dallas Symphony and Berner Symphonieorchester, alongside productions for Bayerische Staatsoper, The Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin and Oper Frankurt.

A native of Crema, Jader Bignamini started his career as a clarinettist. He began his conducting career first as Assistant and then as Resident Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, having been appointed by Riccardo Chailly in 2010.

Jader is based in Detroit and Cremona

Representation

European (symphonic) management with Askonas Holt

Partner Managers:
Opus 3 Artists (general management)

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Season Highlights

Sep 2024
Chiesa del Collegio Papio, Ascona
Rossini: William Tell Overture Busoni: Nocturne for Orchestra Mozart: Symphony No. 35 Rossini: Semiramis Overture Francesca Dego (violin) Orchestra Swiss Italian at Ascona
Sep 2024
Orchestra Hall, Detroit
Tower: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 6 Schulhoff: Hot Sonate Gershwin: Cuban Overture Milhaud: Scaramouche Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from On the Town Gershwin: An American in Paris Branford Marsalis (saxophone) Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Nov 2024
Casino Bern
Márquez: Danzon No. 2 Korngold: Cello Concerto Morrincone: Sergio Leone Suite Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Gerschwin: Porgy and Bess Kian Soltani (cello) Bern Symphony Orchestra

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  • Respighi’s Roman Trilogy with National Symphony Orchestra

    Kennedy Center, Washington
    Oct 2023

    • Bignamini set and maintained an incisively fast tempo, working the foamy cascades of sound from brass and metallic percussion into furious sprays...Again a brisk pacing from Bignamini churned this climactic movement into an exciting mass of sound, with crisply articulated trombones burbling beneath the surface along with the Concert Hall organ’s rumbling pedal pipes.