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Alessandro Crudele will debut at the end of this month with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest, one of the most prestigious orchestras in Eastern Europe. The two concerts, held in the Romanian Athenaeum on 30^th May and 1^st June, will be celebrating the Italian “Festa della Repubblica”. The George Enescu Philharmonic invited Crudele to conduct this special concert which represents the synergy between the two countries, Romania and Italy.

The programme features music by great Italian composers: the overture from La Forza del Destino and the sacred piece Te Deum, both by Verdi, and the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Paganini, with the young virtuoso Roman Kim. 

Despite the last piece of the programme being by Tchaikovsky, it still carries  a very Italian theme: Francesca da Rimini, a symphonic poem which sets to music the well-known tragedy narrated by Dante Alighieri in his Divine Comedy. 

Alessandro Crudele travels to Brazil this month to make his debut with the Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte on 25-26 April 2019. He conducts the orchestra in a programme that celebrates Brazil, thanks to Claudio Santoro’s Piano Concerto No. 1 – with the young Brazilian pianist Aleyson Scopel – and Respighi’s rarely performed Impressioni brasiliane, a tribute to Latin sounds, atmosphere and colours.

The programme also features one of Respighi’s masterpieces from the Roman trilogy, Fontane di Roma, and two pièces de résistance from Alessandro Crudele’s repertoire: Debussy’s Danse (orchestrated by Ravel) and Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte (whose performance, conducted by Crudele, is the most viewed on YouTube).

Alessandro Crudele’s Brazilian debut expands his worldwide engagement and follows his first performance in Belgrade as Principal Guest Conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra, which was very warmly welcomed by audience and critics.

Alessandro Crudele returns to the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Belgrade this month for his first performance as the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor on 16th March 2019. He will conduct a programme of Dvorak Symphony No. 7 , Bottesini Double Bass Concerto No. 7 and Koncertantna Muzika by the Serbian composer Srdan Hofman.

Crudele made his critically acclaimed debut with the RTS Symphony Orchestra in 2018 when he conducted the orchestra in Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5:

“In the second part of the concert, Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony No. 5 (1830) turned out to be another gem of this musical evening. […] Alessandro Crudele also took the most powerful, and at the same time, the most sensitive features of the RTS Symphony Orchestra, appealing to both dimensions equally”.
– Danas

Alessandro Crudele’s concerts with the Thüringen Philharmonie in Gotha and Eisenach on 7th and 8th February were a great success, and very well received by the critics:

“… and this, all the more with this charismatic conductor on the podium! It was a truly astonishing interpretation – and yet without any trace of showmanship.”
Dieter Albrecht, Thüringer Allgemeine, Gotha

“With clear gestures of his left hand he showed the musicians what he wanted. This resulted in beautiful interpretations. [ … ] The tranquillity in the second movement of the symphony [Brahms 4th], the fire in the third, revealed him as a master of his field. [ … ] Alessandro Crudele conjured up a beautiful Mozart with historic reminiscences”.
Gottfried Meyer, Thüringer Allgemeine, Eisenach

On 7th and 8th February 2019, Alessandro Crudele will conduct the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach in a programme including Beethoven Triple Concerto and Brahms Symphony No. 4. The soloists of the evening will be Sania Cheong (violin), Stefan Kropfitsch (violoncello) and Inkyoung Lee (piano).

These concerts mark a return for Crudele in Thuringia, where he had a huge success with the Jena Philharmonic.

For his conducting of the Jena Philharmonic on the occasion of the ‘European Church Music Festival’ in Schwäbisch Gmünd, he received a unanimous acclaim:

‘The aplomb of the orchestra, conductor and soloist delivered a moving experience – a brilliant debut in the European Church Music concerts’

‘In the first movement (…) the musicians start very fragrant and transparent. Smooth appears the pizzicato of the strings, the lines sound vibrating and lively through the always present phrasing’

‘…a great opening concert of this festival’

After having opened the season in Milan, Alessandro Crudele will debut with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra on 30th November 2018.

As a frequent guest in China, Alessandro Crudele this time joins the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra. In the last few years, this orchestra has developed into one of the finest in the country and works with conductors of the highest calibre, such as Kirill Petrenko and Zubin Mehta.

The evening will start with Mozart’s overture from “La Clemenza di Tito”, followed by Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, KV 466 with Chinese pianist Tan Xiaotang.
The second part of the programme features three fascinating pieces by Maurice Ravel: “Menuet Antique”, “Pavane pour une infante défunte“ and the Suite No. 2 from “Daphins et Chloé”

Alessandro Crudele has extensive experience with conducting works by Maurice Ravel and he is internationally acclaimed for his renderings of the French Impressionism. Crudele’s version of Ravel’s “Pavane pour une infante défunte“ is, with more than 450,000 views, the most seen worldwide on YouTube.

Alessandro Crudele returns to conduct the Orchestra UniMi on 20th November, opening their 2018/2019 season.

The concert features a programme that includes the rarely-performed Mozart‘s Symphony No. 32 paired with his well-known Jupiter Symphony and the intriguing Cello Concerto by the Italian composer Carlo Galante. The soloist of the evening will be the German cellist Alexander Hülshoff.

Alessandro Crudele is the Music Director at the Orchestra UniMi, which he founded in 2000. In the last 18 years, the conductor and orchestra have recorded many successes, hence the orchestra has become one of the most respected in Italy.

With their opening concert at Aula Magna of the Università Statale in Milan on Tuesday 20th November, their success story is entering a new season.

Alessandro Crudele has been announced as Principal Guest Conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Belgrade (RTS Symphony Orchestra), from 2018/19. He will conduct two programmes each season.

Crudele first conducted the orchestra in the last season, in a programme featuring Mendelsohn Symphony No. 5, when he struck up an instant and electrifying rapport with the musicians. Their next concert together will be in March 2019, when he will conduct one of Dvorak’s masterpieces: the Symphony No. 7 in D minor.

Read the announcement by the RTS Symphony Orchestra here.

Alessandro Crudele returns to Milan this month for a symphonic concert at the festival MiTo Settembre Musica on 18th September, 2018.
He will conduct the Orchestra UniMi in an all-French programme on the theme of “Dances” featuring the internationally acclaimed harpist Isabelle Moretti.
Among dances by Debussy and Satie, the programme will also present the Italian premiere of Pascal Zavaro’s Berceuse.

Later this month, on 26th September, Alessandro will conduct the Orchestra UniMi in a charity concert in favor of the “Niguarda Cancer Centre” in Milan.