Luigi Gaggero

Luigi Gaggero is an Italian percussionist, conductor and academic teacher who has worked internationally. He is the chief conductor of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra, and cimbalon teacher at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, the only professor of cimbalon in Western Europe.

Luigi Gaggero
Gaggero conducting the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden on 28 April 2022
Born
Italy
Occupation
  • Classical percussionist
  • Conductor
  • Academic teacher
Organization
Websiteluigigaggero.com

History

Gaggero was born in Italy. He studied percussion and conducting with Andrea Pestalozza, cimbalon with Márta Fábián in Budapest. He studied percussion further with Edgar Guggeis and Rainer Seegers at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin, where he graduated a solo diploma with distinction.[1] He came to Ukraine as a performing percussionist around 2012, and was impressed by the quiet attention of the audience, listening like to a spiritual message ("geistige Botschaft").[2] He co-founded and directed the Ukho Ensemble Kyiv for contemporary music in 2015. He has taught cimbalon and percussion at the Conservatoire de Strasbourg, as the only full professor of cimbalon in Western Europe.[1]

Gaggero became chief conductor of the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra in 2018.[3] During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the orchestra was invited to play a series of concerts in Poland and Germany, beginning with a concert in Warsaw on 21 April.[4] They have performed in Germany at the Kulturpalast in Dresden,[5] Leipzig,[2] the Berliner Philharmonie, the Kurhaus Wiesbaden as part of the Rheingau Musik Festival,[6] Freiburg, the Kuppelsaal of the Stadthalle Hannover and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.[7][8] The program of the tour is focused on Ukrainian music, with works by Maxim Berezovsky, Myroslav Skoryk and Borys Lyatoshynsky.[2] The program for Wiesbaden combined Berezovsky's Symphony in C major from the 1770s with Chausson's Poème for violin and orchestra, Op. 25, Skoryk's Melody in A minor (1982) and Lyatoshynsky's Symphony No. 3, Op. 50 (1951).[6][5] The violinist was Aleksey Semenenko.[6]

References
  1. "Luigi Gaggero" (in German). Staatsoper Berlin. 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  2. Ernst, Michael (25 April 2022). "Sinfonieorchester Kiew : Die Ukraine existiert, das zeigen wir mit Kunst, Geschichte und Musik!". FAZ (in German). Archived from the original on 25 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  3. "Ukrainische Musik in Zeiten des Krieges / Das Kyiv Symphony Orchestra gastiert in der Philharmonie Berlin" (in German). Berliner Philharmoniker. 2022. Archived from the original on 22 April 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  4. ""Culture triumphs over evil": Kyiv Symphony Orchestra woos Warsaw and performs for first time since invasion". thefirstnews.com. 2022. Archived from the original on 22 April 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  5. "Sonderkonzert / Das Kyiv Symphony Orchestra" (PDF) (in German). Dresden Philharmonic. 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  6. "Kyiv Symphony Orchestra / Luigi Gaggero, Leitung / Aleksey Semenenko, Violine". Rheingau Musik Festival. 2022. Archived from the original on 26 April 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  7. "Kyiv Symphony Orchestra kommt auf Deutschland-Tour". musik-heute.de (in German). 5 April 2022. Archived from the original on 11 April 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
  8. "Kyiv Symphony Orchestra / Luigi Gaggero / Fundraising concert for Ukrainehilfe Hamburg". Elbphilharmonie. 2022. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
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