The Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia was the first orchestra in Italy to devote itself exclusively to the symphonic repertoire, premiering 20th-century masterpieces such as Ottorino Respighi’s Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome. Since 1908, its podium has been visited by the likes of Mahler, R. Strauss, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Hindemith, Toscanini, Furtwängler, De Sabata, Erich and Carlos Kleiber, Solti, Mengelberg, Karajan, Stokowski, Reiner, Bruno Walter, Celibidache, Masur, Blomstedt, Abbado, Dudamel, and Kirill Petrenko. Bernardino Molinari, Franco Ferrara, Fernando Previtali, Igor Markevitch, Thomas Schippers, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Daniele Gatti, Myung-Whun Chung, and Sir Antonio Pappano (2005-2023) have been its permanent conductors. Beginning with the 2024-25 season, the new Music Director is Daniel Harding. The Orchestra has appeared at the foremost international festivals – the Proms in London and the Lucerne, Saint Petersburg, and Salzburg Festivals – and in some of the most prestigious concert venues, including Berliner Philharmonie, Semperoper in Dresden, Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, La Scala in Milan, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and Carnegie Hall in New York.