Conductor and violinist Antonello Manacorda first appeared on the conducting scene in a 2000 production of La clemenza di Tito. At the time, he had virtually no conducting experience, but influential figures accurately spotted his talent, and he has emerged as a versatile and innovative figure. Claudio Abbado named Manacorda concertmaster of the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester in 1994, and when the Mahler Chamber Orchestra was formed three years later, he was a natural choice for concertmaster. In 2010, Manacorda assumed the conductorship of the Kammerakademie Potsdam, where he introduced elements of historical performance practice and recorded a noted cycle of Schubert symphonies. The following year, he also became conductor of Het Gelders Orkest. Manacorda led the Kammerakademie Potsdam on acclaimed recordings of Mozart's last three symphonies and, in 2022, Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, and 7.