Case Scaglione is currently in his sixth season as a Chief Conductor of the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn (WKO) in Germany and in his fifth season as a Music Director of Orchestre national d’Île-de-France. He has previously served as Associate Conductor with the New York Philharmonic and as Music Director of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra of Los Angeles. Scaglione was the driving force behind the artistic growth and diversification of the organization, founding their educational outreach initiative “360° Music.”
While working with Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, Scaglione has explored a plethora of repertoire. In the 2021–22 season, Scaglione’s repertoire focused predominantly on music by Strauss, Wagner, Mahler, Dvořák and Béla Bartók, which then developed for the 2022–23 season into a focus on Beethoven, Ravel, Mahler, Sibelius, Britten and Anna Clyne.
During the 2022–23 season, Scaglione and WKO continued to appear regularly at Stuttgart’s Liederhalle, Kloster Schöntal, Musikhalle Ludwigsburg, Queen Elisabeth’s Hall in Antwerp, Munich’s Prinzregententheater and Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg. Composers of classical and early Romantic periods, as well as those of the 20th and 21st centuries featured prominently throughout Scaglione’s 2022–23 season with the ensemble.
Recent guest conducting highlights included appearances in the United Kingdom at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Lighthouse Poole with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and his Irish debut with the RTE Symphony Orchestra.
European conducting highlights included appearances in Hamburg with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Spain with Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra in Valladolid and at Madrid’s Teatro Monumental with RTVE Symphony Orchestra, his Polish debut with the Szczecin Philharmonic, and his Danish debut with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra. In the U.S., Scaglione recently collaborated with the Utah Symphony and San Diego Symphony and returned to the Phoenix Symphony. During the 2021–22 season Scaglione also made his highly acclaimed debut at the Opéra national de Paris in a production of Richard Strauss’ Elektra. In the 2023–24 season, notable debuts include the Cincinnati and Prague symphony orchestras.
In North America in the past, Scaglione successfully collaborated with the New York Philharmonic and the Houston, Dallas, Detroit and Baltimore symphony orchestras. In Asia, he has led concerts with the China Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Shanghai and Guangzhou symphony orchestras, in addition to regular returns to the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
Scaglione enjoys close relationships with many of the world’s leading soloists, including Simone Lamsma, Yeol Eum Son, Federico Colli, Alisa Weilerstein, Yulianna Avdeeva, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Behzod Abduraimov. Scaglione has been mentored by some of the most prominent conductors on the world stage today, including Alan Gilbert, Jaap van Zweden and David Zinman.
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