The Filarmonica ‘900 del Teatro Regio di Torino is composed of musicians of the lyric orchestra in the same theatre. It was founded in 2003 on the musicians’ own initiative, and since then has associated its activity as symphonic orchestra of Teatro Regio with the goal to explore the wide variety of XX century’s music with a particular focus on the intersection point between the idea of classical music and the new trends like jazz music, music for movies, popular music.
The concerts of the Filarmonica ‘900 often host great musicians of jazz or movie music, presenting music written in the XX century. In that way, a rich repertoire is created, from the works of the most relevant XX-century’s artists like Mahler, Strauss, Ravel, Prokof’ev, Berg, Casella, Copland, Respighi and Shostakovich, to original projects born from the deep melting of the genres, such as the Gershwin’s World project by Herbie Hancock, Rhapsody in Blue with Stefano Bollani, the restored soundtrack of Cabiria by Pastrone performed live during the projection of the movie.
Important artists have worked with the Filarmonica ‘900 such as Herbie Hancock, Salvatore Accardo, Stefano Bollani, Hubert Soudant, Timothy Brock, Enrico Dindo, Jan Latham-Koenig, Leo Nucci, Dietfried Bernet, Steven Mercurio, Natalia Gutman, Julian Kovatchev, Richard Galliano, Renée Fleming, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Laurent Petitgirard, Jean Philippe Collard.
Since 2006 Jan Latham-Koenig is in charge as first guest-conductor.
Despite its recent foundation, Filarmonica ‘900 attended already two important international appointments, in summer 2004 at Festival Berlioz in France (with Laurent Petitgirard and the pianist Jean Philippe Collard) and in August 2005 at the popular Santander Festival in Spain (three performances with Renée Fleming, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Jan Latham-Koenig).