Incoming NSO music director Noseda gets new assignment

February 24, 2016 at 5:00 a.m. EST

Conductor Gianandrea Noseda at the Kennedy Center in January, shortly after he was announced as the NSO’s next music director. It was announced today that Noseda will add another title in 2016: principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. (Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post)

Gianandrea Noseda is adding another title to a starry resume. The London Symphony Orchestra announced today that as of the 2016-17 season, Noseda will become one of its two principal guest conductors — a full year before he officially takes over as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra.

There’s no cause for concern in Washington that Noseda’s attention will be distracted from his new post here. The London Symphony Orchestra position will involve only a couple of weeks a season; that orchestra’s main focus of attention will remain Sir Simon Rattle, who will take over as its music director in 2017, after he leaves the Berlin Philharmonic.