Daniele Gatti graduated as a composer and Conductor of orchestra from the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. He is the new Conductor principal of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, as well as Conductor principal of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and artistic adviser of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

He was Conductor music of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome and previously held prestigious positions at major musical institutions such as the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Royal Opera House in London, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the Zurich Opernhaus and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.

The Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala are just some of the renowned symphonic institutions with which he collaborates.

New productions he has directed include Falstaff staged by Robert Carsen (in London, Milan, and Amsterdam); Parsifal staged by Stefan Herheim at the opening of the 2008 Bayreuther Festspiele; Parsifal staged by François Girard at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; four operas at the Salzburger Festspiele(Elektra, La bohème, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Il Trovatore). To celebrate Verdi's anniversary, in 2013 he conducted La Traviata at the season opening of Teatro alla Scala, where he had also opened the 2008 season with Don Carlo, and performed other titles including Lohengrin, Lulu, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Falstaff, and Wozzeck. He has been teaching conducting at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena since 2016.

He has opened several seasons of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma: Tristan und Isolde (2016-17), La Damnation de Faust (2017-2018), Rigoletto (2018-2019), Les Vêpres Siciliennes (2019-2020), Il barbiere di Siviglia (2020-2021), Battistelli's Giulio Cesare (2021-2022). Also with the ensembles of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, he has directed several new productions: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Zaide, La Traviata, Giovanna d'Arco at Teatro Costanzi and Rigoletto and Il trovare at Circo Massimo.

At the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino he has conducted Orphée et Eurydice, Ariadne auf Naxos, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Carlo, The Rake's Progress, Stravinsky's Pulcinella, Falstaff, the complete Tchaikovsky Symphonies, Don Pasquale and Tosca.

In 2024-25 he opens the season of the Staatskapelle and also conducts a tour of Italy with the orchestra; he also opens the season of the Vienna Philharmonic at the Vienna Musikverein in September, touring with them to major European cities. In the summer of 2025 he returns to the Bayreuth Festival for a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

He was awarded the "Franco Abbiati" Prize three times by Italian music critics as the best Conductor of the year. In 2016, he was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur by the French Republic for his work as Conductor music of the Orchestre National de France. His awards also include that of Grande Ufficiale al Merito of the Italian Republic.

With Sony Classical he has recorded works by Debussy and Stravinsky with the Orchestre National de France, and a DVD of Wagner's Parsifal staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. With the RCO Live label, he has recorded Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, Mahler's First, Second and Fourth Symphonies, a DVD of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps together with Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune and La Mer, a DVD of Strauss's Salome performed at the Dutch National Opera, a CD of Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 together with Wagner's Prelude and Symphony. 9 together with the Prelude and Karfreitagszauber (Good Friday Music) from Wagner's Parsifal .

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