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Sir Simon Rattle

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Sir Simon Denis Rattle (born 19 January 1955) is an English conductor.
He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–98). Rattle was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 2002 to 2018.
It was announced in March 2015 that Rattle would become Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra from September 2017.
As a passionate supporter of Music Education, Rattle is also the patron of Birmingham Schools' Symphony Orchestra, arranged during his tenure with CBSO in mid 1990s. The Youth Orchestra is now under the auspices of charitable business Services for Education.
Simon Rattle was born in Liverpool, the son of Pauline Lila Violet (Greening) and Denis Guttridge Rattle, a lieutenant in the RNVR during WWII. He was educated at Liverpool College. Although Rattle studied piano and violin, his early work with orchestras was as a percussionist for the Merseyside Youth Orchestra (now Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra). He entered the Royal Academy of Music (now part of the University of London), in 1971. There, his teachers included John Carewe. In 1974, his graduation year, Rattle won the John Player International Conducting Competition.

After organising and conducting a performance of Mahler's Second Symphony while he was still at the Academy, he was talent-spotted by the music agent Martin Campbell-White, of Harold Holt Ltd (now Askonas Holt Ltd), who has since managed Rattle's career. He spent the academic year 1980/81 at St Anne's College, Oxford studying English Language and Literature. He had been attracted to the college by the reputation of Dorothy Bednarowska, Fellow and Tutor in English. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of St Anne's in 1991. He was admitted to the degree of Doctor of Music honoris causa of the University of Oxford in 1999.

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Elaine Grimaud

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Hélène-Grimaud (French: Hélène-Rose-Paule Grimaud, November 7, 1969 -) is a French pianist.
In November 1969, she was born in the family of Jewish linguists in France Aix-en-Provence. At the age of nine, she entered the music school of Aix-en-Provence and studied under J. Kurtier. After that, she studied under Pierre Barbizese in Marseille. In 1982, she entered the National Paris Conservatory at the age of 13. Learn piano from Jacques Rougier and indoor music from Genovieve Joie.

1984 she debuted recording. In 1985 Rachmaninoff 's "Piano Sonata No. 2" was recorded and she received Montreux' s Disk Award . In the same year, she went to Graduate School of Paris Conservatoire and learned from Jelzi Schandold and Leon Fleischer. In 1986 she appeared at the Aix-en-Provence music festival. Since 1987 she started to work as a professional soloist in Paris and co-starred with the Paris Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Since then, she has continuously performed in the European and American famous orchestra and performed at various countries around the world. 1990 she got Cleveland Orchestra's invitation to North America debut, then moved to the United States at the age of 21 the next year.

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Pavo Jarvi

Pavo Jarvi (Paavo Järvi, December 30, 1962 -) is a conductor from Estonia. Currently it is a United States nationality.
He has a conductor Neem Jarvi as his father and was named after Finnish conductor Pervor Berglund. Brother Christian is also a conductor, sister Maria is a flute player. Like his father, he learned from the music school of Tallinn 's fabric and went to the USA. After studying conducting at the Curtis Conservatory, he received the tenance of Leonard Bernstein at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Music School. In addition, he also studied with Ormandy, Dorati, Shorty, Marta, Batis and others.

In 2001 he became the 12th Chief Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Since the first visit to Japan in 1995, there are also many performances in Japan. In 2006, he performed a Japanese performance with German Kammer Philharmonic Bremen, and made a successful topic of Beethoven 's symphony orchestra performances.

He has guested in major orchestras around the world such as the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In 2006 he became the music director of the hr symphony orchestra, in 2010 the Paris Orchestra. Currently he is one of the busiest conductors in the world. In addition to recording all songs of Beethoven Symphony and the German Kamar Phil during 2006-2009, Bruckner's symphony recording project is in progress with the hr symphony orchestra.

In addition to Nordic composers such as Grieg, Sibelius, Steenhammar, Pavo Jarvi is good at Debussy. Regardless of which repertoire's performance / recording, he reveals the difference with his father Neem by making polite music creation and a gentle expression, delicate expressions rich in nuances, singing like a natural breathing, and so on. In contrast to fathers who tend to stand out brass instruments and tend to run "bombardment", they tend to emphasize the moody tone of stringed instruments and the mellow sound of woodwind instruments.

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Alan Gilbert (Conductor)

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Alan Gilbert (born February 23, 1967) is an American conductor and violinist. He was most recently music director of the New York Philharmonic, and is the scheduled chief conductor-designate of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.

From 1995 to 1997, Gilbert was an assistant conductor with the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1997, he won the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award.

Santa Fe Opera
Gilbert's long association with Santa Fe Opera dates back to 1993, when he served as the orchestra's assistant concert master. Prior to that, both of Gilbert's parents played in the opera's orchestra, and his father served as concert master for a number of years. In 2001, Gilbert conducted his first Santa Fe Opera production, Verdi's Falstaff. In 2003, he became Santa Fe Opera's first music director. His initial contract concluded at the end of the 2006 season. In November 2006, it was reported that Gilbert was to be on "official sabbatical from June through August 2007" to spend more time with his family. In May 2007, Santa Fe Opera announced that Gilbert had officially concluded his tenure as their music director, as of 2006.

New York Philharmonic
Gilbert built much of his reputation conducting contemporary and American music, and his appointment by the Philharmonic marked somewhat of a shift by the orchestra away from his more conservative predecessors Lorin Maazel, Kurt Masur, and Zubin Mehta. He is the first New York City-born conductor to be named music director of the New York Philharmonic. For his inaugural 2009/10 Philharmonic season, Gilbert introduced a number of new initiatives, including the presence of Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg and Artist-in-Residence Thomas Hampson. The festivals and tours he has introduced include CONTACT – the Philharmonic's new-music series; and a major tour of Asia and the Middle East in October 2009, with debuts in Hanoi and Abu Dhabi. In February 2015, the orchestra announced the scheduled conclusion of Gilbert's tenure as music director at the end of the 2016-2017 season.

Gilbert was principal conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra from 2000 to 2008. He now has the title of conductor laureate with the Stockholm ensemble. From 2004 through 2015, he was principal guest conductor of the NDR Symphony Orchestra. He made his Metropolitan Opera conducting debut in November 2008 with John Adams' opera, Doctor Atomic.

Gilbert is the first person to hold the William Schuman chair in Musical Studies at the Juilliard School. The position includes coaching, conducting, and performance master classes. Gilbert assumed the post in the fall of 2009.

In June 2017, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (formerly the NDR Symphony Orchestra) announced the appointment of Gilbert as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2019-2020 season, with an initial contract of 5 seasons. He is scheduled to take the title of chief conductor-designate in the autumn of 2017.

Gilbert conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig for New Year's Eve on 31 December 20

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Gustavo Dudamel

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Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (born January 26, 1981) is a Venezuelan and Spanish conductor and violinist. He is the music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Dudamel was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, the son of a trombonist and a voice teacher. He studied music from an early age, becoming involved with El Sistema, the famous Venezuelan musical education program, and took up the violin at age ten. He soon began to study composition. He attended the Jacinto Lara Conservatory, where José Luis Jiménez was among his violin teachers. He then went on to work with José Francisco del Castillo at the Latin-American Violin Academy. Barrett Baker of Pace Academy coined his nickname, "Duda".

Dudamel began to study conducting in 1995, first with Rodolfo Saglimbeni, then later with José Antonio Abreu. In 1999, he was appointed music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, the national youth orchestra of Venezuela, and toured several countries. He attended Charles Dutoit's master class in Buenos Aires in 2002, and worked as assistant for Simon Rattle in Berlin and Salzburg in 2003.

Dudamel has won a number of competitions, including the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Germany in 2004. His reputation began to spread, attracting the attention of conductors such as Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado, who accepted invitations to conduct the Simón Bolívar Orchestra in Veneite. In April 2006 Dudamel was appointed as principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony for season 2007-2008.

Dudamel made his debut at La Scala, Milan, with Don Giovanni in November 2006. On September 10, 2007, he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic for the first time at the Lucerne Festival. On April 16, 2007 he conducted the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall in a concert in commemoration of the 80th birthday of Pope Benedict XVI, with Hilary Hahn as solo violinist, with the Pope and many other church dignitaries among the audience.

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Vladimir Ashkenazy

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Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (born 6 July 1937) is an internationally recognized solo pianist, chamber music performer, and conductor. He is originally from Russia and has held Icelandic citizenship since 1972. He has lived in Switzerland since 1978.

Ashkenazy has collaborated with well-known orchestras and soloists. In addition, he has recorded a large storehouse of classical and romantic works. His recordings have earned him five Grammy awards plus Iceland's Order of the Falcon.

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