Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez
(born January 26, 1981, Barquisimeto, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist.
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Biography
Dudamel is the son of a trombonist and a voice teacher.
[1] 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 he was taught the violin by José Luis Jiménez. He then went on to work with José Francisco del Castillo at the
Latin-American Violin Academy.
He 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.
Dudamel began to win a number of conducting competitions, including the
Gustav Mahler Conducting Prize in Germany in 2004.
[2] His reputation began to spread, and he was noticed by conductors such as
Simon Rattle and
Claudio Abbado [3] , who accepted invitations to conduct the Simón Bolívar Orchestra in Venezuela.
Dudamel debuted with the
Philharmonia, the
Israel Philharmonic, and the
Los Angeles Philharmonic, among others, in 2005, and also signed a recording contract with
Deutsche Grammophon. In 2006, his additional guest conducting appearances included concerts with the
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the
Dresden Staatskapelle and the
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. He made his debut at
La Scala,
Milan, with
Don Giovanni
in November 2006. On September 10, 2007, he conducted the
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time at the
Lucerne Festival. In March 2008, he made his debut with the
San Francisco Symphony and in May 2009 he will conduct the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.
In 2005, Dudamel first conducted the
Gothenburg Symphony at the
BBC Proms, on short notice as a replacement for the indisposed
Neeme Järvi.
[4] [5] In 2006, Dudamel was named Principal Conductor of the
Gothenburg Symphony.
[6] He continues to retain his position with the Simón Bolívar National Youth Orchestra.
[7] He took up the Gothenburg post in 2007, and his current contract there is to 2011.
Dudamel made his U.S. conducting debut with the
Los Angeles Philharmonic (LAP) at the
Hollywood Bowl on September 13, 2005 in a program consisting of "La Noche de los Mayas" by
Silvestre Revueltas and the
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5.
[8] Dudamel was subsequently invited back to conduct the orchestra at
Walt Disney Concert Hall in January 2007 in performances of "Dances of Galanta" by
Zoltan Kodaly, the
third piano concerto of
Sergei Rachmaninoff with
Yefim Bronfman as soloist, and
Bela Bartok's
Concerto for Orchestra (the latter of which was recorded live and subsequently released by
Deutsche Grammophon). In April 2007, during a guest conducting engagement with the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Dudamel was named the LAP's next music director as of the 2009-2010 season, succeeding
Esa-Pekka Salonen. His initial contract in Los Angeles is for five years, beginning in September 2009.
[9] [10] [11]
On
April 16,
2007, Gustavo Dudamel conducted the
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in a concert in commemoration of the 80th birthday of
Pope Benedict XVI, with
Hilary Hahn as solo violinist, with the Pope himself and many other church dignitaries among the audience.
[12]
On May, 2007, Gustavo Dudamel and his Youth Symphony Orchestra and choirs played an astonishing version of National Anthem of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the venezuelan TV channel TVEs, Dudamel is featured in the documentary film
Tocar y Luchar
, which covers
El Sistema. Dudamel and the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar received the WQXR Gramophone Special Recognition Award in New York City in November 2007. Another US television news feature on was on
60 Minutes
in February 2008, titled "Gustavo the Great".
On
July 23,
2009, Gustavo Dudamel was hand-selected by the Eighth
Glenn Gould Prize laureate
José Antonio Abreu as winner of the prestigious
The City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize.
Personal life
Dudamel married his longtime girlfriend, Eloísa Maturén, in 2006 in
Caracas. The
Simón Bolívar National Youth Orchestra combined forces with the
Schola Cantorum de Venezuela and the Orfeon Universitario de la UCLA to make the event a special musical celebration. The wedding took place in the cathedral at the
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in
Montalbán, a suburb of Caracas. Maturén, also a Venezuelan native, is a classically trained
ballet dancer and a journalist.
References
- Conductor Gustavo Dudamel is riding a wave of Dudamania
- He's astonishingly gifted
- BBC Proms 2007: Why I'm worried about Gustavo
- Conducting prodigy to make Proms debut at 24
- Gothenburg SO/Dudamel (review of Prom 30, 2005)
- Gustavo Dudamel Appointed Principal Conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony
- True class: South America’s lightning conductor
- He holds Bowl in palm of his hands;
Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel, 24, commands attention
- Maestro will pass baton to up-and-comer in '09
- Gustavo Dudamel to Succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen at LA Philharmonic in 2009
- Gustavo Dudamel to Succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen at LA Philharmonic in 2009
- Pope marks 80th birthday with concert