| Gustavo Dudamel | |
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| Birth name | Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez |
| Born | January 26, 1981 Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela |
| Genre(s) | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
| Instrument(s) | Violin |
| Years active | 1999-present |
| Website | www.GustavoDudamel.com |
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.[1]
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".
Conducting style
Dudamel's baton technique has three primary characteristics:[citation needed]
- He holds the baton extremely high, almost above his head;
- he usually holds the baton at his finger tips, and
- during fast and frantic music, he tends to lift himself off the podium in a whirling, cyclic movement.
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
- ^ a b Reed Johnson (23 November 2008). "Conductor Gustavo Dudamel is riding a wave of Dudamania". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-et-dudamel23-2008nov23,0,1947651.story. Retrieved on 2008-11-23.
- ^ Sue Steward (23 Feb 2006). "He's astonishingly gifted". Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/02/23/bmgust23.xml. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
- ^ Geoffrey Norris (16 August 2007). "BBC Proms 2007: Why I'm worried about Gustavo". Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;jsessionid=LYDAAJFU23ACVQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/arts/2007/08/16/nosplit/bmgust116.xml. Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
- ^ Charlotte Higgins (4 August 2005). "Conducting prodigy to make Proms debut at 24". The Guardian. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/proms2005/story/0,,1542361,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
- ^ Tim Ashley (8 August 2005). "Gothenburg SO/Dudamel (review of Prom 30, 2005)". The Guardian. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/critic/review/0,,1544606,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
- ^ Vivien Schweitzer (13 Apr 2006). "Gustavo Dudamel Appointed Principal Conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony". Playbill Arts. http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/4342.html. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
- ^ Richard Morrison (15 Feb 2007). "True class: South America’s lightning conductor". The Times. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article1385255.ece. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
- ^ Mark Swed (15 September 2005). "He holds Bowl in palm of his hands; Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel, 24, commands attention". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Mark Swed (8 April 2007). "Maestro will pass baton to up-and-comer in '09". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-phil8apr08,0,3153725.story. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
- ^ Matthew Westphal (8 April 2007). "Gustavo Dudamel to Succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen at LA Philharmonic in 2009". Playbill Arts. http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/6286.html. Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
- ^ Daniel J. Wakin (9 April 2007). "Gustavo Dudamel to Succeed Esa-Pekka Salonen at LA Philharmonic in 2009". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/arts/music/09orch.html. Retrieved on 2008-11-23.
- ^ Nicole Winfield (16 Apr 2007). "Pope marks 80th birthday with concert". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/04/16/pope_marks_80th_birthday_with_concert. Retrieved on 2007-08-16.
External links
- Gustavo Dudamel official website
- Askonas Holt: Gustavo Dudamel
- Gustavo Dudamel biography at Deutsche Grammophon
- Gustavo Dudamel and Eloísa Maturen's civil wedding (Spanish), el universal.com, 25 November 2005 – includes wedding photographs
- Fundación de Estado para el Sistema Nacional de Orquesta Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela (El Sistema)
- 60 Minutes (CBS-TV): "Gustavo the Great" (video and transcript)
- JANERA: Dudamel in da House, by Nicole E. Foster (article and video)
- WQXR Press Release, 12 November 2007, "The 2007 WQXR Gramophone Special Recognition Award Is Presented to Gustavo Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela on the Stage of Carnegie Hall on November 10".
- Danzón no. 2 by Arturo Márquez. Gustavo Dudamel and Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra (YouTube Video)
- Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra performing for TED 2009
- Gustavo Dudamel LA Phil Information and Performance Schedule
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