| Music Encyclopedia: Gary Bertini |
(b Brichevo, 1 May 1927). Israeli conductor and composer of Russian birth. He studied in Milan and Paris. His conducting début was with the Israel PO (1955) which he took on a tour of the USA in 1960; he has appeared with the ECO (1965) and other British orchestras. He has given several first performances. His compositions include music for the stage and choral arrangements.
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Gary Bertini (Hebrew: גארי ברתיני) (born 1 May 1927; died 18 March 2005) was an Israeli conductor.
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Gary Bertini was born Shloyme Golergant in Bricheva, Bessarabia, then in Romania, now in Donduşeni District, Moldova. His father, K. A. Bertini (Arn Golergant), was a poet and translator of the Russian (Leonid Andereyev) and Yiddish (A.Sutzkever, H. Leivick) literature into Hebrew, and of the Hebrew works into Yiddish. His mother Berta Golergant was a physician and biologist. They immigrated to Palestine in 1946. Gary studied music at the Music Teachers' College in Tel Aviv and then in Milan, Italy, and at the Paris Conservatoire.
Upon returning to Israel, Gary Bertini established Rinat (the Israel Chamber Choir) in 1955. He was musical advisor to the Batsheva Dance Company. He founded the Israel Chamber Orchestra in 1965 and was its conductor until 1975. He was conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 1986. He was artistic director of the New Israeli Opera from 1994 until his death. He promoted Israeli music and helped shape it.
Bertini's work also took him outside Israel. He was music advisor to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 1981 to 1983 and the Principal Conductor of the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1983 until 1991. He also served as general music director of the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt from 1987 to 1990, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra from 1998 to 2005, and, just before he died, director of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. He also worked as a guest conductor with the Hamburg State Opera, Scottish Opera, La Scala, Opéra National de Paris, and the Berlin Philharmonic among other organizations.[1]
Bertini's recording of the complete cycle of Mahler symphonies (EMI Classics 40238) is very well regarded[2][3][4].
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| Preceded by Hiroshi Wakasugi |
Principal Conductor, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne 1983–1991 |
Succeeded by Hans Vonk |
| Preceded by Hiroshi Wakasugi |
Music Director, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra 1998–2005 |
Succeeded by James DePreist |
| Preceded by Gabriele Ferro |
Music Director, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples 2004 |
Succeeded by Jeffrey Tate |
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