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- Summary
- Thirty years experience as an international orchestra conductor of works spanning the classics, the romantic period, and the 20th century. Includes symphony and chamber music concerts, operas, and ballets. Ten years as principal trumpet with Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and Israel Chamber Orchestra. Nationality: Israeli and British.
- Experience
- Symphony / Chamber Music Experience
- Music Director & Principal Conductor, “Classica” Chamber Orchestra (Israel) (since 2002).
- Principal Conductor & Music Adviser, Ashdod Chamber Orchestra (Israel) (1999-2002).
- Principal Guest Conductor, Orquestra Nacional do Porto (1992-1998).
- Music Director and Principal Conductor, Cape Town Symphony Orchestra (1989-1992).
- Principal Guest conductor, Cape Town Symphony Orchestra (1985-1989).
- Founder/Music Director, London Lyric Orchestra (1982-1987).
- Principal Guest Conductor, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (1987-1989).
- Guest Conductor: Royal Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Israel chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Sinfonietta, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia of England, Columbus Symphony (Ohio), Ulster Orchestra (northern Ireland), Orquestra Nacional do Porto (Portugal), Simfonica Portuguesa, Het Brabant Orchestra (Holland), Avanti Orchestra (Finland), Lahti Orchestra (Finland), Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Western Australia Symphony Orchestra, Tasmania Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Natal Philharmonic, Transvaal Philharmonic. The Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra.
Opera and Ballet Experience
- La Traviata - Orange Free State Opera Co., South Africa.
- La Bohem - Australian Opera (Sydney Opera House during Bicentennial).
- Hansel & Gretel - Victorian Opera Co.
- Dido and Aeneas and Let's Make an Opera (Britten) - Bedford Park Festival, London.
- La Canterina (Haydn) and Aunt Caroline's Will (Roussel) - Guildhall School of music.
- The Dutch National Ballet (toured U.S.A., Canada and Holland), Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet (on tour), Bat - Sheva Dance Company (Israel).
Television / Recordings / Film
Invited in 1982 by the British Film Institute to reconstruct the original score of Shostakovich's music first complete version of the silent film, 'New Babylon'. Conducted the first performance in the west at Queen Elizabeth Hall, followed by performances at New York Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, Helsinki Festival, and Flanders Festival. Tours were later repeated in Holland and United Kingdom.
Numerous television appearances with National Symphony of South Africa, Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Nacional do Porto, and Ulster Orchestra (Stravinsky's - Petrushka)
Recordings: New Babylon, BBC TV's "Arena Special." Numerous studio recordings, ABC.
Several CD's for Polygram/ABC Records and Clermont Records of works by Beethoven, Respighi, South Africa's Arnold Van Wyk (complete symphonic works), Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Paganini. Bartok and Szymanowsky. Malcolm Williamson and Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph.
Future recordings include an album of three CD's of Matutini dei Morti by J. Domingos Bomtempo.
Academic Experience
- Conductor, National Center for Orchestral Studies, England.
- Conductor, South Africa Youth Orchestra.
- Conductor, Trinity College of Music, London.
- Conductor/Professor, Guildhall School of Music, London.
- Young Israeli Philharmonic (2001, 2002).
- Superior School of Music – Porto, Portugal
* Honorary Degree, Guildhall School of Music - FGSM.
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