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Outdoor concert of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra with conductor Jean-François Rivest in the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro in August 2008. The orchestra has begun touring and some recording in the 1960s and early 1970s, during the tenures of Zubin Mehta and Franz-Paul Decker.
Nézet-Séguin was born in Montreal on 6 March 1975 to Serge P. Séguin, a university professor, and Claudine Nézet, a university lecturer and coordinator. [1] He began to study piano at age five, with Jeanne-d'Arc Lebrun-Lussier, and decided to become an orchestra conductor at age ten.
Payare assumed the title of music director-designate with immediate effect. [13] [14] In October 2020, the San Diego Symphony announced an extension of Payare's contract as music director through the 2025–2026 season. [15] Payare first guest-conducted the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) in 2018. He returned as a guest conductor of the OSM ...
While head of the Bern Symphony, he also conducted the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico from 1973 to 1975, and Sweden's Gothenburg Symphony from 1975 to 1978. Dutoit was principal guest conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra in the early 1980s. [6] In 1977, Dutoit became the artistic director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM).
Montreal: Montreal Symphony Orchestra: Rafael Payare: Venezuelan Ottawa: National Arts Centre Orchestra: Alexander Shelley: British Quebec City: Les Violons du Roy: Jonathan Cohen: British Quebec City: Orchestre symphonique de Québec: Clemens Schuldt: German Regina, Saskatchewan: Regina Symphony Orchestra: Gordon Gerrard: Canadian Saskatoon ...
In 2006, Nagano became both the music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) and GMD of the Bavarian State Opera. His contract with the Bavarian State Opera did not allow him to be the music director of another opera company. [14] He concluded his Bavarian State Opera tenure in 2013. [15]
In 1960, with the help of Charles Munch, Mehta became the chief conductor and Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, a post he held until 1967. By 1961, he had already conducted the Vienna, Berlin and Israel Philharmonic orchestras. [7] In 1962, he took the Montreal Symphony on a concert tour to Russia, Paris and Vienna.
Hailed as a "young titan" by the Montreal Gazette after conducting the Montreal Symphony in Bartok’s Bluebeard's Castle and Schoenberg's Erwartung, Gregory Vajda has fast become one of the most sought-after conductors on the international scene.