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Manfred Honeck was born in Austria and studied music at the Academy of Music in Vienna. An accomplished violinist and violist, he spent more than ten years as a member of the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. It is this experience that has heavily influenced his conducting and has helped give it a distinctive stamp. After several highly successful guest appearances leading the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, he was appointed its ninth Music Director and began his tenure at the start of the 2008/2009 season.
Acclaimed for his interpretations of Wagner and Strauss, as well as for his commitment to contemporary music, Marc Albrecht holds the position of Chief Conductor of both the Netherlands Opera and Netherlands Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestras, and is.a regular guest at Europe’s most prestigious opera houses and orchestras. In the early years of his conducting career, Albrecht spent several seasons at the opera houses of Hamburg and Dresden, and also was appointed personal assistant to Claudio Abbado at the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in Vienna.
Initially a bassoonist, Marc Minkowski began conducting at an early age, notably under the guidance of Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux Memorial School in the United States. At the age of nineteen he founded Les Musiciens du Louvre, an ensemble that was to play an active role in the Baroque revival. Together they explored both the French repertoire (Lully, Rameau, Mondonville, etc.) and Händel (Il trionfo del Tempo, Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Hercules, the Roman motets, and the orchestral music), before going on to tackle Mozart, Rossini, Offenbach, Bizet, and Wagner.
Marc Taddei was appointed Music Director of Orchestra Wellington in 2007. His zest for creating engaging, erudite and innovative programmes, combined with his close audience connection has won for him an unsurpassed public following and continuing critical acclaim. His work in Wellington follows a highly successful tenure as music director of the Christchurch Symphony. Marc frequently conducts every professional orchestra in New Zealand. He regularly works with the national ballet and opera companies and the International Festival of the Arts.
Marco Armiliato, considered one of today’s most respected opera conductors, is a frequent guest in the world’s most prestigious opera houses. Highlights of the 2014-2015 season include returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Aida and La Traviata, Opernhaus Zürich for performances of La Fanciulla del West and La Traviata, Wiener Staatsoper for Tosca, Andrea Chenier, L’elisir d’amore, and Don Carlo, and Deutsche Oper Berlin for Faust. This past season included performances of Tosca, La Sonnambula and Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera, and Madama Butterfly at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
One of the founders and directors of the early music vocal ens Pro Cantione Antiqua.
American conductor Marlon Daniel is one of the foremost exponents of music by comps of African and African American descent in the world. He has been described as "one of the youngest and most prominent pianist/conductors in New York today." (Le Figaro - France Amerique), "a natural and enormous talent." (Chicago Sun-Times) and "fabulous and exceptional" (Pravda - Moscow). He is the winner of the 2009 John and Mary Virginia Foncannon Conducting Award.
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