Progetto Martha Argerich
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Charles Dutoit
Dutoit was born in Lausanne and graduated from the Geneva Conservatory where he won first prize in conducting. In his younger days, he frequently attended Ansermet's reharsals and had a personal acquaintance with him. He also studied with Charles Münch a Tanglewood.. Dutoit began his professional music career in 1957 as a viola player with various orchestras across Europe and South America. After two years, he returned to Switzerland to concentrate on conducting. From 1959 he was a guest conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne. After this, he was the conductor for Radio Zurich until 1967, when he took over the Bern Symphony Orchestra from Paul Klecki, where he stayed for eleven years.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 1980's. In 1977 he became the Artistic Director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM). During his 25 years with the Montreal Symphony, he turned it into the finest orchestra in Canada and one of the best in the world. He has earned more than 40 international awards and distinctions, including two Grammy Awards (USA), several Juno Awards (Canada), the Grand Prix du Président de la République (France), the Prix Mondial du Disque (Montreux, Switzerland), the Amsterdam Edison Award, the Japan Record Academy Award, and the German Music Critics’ Award. He and the OSM made many recordings for the Decca/London label. Since 1990, he has been the artistic director and principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra's summer festival in Saratoga Springs, and of the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. From 1991 to 2001, Dutoit was Music Director of the Orchestre National de France. In 1996 he was appointed principal conductor of Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra. In February 2007, he was named chief conductor and artistic adviser of The Philadelphia Orchestra. In April 2007, Dutoit was named principal conductor and artistic director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as of 2009.
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