Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

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director

Gabriel Chmura

 

Born in Poland, Gabriel Chmura grew up in Israel , where he studied piano and composition at the Music Academy of Tel Aviv. He then studied conducting with Pierre Dervaux in Paris, Hans Swarowsky in Vienna and with Franco Ferrara in Siena. In 1971 he was the first prize winner in the Herbert von Karajan Competition in Berlin, as well as the Gold Medal at the Cantelli Competition of Milano’s La Scala. Mr. Chmura was appointed Music Director of the opera house in Aachen, Germany, in 1974 and retained this position until his Bochum appointment in 1983, which he kept until 1987, when he was appointed Music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. Gabriel Chmura then became the Music Director of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Katowice. He made his Munich debut in 1974 with Otello. Further he conducted a highly successful Samson et Dalila in Barcelona, a critically acclaimed Werther at the Paris Opera and Coq d’O at the Châtelet Theatre, Paris. With the National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada he completed the “Da Ponte Cycle” (Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte). G. Chmura has recorded with the London Symphony for DGG, and with the Munich and the Berlin Radio Orchestras for CBS. Schubert’s Lazarus with the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Hermann Prey and Edith Mathis on the Orfeo label received the “Grand Prix de Disque Mondial de Montreux”.

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