1<\/span>1<\/span> 1<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n 1<\/span> 1<\/span> .<\/span><\/p>\n .<\/span><\/p>\n David Shalon was the music director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA from 1992 until his tragic death in 2000. He also served as the music director of the Luxemburg Philharmonic Orchestra and as chief guest conductor of the Spanish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra and in 1987-1993 he was the chief conductor of the D\u00fcsseldorf Symphony Orchestra. 1<\/span><\/p>\n 1<\/span><\/p>\n .<\/span><\/p>\n Leon Botstein was music director and principal conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra,IBA, and of the American Symphony Orchestra in New York.\u00a0 He is also the founder and co-artistic director ofthe Bard Music Festival. Since 1975 he has been president of Bard College in New York. 1<\/span> Mr. Botstein is the editor of The Musical Quarterly and the author of numerous articles and books. For his contributions to music he has received the award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Harvard University\u2019s prestigious Centennial Award, as well as the Cross of Honor, First Class from the government of Austria. .<\/span> 1 1<\/span><\/p>\n Major international festivals and opera companies at which Maestro Chaslin has appeared include ones in New York, Berlin, Munich, Leipzig, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Venice, Scotland, and Wales. Chaslin has led many leading orchestras worldwide including all the major Parisian orchestras, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Manchester Hall\u00e9 Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Philharmonia. He also led a complete Ring<\/b> cycle (Wagner) in Hanover.<\/p>\n ,<\/span><\/p>\n Maestro Chaslin was named General Music Director of Germany\u2019s Nationaltheater Mannheim in 2005, where he conducted Wagner operas such as Tristan und Isolde<\/b> and Tannh\u00e4user<\/b>, <\/b>as well as all of Richard Strauss\u2019s major works.<\/p>\n ,<\/span><\/p>\n American-Israeli Steven Sloane was named Music Director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, beginning in the 2020\/21 season, while he continues as Principal Guest Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Malm\u00f6 Opera Sweden, where he will feature in a new production of Tosca in 2019\/20. Gary Bertini 11 Maestro Gary Bertini was the musical director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA, between 1977-1987. Born in 1927 in Brichevo, Bessarabia, then part of Romania, his mother, Bertha, was a biologist and doctor and his father, K.A. Bertini, was a renowned poet, translator and an active Zionist. 1 After surviving deportation during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":80,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"about.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-627","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jso.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jso.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jso.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jso.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jso.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.jso.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17221,"href":"https:\/\/www.jso.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/627\/revisions\/17221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jso.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>Maestro Gary Bertini was the musical director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA, between 1977-1987. Born in 1927 in Brichevo, Bessarabia, then part of Romania, his mother, Bertha, was a biologist and doctor and his father, K.A. Bertini, was a renowned poet, translator and an active Zionist.
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\nAfter surviving deportation during the Second World War, the family immigrated to Palestine, where, at the age of 16, Gary took up the violin. In 1948 he attended the Milan Conservatoire, and then the Tel Aviv College of Music. After his graduation in 1951 he went on to study conducting and composition at the Paris Conservatoire, where he studied with such prominent figures as Nadja Boulanger, Luigi Dallapiccola and Olivier Messiaen.
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\nUpon his return to Israel, Bertini facilitated the establishment of a number of organizations which have shaped the musical landscape in the young country: in 1955 he founded the Rinat Choir, which quickly acquired a wide reputation and became the Israel Chamber Choir; in 1965 he likewise established the Israeli Chamber Ensemble (now the Israeli Chamber Orchestra); in 1978, he created the annual\u00a0 \u201cLiturgica\u201d festival in Jerusalem; he was the artistic adviser of the Israel Festival and Batsheva Dance Company; and from 1994 onwards he was artistic director of the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, a post he still held at his death. During his residency as director the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA, grew from 50 to 90 musicians, and it was largely due to his insistence that the Henry Crown hall was built as the orchestra\u2019s permanent lodging.
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\nBertini\u2019s international career spread globally. He served as music adviser to the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and was the chief conductor of the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was music director of the Frankfurt Opera for three years and since 1998 he was the artistic director of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Bertini was a frequent guest conductor with the world\u2019s leading orchestras and performed steadily at the most prestigious opera centers, including La Scala in Milano and the Bastille Opera in Paris.
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\nBertini was also an important composer, and wrote music for over thirty plays. His enthusiastic support of Israeli music is reflected in recordings of over 20 orchestral works by Israeli composers and likewise by over 20 premi\u00e8res to his name. Bertini is the recipient of several prizes and honorary titles, among them the prestigious Israel Prize (1978).
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\n<\/span><\/p>\nLukas Foss<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
\nBorn in Berlin in 1922 as Lukas Fuchs, he started learning piano and begun composing as early as seven years old. At the age of 11, while he lived in Paris for four years, he studied piano with Lazare L\u00e9vy, as well as composition, orchestration and the flute. At the age of 15 the family relocated to the USA, and the young Lukas enrolled to Curtis Institute. During the summers of the following years he took lessons in conducting with Koussevitzky at the Berkshire Music Center and, as a special student at Yale University, composition with Hindemith (1939\u201340).<\/p>\n
\nFoss\u2019 talent shown at a very early age both as a pianist and composer. In 1944 he won wide acclaim for the cantata The Prairie which received the New York Music Critics\u2019 Circle Award. That year Foss became pianist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A position he retained until 1950. In 1951 he further established his reputation when he appeared as soloist the premi\u00e8re of his Piano Concerto no.2 in Venice. After receiving Fellowships from the Guggenheim fund, the American Academy in Rome and a Fulbright grant, Foss was appointed professor of music (composition and conducting) at UCLA in 1953, where he could utilize his capacity for facilitating various innovative platforms, founding the Improvisation Chamber Ensemble and directing 12 \u2018marathon\u2019 thematic concerts at the Ojai Festival with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
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\nPersistent in his quest to communicate new and exciting music to the audience, Foss was to conduct such concerts throughout the various stations in his career, which included, in the following years: conducting and directing of the Philharmonic Orchestra in Buffalo, where he also founded the Center for Creative and Performing Arts; serving as conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonia (which later became the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra) and from 1972 to 1976 serving as conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA; establishing Meet the Moderns a series of new music concerts in Brooklynwhich included discussions with composers; directing the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; and appearing as guest conductor with many orchestras in the USA and Europe, as well as lecturing widely at colleges and universities across the USA.
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\nFoss is known for his compositions in as much as his achievements as a conductor, having completed four symphonies, four operas, including\u00a0The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County\u00a0<\/b>on the story by Mark Twain, concerti for oboe, for piano, for flute and orchestra and four string quartets. Foss, who was always curious and innovative, composed visionary works that incorporateed improvisation and composition, including\u00a0Time Cycle\u00a0<\/b>for soprano and orchestra which received the New York Music Critics\u2019 Circle Award of 1961, and even experimented with electronics and with minimalism. Yet in his later works he self professedly strove \u2018to be as crazy as I was in my avant-garde music and yet tonal\u201d, and created works such as his Symphony No. 3,Symphony Of Sorrows<\/b>, works which are sincere, imbued with overwhelming sentiment.<\/p>\nDavid Shalon (1950-2000)<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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\nShalon was born in Tel Aviv and studied the violin with Rami Shavalov and Aliza Fenibash, and studied French horn with Yaakov Mishori. His early steps in conducting were taken under the guidance of Noam Sheriff, and were subsequently followed in Vienna under the tutelage of famed conducting professor Hans Swarovski. While in Vienna, Shalon was invited by Leonard Bernstein to serve as the Maestro\u2019s assistant at the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. After Shalon made his debuts with both the Vienna Symphony and The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1980 he has made numerous appearances with the world\u2019s most prestigious orchestras, including the philharmonic orchestras of Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm and London, The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, the orchestras of cities such as Leipzig, Huston and San Francisco, The orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, The Gewandhaus Orchestra and many others. In addition, he has conducted Opera productions at the Opera houses of Vienna, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv and others. In his last years Shalon served as the conductor of the Young German Philharmonic Orchestra.
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\nDavid Shalon has premi\u00e8red many new works by Israeli composers, as well by composers such as Henze, Gounod and Penderecki. The greatest soloists of our generation have appeared under his baton, most notably Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Steven Isserlis, Gideon Kramer, Heinrich Schiff, Tabea Zimmermann, Radu Lupo and Victoria de los \u00c1ngeles. Shalon has recorded a number of albums, among which were two albums recorded with Tabea Zimmerman and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA: an award winning CD featuring the Viola concertos of Bart\u00f3k and Hindemith and an additional CD featuring the viola concerti of Schnittke and Kopytman. Shalon passed away on September 15th, 2000, in the midst of a concert tour in Japan. with his wife Tabea and their son Yuval by his side.
\n<\/span><\/p>\nLeon Botstein, Conductor Laurate<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
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\nA recording of Paul Dukas\u2019 opera\u00a0Ariane et Barbebleue\u00a0<\/b>with the BBC Symphony was recently released by Telarc. Mr. Botstein also recently conducted the BBC Symphony in a gala concert on Armistice Day at the Royal Albert Hall of World Requiem\u00a0<\/b>(Fould) with a live recording from Chandos. in 2007, he led the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in a tour of the U.S. West Coast (following 2006\u2019s triumphant tour of the East Coast). Later that year he triumphantly led the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra at the opening concert of the Bach Leipzig Festival with a performance of Mendelssohn\u2019s Elijah<\/b>, honoring the composer\u2019s 200th birthday.<\/p>\n
\nIn addition to a demanding schedule as a guest conductor, Mr. Botstein had also made a number of prestigious recordings of works by Chausson, Copland, Sessions, Perle, Dohn\u00e1nyi, Liszt, Bruckner, Bart\u00f3k, Hartmann, Reger, Gli\u00e8re, and Szymanowski for such labels as Telarc, New World Records, Bridge, Koch, and Arabeseque. With the American Symphony Orchestra he has recorded live performances of two operas by Richard Strauss: Die \u00e4gyptische Helena<\/b>\u00a0with Deborah Voigt and\u00a0Die Liebe der Danae<\/b>\u00a0with Lauren Flanigan. His recording with the London Symphony Orchestra of Gavriil Popov\u2019s epic Symphony No.1 and Shostakovich\u2019s Theme and Variations, Op. 3, received a Grammy nomination in the category of Best Orchestral Performance. Among the orchestras with which he has performed are the BBC Symphony, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, NDR-Hamburg, NDR-Hannover, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Teatro Real in Madrid.<\/p>\n
\n1<\/span><\/p>\nFr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chaslin<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\nMaestro Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chaslin was the Music Director of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra twice: his first tenure as the Chief Conductor of the orchestra from 1999 to 2002 and his second between 2011-2019. Conductor, pianist, composer and author, Chaslin was born in Paris and was educated at the Paris Conservatoire and at the Salzburg Mozarteum. He began his conducting career in 1989 as assistant to Daniel Barenboim in Paris and Bayreuth. In 1991 he became Pierre Boulez\u2019s assistant at the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>In 2010 Maestro Chaslin began a three year service as Music Director of the Santa Fe Opera. He made his debut there in 2009, conducting La Traviata <\/b>(Verdi) and has recently opened the 2011 season with Faust<\/b> (Gounod). Chaslin made his international d\u00e9but in 1993 at Austria\u2019s Bregenz Festival, where he conducted for four seasons and collaborated with David Pountney on notable productions of Nabucco<\/b> (Verdi) and Fidelio<\/b> (Beethoven). He was a Resident Conductor at the Vienna State Opera starting in 1997, conducting more than 110 performances of major repertory. He also served as Music Director at Rouen Opera for three years.<\/p>\n,<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n
Steven Sloane<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\nMaestro Sloane is a visionary whose creative concepts and outstanding artistic merits have garnered respect in artistic circles, as well as in the realm of cultural politics. A student of Eugene Ormandy, Franco Ferrara and Gary Bertini, he quickly set off for an international career and served as Music Director of the Spoleto Festival USA, of Opera North in Leeds, of the American Composers Orchestra, as Principal Conductor of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, as well as Artistic Director of the Cultural Capital of Europe Ruhr.2010. Steven Sloane is a frequent guest with prestigious orchestras, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra London, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orquestra Sinf\u00f4nica do Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
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\nAs the long-term General Music Director of the Bochum Symphony, which he transformed into one of Germany\u2019s leading orchestras, Steven Sloane was instrumental in the building and realization of the orchestra\u2019s own music centre, the Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr, he inaugurated the hall in 2016 to international acclaim. Current highlights with the Bochum Symphony include a Ligeti\u00a0Requiem\u00a0<\/strong>at the RuhrTriennale Festival 2019, as well as the German Premi\u00e8re of David Lang’s new opera\u00a0Prisoner of the state\u00a0in May 2020, co-commissioned with the New York Philharmonic, Rotterdam’s De Doelen, London\u2019s Barbican Centre, Barcelona\u2019s l\u2019Auditori, Bruges\u2019s Concertgebouw and Malm\u00f6 Opera.
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\nA sought-after opera conductor, Steven Sloane\u2019s engagements have taken him to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, where he performed Le Nozze di Figaro<\/strong> (Mozart), the Los Angeles Opera, where he conducted Grendel <\/strong>(Elliot Goldenthal), the San Francisco Opera, where he led a production of Bonesetter\u2019s Daughter<\/strong> (Stewart Wallace), the Royal Danish Opera, where he conducted Madama Butterfly<\/strong> (Puccini), the Houston Grand Opera, where he performed The Makropulos Case<\/strong> (Jan\u00e1\u010dek) and Die\u00a0Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Mozart), the Welsh National Opera, where he conducted Iphigenie en Tauride<\/strong> (Gluck), the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he conducted The Love for Three Oranges<\/strong> (Prokofiev), the Stuttgart Opera, where he presided over a production of Macbeth<\/strong> (Verdi), the Israeli Opera, where he performed The Pearl Fishers<\/strong> (Bizet), the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Gen\u00e8ve, where he led a production of A Midsummer\u2019s Night Dream<\/strong> (Britten) as well as to many festivals worldwide, conducting Salome <\/strong>(R. Strauss) in Hong Kong, Katja Kabanova<\/strong> (Jan\u00e1\u010dek) in Santa Fe, Genoveva<\/strong> (Schumann) in Edinburgh, Neither <\/strong>(Morton Feldman) in Salzburg, Die Soldaten<\/strong> (Bernd Alois Zimmermann) at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York and Anna Nicole<\/strong> (Mark-Antony Turnage) at the NYC Opera. Opera appearances included the outstanding Berlin premi\u00e8re of Medea <\/strong>(Aribert Reimann) at the Komische Oper Berlin, Adriana Lecouvreur <\/strong>(Francesco Cilea) at the Frankfurt Opera, Der fliegende\u00a0Holl\u00e4nder<\/strong> (Wagner) at Malm\u00f6 Opera and\u00a0Salome <\/strong>(R. Strauss) at the Spoleto Festival USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"