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Lorin Maazel
| Lorin Maazel during the past thirty years has conducted more than one hundred and thirty orchestras in over four thousand opera and concert performances. He has served as Artistic Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Music Director of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (1965-71), Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra (1972-82), Principle Guest Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra of London (1976-1980), General Manager and Artistic Director of the Vienna State Opera (1982-1984), and Music Director of the Orchestre National de France (1988-1990), as well as being the Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 1988. In September 1993, he assumed the position of Music Director of the renowned Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra of Munich. Maestro Maazel conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the 1994 New Year's concert, telecast to 65 countries. He will again conduct the 1996 New Year's concert. |  |
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The Spring of 1994 included taking London's Philharmonia Orchestra
on a tour to Japan as part of a five-year project. He conducted
the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival in
1994 as well as other major European capitals. In addition, he
also conducted the final concert of the 100th anniversary season
of the Munich Philharmonic in July 1994. Maestro Maazel opened
the Salzburg Festival in 1995 and will do the same in 1996, with
new productions of "Rosenkavalier" and "Elektra",
respectively. As conductor of opera, Lorin Maazel at the age of
thirty, became the first American and youngest conductor in history
to conduct at the Bayreuth Festival. His operatic engagements
have encompassed new productions at the Metropolitan Opera, Paris
Opera, Royal Opera House London, the Vienna State Opera and the
Deutsche Oper Berlin. His long association with the Teatro alla
Scala Milan has led him to conduct ten new productions, including
three season opening premieres. He has also toured Japan and the
form Soviet Union with this theater. Lorin Maazel has given over
20 benefit concerts, for internationally active organisations
such as Unicef, the International Red Cross, the UN High Commission
of Refugees and the Wwf. His discography encompasses over 300
recordings. He is presently completing the recording of all operas
by Puccini. He has recorded the complete symphonic works of Beethoven,
Mahler, Rachmaninov, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. His opera films,
Mozart's "Don Giovanni" directed by Joseph Losey and
Bizet's "Carmen" directed by Francesco Rosi, have broken
new ground in the popularization of opera. Notably among the innumerable
decorations, honorary doctorates and awards for achievement with
which Lorin Maazel has been honoured are the Legion d'Honneur
in France, the Commander's Cross of Merit in Germany and the Commander
of the Lion in Finland. He was named an honorary life member of
the Israel Philharmonic in 1985 when he conducted their 40th anniversary
concert. Lorin Maazel was born in Paris to American parents in
1930. He studied conducting with Vladimir Bakaleinikoff in Pittsburgh,
and, between the ages of nine and fifteen, conducted many of the
great American and Canadian orchestras. At the University of Pittsburgh,
he studied philosophy and literature, concurrently being a member
of the violin section of the Pittsburgh Symphony. Maazel made
his European conducting debut in Italy in 1953. Maazel will continue
to serve as Music Director with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
until 2002. Discography
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