lundi 15 juin 2015

INDIA - Music

Zubin Mehta

 
Zubin Mehta was born into a family in Bombay on April 29
th, 1936. His father was a violinist called Mehli Mehta. Zubin first wanted to make medicine studies, but after two semesters on this way, he changed direction and studied music in Vienna in a school called Wierner Musikakademie. In 1958, he made, in the same city, his debut as a conductor. The same year he won the International Conducting Competition in Liverpool, leading to his appointment as assistant conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Zubin Mehta soon became in charge of an symphonic orchestra when he was appointed music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in 1960, a position he held until 1967. He then held the same position at the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1962 to 1978 and the New York Philharmonic from 1978 to 1991, becoming with this job the longest lasting leader in the history of this orchestra: thirteen years. He conducted more than 1,000 concerts. It was under his leadership that was interpreted in 1978 Vladimir Horowitz's third concerto for piano and orchestra (Op. 30) by Sergei Rachmaninoff. He has also led the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra since 1968, first as a music consultant and then became artistic director for life in 1981. From 1993 to 2006 he was also the artistic director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.


In June 1994, the Symphony Orchestra and Choir of Sarajevo interpreted Mozart's Requiem under the baton of Zubin Mehta in the ruins of the National Library in Sarajevo. The funds raised on this occasion went to the victims of the Yugoslav conflict. On the 29th of August 1999, he led the Second Symphony "Resurrection" by Mahler, near the Buchenwald concentration camp in the German city of Weimar, the Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, playing together. He toured his country and his city of origin, India and Mumbai, in 1984 with the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York, then in November-December 1994, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, with soloists Itzhak Perlman and Gil Shaham. He was appointed Honorary Doctor of the Hebrew University, the University of Tel Aviv and the Weizmann Institute.
On 1 January 1990, 1995, 1998, 2007 and 2015, he had the honor of leading the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra during the traditional New Year's Concert.
Zubin Mehta is also an honorary member of the Club of Budapest. Since 1969, he has been married to Nancy Kovack.

Samuel.

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