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David Robertson has established himself as one of today's most sought-after American conductors. A passionate and compelling communicator with an extensive orchestral and operatic repertoire, he has forged close relationships with major orchestras around the world through his exhilarating music-making ideas. In fall 2012, Mr. Robertson launched his eighth season as Music Director of the 133-year-old St. Louis Symphony. In January 2014, David Robertson will assume the post of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Sydney Symphony in Australia.
In September 2012, the St. Louis Symphony and David Robertson embarked on a Europe tour, which included participation at London's BBC Proms, at the Berlin and Lucerne Festivals, and culminated at Paris' Salle Pleyel. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff was the featured soloist for this tour, which marked the Symphony's first Europe engagements since 1998 and a premierfor music director David Robertson. In March 2013 Robertson and his orchestra returned to California for their second tour of the season, which included an intensive three day residency at the University of California-Davis and a concert at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, with violinist James Ehnes as soloist. The orchestra further performed at venues in Costa Mesa, Palm Desert and Santa Barbara, with St. Louis Symphony Principal Flute, Mark Sparks, as soloist.
In addition to his current position with the St. Louis Symphony, Mr. Robertson is a frequent guest conductor with major orchestras and opera houses around the world. During the 2012-13 season he appeared with prestigious U.S. orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony, as well as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, and Ensemble Intercontemporain. In past seasons Mr. Robertson has appeared nationally with the Boston and Chicago Symphonies, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, and internationally with the Berlin Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Sydney and Melbourne Symphonies, among others.
With over 45 operas in his repertoire, David Robertson, who returned to The Metropolitan Opera in October 2012 for Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, has appeared on many of the world's most prestigious opera houses including The Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Opéra de Lyon, Bayerische Staatsoper, Théatre du Chatelet, Hamburg State Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and San Francisco Opera.
Born in Santa Monica, California, Mr. Robertson was educated at London's Royal Academy of Music, where he studied horn and composition before turning to orchestral conducting. David Robertson received Columbia University's 2006 Ditson Conductor’s Award, and he and the St. Louis Symphony are recipients of several major awards from ASCAP and the League of American Orchestras, including the 2008-09 Award for Programming of Contemporary Music, and the 2005-06 Morton Gould Award for Innovative Programming. Musical America named Robertson 'Conductor of the Year' for 2000. In 1997, he received the Seaver/National Endowment for the Arts Conductors Award, the premier prize of its kind, given to exceptionally gifted American conductors. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Missouri-St. Louis (2011), Westminster Choir College (2010), Webster University (2009) and Maryville University (2007). In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the most prestigious honorary societies in the United States, and that same year received the Excellence in the Arts award from the St. Louis Arts and Education Council. In 2011, David Robertson was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Founded in 1932 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Sydney Symphony has evolved into one of the world's finest orchestras by the present day. The orchestra is resident at the iconic Sydney Opera House and performs throughout Sydney as well as in New South Wales on a common basis.
The Sydney Symphony's first Chief Conductor was Sir Eugene Goossens, appointed in 1947; he was followed by Nicolai Malko, Dean Dixon, Moshe Atzmon, Willem van Otterloo, Louis Frémaux, Sir Charles Mackerras, Zdeněk Mácal, Stuart Challender, Edo de Waart and Gianluigi Gelmetti. Vladimir Ashkenazy has been the orchestra's principal conductor since 2009. The orchestra's history also boasts collaborations with legendary figures such as George Szell, Sir Thomas Beecham, Otto Klemperer and Igor Stravinsky.
In 1965 the Sydney Symphony conducted its first overseas tour, becoming the first Australian orchestra to perform in both the United Kingdom and in Asia. Since then, tours to Europe, the United States and Asia have earned the orchestra worldwide recognition for its artistic excellence.
The 1965 tour started out with concerts in Manila, Tokyo and Hong Kong before taking the orchestra to London, where it participated in the Commonwealth Arts Festival. A following tour to Europe in 1974 was led by Chief Conductor Willem van Otterloo. In 1988, the year of the Bicentennial Celebrations in Australia, the orchestra visited the United States under the direction of Stuart Challender. Edo de Waart led tours to Japan and Taiwan in 1996 and the United States in 1998. Gianluigi Gelmetti conducted tours to Tokyo and Osaka (2006) as part of Asia Orchestra Week as well as to Italy (2008). Vladimir Ashkenazy took the orchestra on tours to China and Malaysia (2009), several major European summer festivals (2010), and Japan and Korea (2011). Under Ashkenazy's leadership, international touring has become a fixture in the orchestra's annual concert season.
In addition to a busy concert schedule, the Sydney Symphony devotes an accountable amount of time and resources to an award-winning artist education program. This program is crucial in context of the orchestra's commitment to the future of live symphonic music, nurturing audiences and further a participation of young people.
The Sydney Symphony promotes the work of Australian composers through performances, recordings and its commissioning program. Recent premieres have included major works by Ross Edwards, Liza Lim, Lee Bracegirdle, Gordon Kerry and Georges Lentz. The orchestra's recording of music by Brett Dean was released on both the BIS and Sydney Symphony Live labels.
Other releases on the Sydney Symphony Live label, established in 2006, include performances with Alexander Lazarev, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Sir Charles Mackerras and Vladimir Ashkenazy, and the complete Mahler symphonies under Ashkenazy, recorded in 2010 and 2011. The Sydney Symphony has also released recordings of Rachmaninoff and Elgar's orchestral works with Ashkenazy on the Exton/Triton labels, and numerous recordings on the ABC Classics label.
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Dedicated to the staging of epic operas, ballets and dance dramas, the golden Opera House is considered the centerpiece of the NCPA. Its main tone is golden color, which looks glamorous and splendid. In the auditorium are the stalls and three higher levels of balconies, which can seat an audience of 2,207, including the venue of SRO. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/backward/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can slant, and a rising orchestra pit for the triple winds orchestra. All the cutting-edge staging mechanism provides artists with enormous possibilities of creative performance.
Dedicated to the staging of epic operas, ballets and dance dramas, the golden Opera House is considered the centerpiece of the NCPA. Its main tone is golden color, which looks glamorous and splendid. In the auditorium are the stalls and three higher levels of balconies, which can seat an audience of 2,207, including the venue of SRO. It is equipped with a modern stage that can be moved up/down/backward/forward or rotated, a ballet stage that can slant, and a rising orchestra pit for the triple winds orchestra. All the cutting-edge staging mechanism provides artists with enormous possibilities of creative performance.