Yoko takebe
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Alan Gilbert (conductor)
American conductor and violinist
Alan Gilbert (born February 23, 1967) is an American conductor and violinist. He is Principal Conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Music Director of Royal Swedish Opera. He was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic from 2009 to 2017.[1][2]
Early years
Gilbert was born in New York City.[3][4] He is the son of two New York Philharmonic violinists, Michael Gilbert and Yoko Takebe, both now retired from the orchestra. Growing up in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Gilbert attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale, where he was a top student. As a youth, he learned the violin, viola, and piano. His sister, Jennifer Gilbert, also studied violin, and became a professional violinist.[5]
In the 1980s, Gilbert studied music at Harvard University, where he was the music director of the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra in 1988–89.[6] While in Boston, Gilbert also studied with violinist Masuko Ushioda at the New England Conse
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He played the violin and violin as a child and was initially taught by his parents. After school, he studied composition at Harvard and violin at the New England Conservatory of Music. Alan Gilbert graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and the Juilliard School of Music. First he was a violin and viola player in the Philadelphia Orchestra for two years. Then, in 1993, he became second concertmaster of the Santa Fé Opera Orchestra. Back in 1994, he won the Concours de Genève in the "Orchestra Conducting" category at the international music competition for piano, singing and other musical instruments in Geneva. From 1995 to 1997 he was assistant conductor of the symphony orchestra in Cleveland, Ohio, under the German Christoph von Dohnányi. In 2000 Alan Gilbert became chief conductor and artistic advisor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.
From then on he had a lightning career, especially as a guest conductor. The following year he played for the first time with the New York Philharmonic, which his mother also supported musically. During this tim
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Grammy Award-winning conductor Alan Gilbert has been Chief Conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra since fall 2019 and Music Director of the Royal Swedish Opera since spring 2021. In Hamburg, where his contract was extended through the 2028-29 season, his adventurous programming, thought-provoking festivals, and regular online streaming are taking the orchestra to new artistic heights. Gilbert also holds positions as Principal Guest Conductor of Japan’s Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and Conductor Laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. The first native New Yorker to serve as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, he concluded his transformative eight-year tenure in the post in 2017.
In addition to his appointments, Gilbert maintains a major international presence, making guest appearances with orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He has conducted operatic
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