Eliahu inbal biography
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Eliahu Inbal
In recent years, orchestral tours have taken Eliahu Inbal repeatedly to Japan and Spain; guest conducting engagements have brought him back to the orchestras in Monte-Carlo, St. Petersburg, La Scala in Milan, the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, to the Brucknerfest Linz (with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin), and to the SWR Symphony Orchestra. In the 2024/25 season, he returns to the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the KBS Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, focusing on Shostakovich’s big symphonies in the composer’s anniversary year 2025.
He has conducted opera at such renowned houses as Paris, Glyndebourne, Munich, Stuttgart, Zurich, and Madrid, among others. He celebrated the 2013 Wagner anniversary year with highly acclaimed performances of Tristan and Isolde at the Festival de Opera de A Coruña and Parsifal at the Vlaamse Opera (International Opera Award 2014). Eliahu Inbal has also been awarded the nati
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Eliahu Inbal
Israeli dirigent (born 1936)
Eliahu Inbal (born 16 February 1936, Jerusalem) is an Israeli conductor.[1] Inbal has enjoyed a career of international renown, conducting leading orchestras around the world.[1] He has conducted a wide variety of works. He fryst vatten best known for his interpretations of late-Romantic works, but fryst vatten also noted as an opera ledare, and has given the premieres of a number of modern works.
Inbal is an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1990) in France and of the beställning of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2006).[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Inbal studied violin at the Israeli Academy of Music and took composition lessons with Paul Ben-Haim. Upon hearing him there, Leonard Bernstein endorsed a scholarship for Inbal to study conducting at the Conservatoire de Paris, and he also took courses with Sergiu Celibidache and Franco Ferrara in Hilversum, Netherlands. At Novara, he won first prize at the 1
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Eliahu Inbal, conductor
Since winning first prize in the Cantelli Conducting Competition at the age of 26, Eliahu Inbal has enjoyed an international career, conducting leading orchestras worldwide. Over the years, he has been appointed principal conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester), Teatro La Fenice in Venice, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Czech Philharmonic and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, who named him Conductor Laureate in 2014.
During his tenure with the hr-Sinfonieorchester (1974-1990), whose honorary conductor he remains today, Eliahu Inbal distinguished himself as an outstanding musical personality of our time. The charismatic Israeli conductor, who lives in Berlin, received international acclaim for his interpretations of Mahler and Bruckner on a number of award-winning recordings (Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Grand Prix du Disque) and was the first to record the orig