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Philippe ENTREMONT |
Officer of the French Legion of Honor, Commander or the Order of Merit, Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, Philippe Entremont has also been awarded the Arts and Sciences Cross of honor of Austria. He is President of the Bel’Arte Foundation of Brussels and is Director of the famed American Conservatory of Fontainebleau, a post formerly held by the legendary Nadia Boulanger.
The exceptional career of Philippe Entremont began when he was 18 years old, coming to international attention by having a great success in New York’s Carnegie Hall, playing Jolivet’s piano concerto and Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.1. Since then, he has pursued a top international career as a pianist, then for the last 30 years also on the podium.
He was Music Director of the New Orleans Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of the Denver Symphony and Chief conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra until 2002. After having served as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, he is now Conductor Laureate for Life. He was also Music Director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and is now their Conductor Laureate.
His renown as an orchestral conductor and his experience at consistently working to develop orchestras’ artistic potential have brought him numerous international tours, playing before full houses : ten tours in the US, seven in Japan with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, a tour of eleven concerts with the Orquestra de Cadaques in capitals of countries in Asia, as well as a recent tour in Switzerland and Germany conducting the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra. As head of the Munich Symphony Orchestra he conducted from the keyboard eleven concerts in Spain in May 2005, 28 concerts in the US in October/November 2005, and will conduct 12 concerts in the UK in November 2006.
In 1997 he founded the biennial Santo Domingo Music Festival, of which he is Artistic Director and Conductor of the Festival Orchestra. In October 2004 Philippe Entremont was named Principal Guest Conductor and in 2006, Principal Conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra, which he conducts on international tours, as well as throughout Germany. He is also Principal Guest Conductor of the Orquestra de Cadaques. In July 2004 he conducted the first concerts of the new European orchestra “Spirit of Europe”, based in Austria and composed of musicians from all over Europe. In 2006, in connection with the “Mozart Year,” he will be the conductor in charge of the Super World Orchestra, based in Tokyo.
Philippe Entremont has directed
the greatest symphony orchestras of Europe, Asia and America : Philadelphia,
San Francisco, Detroit, Minnesota, Seattle, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas,
Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Montreal, The Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields,
the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orquesta Nacional de Espagna, the
Academy of Santa Cecilia of Rome, l’Orchestre National de France,
the symphony and philharmonic orchestras of Göteborg, Stockholm,
Oslo and Warsaw, the NHK of Tokyo, the KBS Orchestra of Seoul, the Vienna
Symphony and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bergen, to name a few. He has
worked with the world’s greatest soloists, both instrumental and
vocal.