Edo de Waart is a Leader Dutch, born on June 1st 1941 with Amsterdam.

Biography

He studies the oboe, the piano and the direction with the Academy Sweelinck in Amsterdam where he is graduate in 1962. The following year, it is engaged like hautboïste with the royal Orchestre of Concertgebouw of Amsterdam.

In 1964, at only 23 years, it gains the contest of direction Dimitri Mitropoulos of New York which enables him to become the assistant of Leonard Bernstein with the Philharmonic orchestra of New York. On its return to the Netherlands, it is named assistant of Bernard Haitink in Concertgebouw of Amsterdam.

In 1967, it pousuit its career with Rotterdam before joining the Symphony orchestra of San Francisco in 1975 as invited main leader.

From 1986 to 1995, it directs the Symphony orchestra of Minnesota.

In 1989, it directs the Philharmonic orchestra of the radio of the Netherlands from which he is prize winner chief today.

It joined the Symphony orchestra of Sydney of 1995 to 2004, then becomes artistic director of the Philharmonic orchestra of HongKong. De Waart was also invited to direct the major orchestras throughout the world: Philharmonic orchestra of Berlin, Orchestra of Gewandhaus of Leipzig, Orchestra Philharmonia of London, Royal Philharmonic Orchestrated, Orchestre of the French-speaking Switzerland, Symphony orchestra of Boston, Orchestre of Cleveland, Philharmonic orchestra of Los Angeles or Symphony orchestra of Chicago.

It also directs many operas.

Repertory

Defender of the contemporary repertory, De Waart ensured the first of the opera Nixon in Clouded John Adams or Variations for winds, cords and keyboards of Steve Reich, in particular.

External bonds

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