- Eliahu Inbal
Eliahu Inbal (born
February 16 ,1936 ,Jerusalem ) is anIsrael i conductor.Inbal studied
violin at theIsraeli Academy of Music and took composition lessons withPaul Ben-Haim . Upon hearing him there,Leonard Bernstein endorsed a scholarship for Inbal to study conducting at theConservatoire de Paris , and he also took courses withSergiu Celibidache andFranco Ferrara inHilversum ,Netherlands . AtNovara , he won first prize at the 1963Guido Cantelli conducting competition.Inbal made most of his early appearances in
Italy , but a successful British debut in 1965 with theLondon Philharmonic led to a number of other engagements with British orchestras. He subsequently worked with a number of orchestras throughout Europe and in America, and eventually took jointBritish citizenship .From 1974 to 1990, he was the principal conductor of the
hr-Sinfonieorchester inFrankfurt . With them, he was the first to record the original versions of several ofAnton Bruckner 's symphonies, for which he won the "Jahrespreis der deutschen Schallplatten-Kritik". He also recorded a complete cycle of the symphonies ofGustav Mahler andShostakovich . From 1984 to 1989, he was chief conductor atLa Fenice inVenice . He was appointed music director of La Fenice in January, 2007.He is scheduled to assume to post of principal conductor of the
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra from 2008 to 2011. In February 2008, theCzech Philharmonic announced the appointment of Inbal as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2009-2010 season. [cite news | url=http://www.radio.cz/en/issue/101182 | title=Eliahu Inbal - the new chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic | work=Radio Praha | author=Rosie Johnston | date=2008-02-22 | accessdate=2008-02-26]Inbal has conducted a wide variety of works. He is best known for his interpretations of late-Romantic works, but is also noted as an
opera conductor, and has given the premieres of a number of modern works.References
External links
* [http://www.hughkaylor.com/Inbal/ Eliahu Inbal biography]
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