Gustavo Dudamel
Born | January 26, 1981 |
Hometown | Barquisimeto, Venezuela |
Net worth | $8 million |
Spouse | Eloísa Maturén (m 2006 - 2015) , María Valverde (m 2017 - present) |
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Conductor Dudamel to lead New York Philharmonic from 2026
- Acclaimed conductor Gustavo Dudamel will lead the New York Philharmonic for five years from 2026, the orchestra announced Tuesday.Dudamel will take on the role of music director designate in the 2025–26 season before adopting the lead role in season 2026-27.
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A new chapter: Gustavo Dudamel's story at the Paris Opera begins.
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Billie Eilish to premiere cinematic concert experience on Disney Plus
Billie Eilish is set to premiere her cinematic concert experience exclusively on Disney Plus on September 3, which will feature every song on her 'Happier than Ever' album in sequential order.
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Mahler: Symphonies 1-10 review – a sumptuous Berlin Phil moves from the glib to the sublime
Mahler: Symphonies 1-10 review – a sumptuous Berlin Phil moves from the glib to the sublime. Berlin Philharmonic/Harding/Nelsons/ Dudamel/Nézet-Séguin/Petrenko/Rattle/ Haitink/Abbado(Berliner Philharmoniker, 10 CDs & 4 Blu-ray Discs, or download)This mammoth undertaking, of all of Mahler’s symphonies with different conductors over the last decade, brings variable musical results
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Can a trippy VR film bring classical music to a new generation?
Can a trippy VR film bring classical music to a new generation?Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel opens virtual reality film Symphony in Madrid
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And the bands played on: the best classical releases of 2020
And the bands played on: the best classical releases of 2020. Period group Les Siècles, young composer Clara Ianotta and a new Peter Grimes from Edward Gardner and Stuart Skelton are among our highlights from a year in which the live music might have stopped but the recording industry continued undimmed
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Ives: Complete Symphonies review – Dudamel captures the rapture of an iconoclast
Ives: Complete Symphonies review – Dudamel captures the rapture of an iconoclastLos Angeles PO/Gustavo Dudamel (Deutsche Grammophon, digital download only) The conductor and his orchestra express the transcendental immensity of Ives, especially in a glorious Fourth Symphony
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Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Orphée review – glitz meets gravitas
Los Angeles Philharmonic/Dudamel; Orphée review – glitz meets gravitas. Barbican; Coliseum, LondonThe combined forces of the LA Phil, Gustavo Dudamel and Yuja Wang delivered glittering virtuosity. And ENO gets it right at last
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LA Philharmonic/Dudamel/Wang review – crisp and vivid detail
LA Philharmonic/Dudamel/Wang review – crisp and vivid detailBarbican, London Yuja Wang brought her virtuosity to Adams’s diabolical piano concerto, and a thunderous Rite of Spring showed the west coast orchestra at its bestFaultless fingers ... Yuja Wang plays John Adams’s Must the Devil Have All The Good Tunes? Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian
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LA Philharmonic/Dudamel review: Intoxicating sounds of La-la land
The Los Angeles Philharmonic has a century-long tradition of virtuoso music-making and it opened its brief Barbican residency as if determined to prove that it remains one of the world’s most intoxicating orchestras.Its Venezuelan conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, started with something Latin American, Alberto Ginastera’s Variaciones concertantes, predominantly exuberant but suffused with an expansive lyricism, most radiantly in a series of vivid instrumental solos.
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The world's most prestigious opera houses are short of cash - could sponsorship from luxury brands be the answer?
As the recent news about Milan’s famed La Scala having to reject a €15million sponsorship deal with the Saudi government demonstrates, funding the arts is not for the faint-hearted.
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Gustavo Dudamel wins the Gish Prize, a top arts honor
Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Gustavo Dudamel has been named the recipient of a top arts prize worth approximately $250,000 for his craft and music education advocacy. The 37-year-old Venezuelan conductor will receive the 25th annual Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize during a ceremony Dec. 4 at New York's Lincoln Center. Architect Frank Gehry, a previous Gish Prize recipient, will be among those who speak at the ceremony.
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