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Né à Paris de parents américains, il a passé ses jeunes années à Londres et Washington. Diplômé du Harvard College, il a étudié le piano avec Leon Fleisher, la composition avec George Crumb et Olivier Messiaen, et la direction d’orchestre avec Charles Bruck. Ces dix dernières années, il s’est pleinement engagé dans l’éducation musicale, enseignant la direction d’orchestre au New England Conservatory of Music de Boston.
Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn and jazz guitarist John Scofield. A three-time Grammy Award nominee, Wolff won the 2001 Cannes Classical Award. Born in Paris to American parents, he spent his early years in London and Washington. He graduated from Harvard College, studied piano with Leon Fleisher, composition with George Crumb and Olivier Messiaen, and conducting with Charles Bruck. In the last ten years, he has been deeply involved in music education, E Hugh Wolff has performed with all teaching conducting at the New England the major North American orchestras, inclu- Conservatory of Music in Boston. ding those of Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and Montreal. He is frequently in demand in Europe and is regularly invited to conduct in Asia and Australia. Hugh Wolff was principal conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony from 1997 to 2006 and has been the Belgian National Orchestra’s musical director since N Het Belgian National Orchestra, tot September 2017. Together, they have toured Europe, China and Japan and, voor kort bekend als het Nationaal Orkest notably, performed at the Salzburg Festival. van België, werd opgericht in 1936. Het From 1998 to 2000, he was the principal orkest is de geprivilegieerde partner van conductor then the musical director BOZAR. Van 2012 tot 2017 stond het onder of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, de muzikale leiding van Andrey Boreyko, with which he has recorded extensively die vorig seizoen opgevolgd werd door and toured the US, Europe and the Far de Amerikaanse dirigent Hugh Wolff. Het East. His interests range from Baroque Belgian National Orchestra treedt op met to creating of new works. He began his solisten van wereldformaat als Vadim professional career as associate conductor Repin, Gidon Kremer, Boris Berezovsky en of the National Symphony Orchestra in Rolando Villazón en daarnaast ook met Washington D.C. which, at the time, was jong talent. Verder investeert het Belgian directed by Mstislav Rostropovich. Hugh National Orchestra in de toekomstige Wolff has an extensive discography of generatie luisteraars en deinst het niet terug more than 50 recordings, including the voor vernieuwende projecten, zoals met complete Beethoven symphonies and poprock-artiest Ozark Henry. Dit seizoen collaborations with Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, treedt het orkest op met solisten als Vilde
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