Gustavo Dudamel

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Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramrez (born 26 January 1981) is a Venezuelan-Spanish conductor and violinist.

He is the music director of Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolvar and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Early life

Dudamel was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, as the son of a trombonist and a voice coach. He studied music from an early age, became involved with El Sistema, Venezuela's most popular musical education service, and picked up the violin at age ten. He began to study composition straight away. José Luis Jiménez was one of his violin teachers at the Jacinto Lara Conservatory. He then moved to José Francisco del Castillo at the Latin-American Violin Academy.

In 1995, Dudamel began researching, first with Rodolfo Saglimbeni and later with José Antonio Abdamel. He was named music director of Orquesta Sinfónico Simón Bolvar, Venezuela's national youth orchestra, in 1999, and has visited many countries. He attended Charles Dutoit's master class in Buenos Aires in 2002 and 2003, and served as an assistant for Simon Rattle in Berlin and Salzburg.

Personal life

Dudamel has been married twice before. Elo Maturén, Caracas, was his first marriage, which took place in 2006. Maturén, who hails from Venezuela, is both a classically trained ballet dancer and a journalist. Martn Dudamel Maturén, a US citizen, was born in April 2011 and his son, Martin Dudamel Maturén, was born 1 April 2011. Dudamel and Maturén divorced in March 2015. In February 2017, Dudamel secretly married Spanish actress Mara Valverde, whom he first encountered in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 2016. In 2018, he became a Spanish citizen.

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Career

Dudamel captured a variety of events, including the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Germany in 2004. His fame began to grow, drawing the attention of conductors like Simon Rattle and Claudio Abbado, who were given invitations to perform the Simón Bollvar Orchestra in Veneite. Dudamel was named principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony in April 2006 for the 2007/2008 season.

In November 2006, Dudamel made his La Scala, Milan, debuting with Don Giovanni. He conducted the Vienna Philharmonic for the first time at the Lucerne Festival on September 10, 2007. He conducted the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra in honor of Pope Benedict XVI's 80th birthday, with Hilary Hahn as solo violinist, alongside many other Catholic dignitaries in the audience on April 16th.

In 2011, he appeared in the documentary Dudamel, Let the Children Play directed by Venezuelan filmmaker Alberto Arvelo.

During the funeral of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in 2013, Dudamel conducted the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra. Dudamel continues to perform with the Simón Bolvar National Youth Orchestra, although he wishes to keep his position. In April 2014, Dudamel returned to conduct with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra as the orchestra's honorary conductor for concerts in the orchestra's home city and on tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy.

Dudamel appeared on both the opening and ending titles for the official motion picture soundtrack and film of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2015. Dudamel and Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) accompanied Coldplay and performed with Chris Martin, Beyoncé, and Bruno Mars at the 2016 Super Bowl.

Dudamel conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in their traditional New Year's Day Concert on January 1, 2017, the youngest guest conductor in history to conduct this performance. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in New York City in December 2018, conducting Verdi's Otello.

In honor of Princeton University Concerts' 125th anniversary, Dudamel served as the 2018–2019 artist-in-residence at Princeton University. Dudamel conducted the Princeton University Orchestra and the Princeton University Glee Club as the culmination of his year-long residence in April 2019. These included cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural panels, chamber concerts featuring musicians from his associated orchestras (the Met, LA, & Berlin), and chamber concerts featuring musicians from his respective orchestras (the Met, Los Angeles, and Berlin).

During the recording sessions for Steven Spielberg's film version of West Side Story, which will be released on December 10, 2021, Dudamel conducted the orchestra during the summer of 2019.

In 2017, Dudamel was the first guest-conducted at the Opéra national de Paris. The Opéra National de Paris announced in April 2021 the appointment of Dudamel as the company's next music director, with a first deal that will start in 2021.

Dudamel made his Los Angeles Philharmonic (LAP) debut at the Hollywood Bowl on September 13, 2005, in a series based on Silvestre Revueltas and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.'s "La Noche de los Mayas" by Silvestre Revueltas and Tchaikovsky's "La Noche de los Mayas). 5. In January 2007, Dudamel performed in "Dances of Galánta" by Zoltán Kodály, the third piano concerto of Sergei Rachmanoff with Yefim Bronfman as soloist, and Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra (the former of which was recorded live and later released by Deutsche Grammophon), and the orchestra was then invited back to conduct the orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The LAP revealed in April 2007 that Dudamel would be its next music director, which will go into operation in the 2009-2010 season. He had been working in Los Angeles for five years, beginning in September 2009. In February 2011, the orchestra announced that Dudamel's contract will continue until the end of the 2018-2019 season. The orchestra announced a new extension of his Los Angeles Philharmonic contract through the 2021–2022 season in March 2015. He was the longest active LAP contract extension in January 2020, and it runs through the 2025-2026 season.

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