Jaap van Zweden (Chief Conductor)
In 1995, after sixteen years of success as a violin soloist and concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden embarked on his career as a conductor. He has been a guest conductor with orchestras such as the Orchestre National de France, the Münchner Philharmoniker, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-fields, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Saint Petersburg and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
Jaap van Zweden was Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and the Residentie Orchestra. Since 2005 he is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. His recent recordings with this orchestra of Bruckner symphonies on the Octavia label received highly favourable reviews.
Opera
Besides his work on the concert stage, Jaap van Zweden is also active as an opera conductor. With the Nationale Reisopera he conducted Beethoven’s Fidelio, Verdi’s La traviata, and at the Nederlandse Opera he conducted Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. In concertante form, he conducted Barber’s Vanessa, Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni, I pagliacci by Leoncavallo, Wagner’s Lohengrin and Don Quixote by Massenet.
Jaap van Zweden is Chief Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and from 2008 he also serves as Chief Conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. His recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic was released in 2008.
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