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Jaap van Zweden Performance Schedule USA
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Dutch conductor Jaap Van Zweden will be conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Fri, Mar 3 - Thu, Nov 30 2017
Jaap van Zweden has risen rapidly in the past decade to become one of today’s most sought-after conductors. On January 27, 2016, the New York Philharmonic announced that Jaap van Zweden will be their new Music Director starting with the 2018/19 season, and will act as Music Director Designate during 2017/18. He has been Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 2008, holding the Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship, and will continue in that role through the 2017/18 season, after which he becomes Conductor Laureate. The performances announced here are part of the 2016/2017 season.
Performance Schedule
About Jaap van Zweden
Acclaimed for superb performances and orchestra-building in Dallas and around the world, Amsterdam-born Jaap van Zweden was appointed at age 19 as the youngest-ever concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. Twenty years later, in 1995, he began his conducting career. Van Zweden remains Honorary Chief Conductor and Conductor Emeritus of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2012, Van Zweden received the Musical America’s Conductor of the Year Award in recognition of his critically acclaimed work with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, as well as for his appearances as guest conductor with other US orchestras. Van Zweden’s guest appearances at the New York Philharmonic have been praised by New York Times critics as “dynamic, all-out performances.”