Moshe Atzmon - Conductor
“Time and again he elicited from the musicians of the Radio Philharmonic moments of unusual and surprising nuance, so that at times one felt one was hearing the all too familiar “Pastoral” as if for the first time. There were well-deserved bravos for Atzmon’s compelling but completely unpretentious conducting.” (NDR Radiophilharmonie)
Moshe Atzmon is well-known both in the opera house and on the concert platform.
He was General Music Director of Dortmund Opera for several years and has
conducted at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburg State Opera, Basel State
Opera, Istanbul Opera and Royal Danish Opera amongst others.
Moshe Atzmon has been Chief Conductor of the NDR Sinfonieorchester in Hamburg,
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya
Philharmonic Orchestra (he is now their Conductor Laureate), Basel Orchestra
Society, Aalborg Symphony Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the KBS
Philharmonic Orchestra in Seoul and Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestre
de Bretagne.
Moshe Atzmon has conducted in all the important music centres of the world
working with many of the great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic,
Vienna Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic and the major London Orchestras.
He has also recently returned to the NHK Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo and
Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi of Milan.
Moshe Atzmon was born in Hungary where he began his musical education in
Budapest. When he was thirteen his family emigrated to Israel where he continued
at the Academies of Music in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem studying the cello,
horn, conducting and composition. After graduating he became a professional
horn player before continuing his conducting studies in 1960 at London’s
Guildhall School of Music and working with the late Antal Dorati. Three
years later he took second prize at the Mitropoulos Conducting Competition
in New York followed by the Leonard Bernstein Prize at Tanglewood and in
1964 he was awarded First Prize at the Liverpool International Conducting
Competition.
Moshe Atzmon has made many recordings, principally for Deutsche Grammophon,
Decca, EMI and BIS.
March 2009
Discography
| COMPOSER | Work | Label / CD |
|---|---|---|
| ADDINSELL | Warsaw Concerto Cristina Ortiz Royal Philharmonic Orchestra |
PGD London Classics 460 250 |
| DORATI | Night Music, Sette Pezzi, American Serenade Aalborg Symphony Orchestra |
BIS CD-1099 |
| HAYDN | Creation | BIS CD - 493 |
| HRISTIC | The Legend of Ohrid | cpo 999 582 - 2 |
| PETTERSSON | Symphony No. 5 Malmo Symphony Orchestra |
BIS 480 |
| MOZART | Symphony No. 41 | Live Notes |
| SCHUMANN | Symphony No. 3 Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra |
wwcc7260 |
| RACHMANINOV | Piano Concerto No. 2 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini New Philharmonia Orchestra |
EMI |
| RUZICKA | Befragung North Germany Radio Symphony Orchestra |
cpo 999 053 2 |
| TCHAIKOVSKY | Capriccio Italien. Op. 45 Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra |
Denon 8084 |
| KOPPEL | Symphony Nos. 6 & 7 Aalborg Symphony Orchestra |
dacapo 8224135 |