David Shallon
David Shallon ( Hebrew דויד שלון; * 1950 in Israel ; † September 15, 2000 in Tokyo , Japan ) was an Israeli conductor .
Life
David Shallon learned to play the violin and french horn as a boy. At the Tel Aviv Music Academy he studied conducting with Noam Sheriff and continued his studies in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky , where he met his future wife, the German violist Tabea Zimmermann .
At the invitation of Leonard Bernstein he became his assistant, conducted Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1980 and has since performed with world-famous soloists, including Gidon Kremer , Radu Lupu , Alicia de Larrocha , Itzhak Perlman , András Schiff , Heinrich Schiff , Isaac Stern , Frank Peter Zimmermann and Tabea Zimmermann . He also conducted performances at various opera houses such as the Vienna State Opera , the Frankfurt Opera , the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf , the Amsterdam Opera and the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. From 1987 to 1993 he was general music director of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker , from 1992 to 2000 he was chief conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and from 1997 the Philharmonic Orchestra Luxembourg .
On September 15, 2000, David Shallon died suddenly and unexpectedly of an asthma attack in Tokyo while on a concert tour in Japan .
Web links
- Portrait of the Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Chief conductor JSO 1992–2000
- ^ Dignified memory of David Shallon Wiener Zeitung , February 23, 2001
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shallon, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | דויד שלון (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Israel |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 2000 |
| Place of death | Tokyo |