David Zinman

	Chart positions ; Explanation of the data
	Albums
	Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 (with the London Sinfonietta )
	Beethoven Violin Concerto Op. 61 - Violin Romances Op. 40 & 50 (with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich )

David Joel Zinman (born July 10, 1936 in New York ) is an American conductor .

Life

Zinman received his first violin lessons at the age of six. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts on the Upper West Side in Manhattan and studied violin at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio, and theory and composition at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He took conducting studies at the Tanglewood Music Center of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lenox, Massachusetts. In Maine he worked with Pierre Monteux from 1958 to 1962 and was his assistant with the London Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1964 . He had his big breakthrough at the Holland Festival in 1963.

Zinman was from 1964 to 1977 (alongside Szymon Goldberg ) conductor of the Nederlands Kamerorkest in Amsterdam, then music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in Rochester, New York from 1974 to 1985 and finally chief conductor of the Dutch Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 1979 to 1982 Years guest conductor, he was music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in Baltimore, Maryland from 1985 to 1998 . Together with this orchestra he recorded numerous important music productions, including the Schumann symphonies and American classical music. Under his leadership, the BSO advanced to become one of the most important ensembles in the USA. He brought u. a. Works by John Adams , William Bolcom , Richard Danielpour , Michael Daugherty , Aaron Jay Kernis , Leon Kirchner , Christopher Rouse and Michael Torke premiered. His recording of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki's 3rd Symphony with the London Sinfonietta became an international bestseller.

Since 1995 he has been chief conductor of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra . There he had great successes ( Beethoven symphonies , music by Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss ) in his concerts and was also celebrated thanks to his CD recordings. In autumn 2009, Zinman and the Tonhalle Orchestra together with the composers Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Vincent Baldenweg recorded an elaborate soundtrack for the film 180 ° , which won the SUISA prize for the "best film music 2010" at the Locarno International Film Festival. was honored. Since 2010 he has been leading international conducting courses with the orchestra. In 2014 he said goodbye in Zurich.

From 1998 to 2009 he was Artistic Director of the Aspen Music Festival and School in Aspen, Colorado, and Program Director of the American Academy of Conducting . Zinman has repeatedly conducted the renowned American orchestras in Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and New York; in Europe he is a guest with the Berlin Philharmonic , the Orchester de Paris , the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the London Philharmonia Orchestra , the Munich Philharmonic , the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as well as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra .

David Zinman lives in New Jersey, USA, and in Zurich.

1989: Grammy Awards in the categories "Best solo instrument performance with orchestra" and "Best classical solo vocal performance"
1991: Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Humane Letters) from the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts
1993: Gramophone Classical Music Awards in the "Best-Selling Record" category
1994: Gramophone Classical Music Awards in the "Orchestral" category
1994: Grammy Awards in the categories "Best solo instrument performance with orchestra" and "Best contemporary classical composition"
1997: Ditson Conductor's Award from the Alice M. Ditson Fund
1997: Grammy Awards in the categories "Best Classical Album" and "Best Solo Instrument Performance with Orchestra"
1998: Gramophone Classical Music Awards in the "Concerto" category
1999: Annual prize of the German Record Critics' Prize for the complete recording of the Beethoven symphonies (with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich)
2000: Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture
2002: Art Prize of the City of Zurich
2006: Theodore Thomas Award from the Conductors Guild
2008: Midem Classical Award in the "Artist of the Year" category
2011: ECHO Klassik in the category "Symphonic recording of the year (19th century)"
2012: Induction into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum
2014: Honorary Conductor of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
2015: ECHO Klassik in the “Conductor of the Year” category
2015: Best list 1-2015 of the German Record Critics' Award

Charles Barber: Zinman, David. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Zinman, David . In: John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record. Greenwood Press, Westport 1982, ISBN 0-575-02781-9 , p. 732.
David Zinman. In: Julia Spinola: The great conductors of our time. With a detailed lexicon part. Henschel, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89487-480-5 , pp. 286-267.
Julian Caskel: Zinman, David . In: Julian Caskel, Hartmut Hein (Hrsg.): Handbuch Dirigenten. 250 portraits . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7618-2174-9 , pp. 418-420.

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↑ Chart sources: CH UK
↑ Honorary Degree Recipients , uawards.dl.umn.edu, accessed February 14, 2018.
↑ Conductors Award , ditsonfund.org, accessed February 14, 2018.
↑ Annual prices 1999 , schallplattenkritik.de, accessed on February 14, 2018.
↑ ECHO Klassik 2011 award winners (PDF), echoklassik.de, accessed on February 14, 2018.
↑ ECHO Klassik 2015: Prize Winners (PDF), echoklassik.de, accessed on February 14, 2018.
↑ Best List 1-2015 , schallplattenkritik.de, accessed on February 14, 2018.