Maximiano Valdés
Maximiano Valdés (born June 17, 1947 in Santiago de Chile ) is a Chilean conductor .
biography
Valdés first studied piano and violin in Santiago de Chile before completing his studies at the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome , where he also studied composition and conducting. After receiving his diploma in piano, he decided to focus on the career of a conductor and assisted Franco Ferrara in Bologna , Siena and Venice as well as with Sergiu Celibidache in Stuttgart and Paris . This was followed in 1976 by an assistant position at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice and in 1978 in the same position in Tanglewood under Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa .
His first successful guest appearance in North America in October 1987 with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra was followed in 1989 by his appointment as music director of the same orchestra, whose position he held until 1998. Through his work in Buffalo , he gained a high profile in the United States and was therefore invited as a guest conductor by well-known orchestras. Including St. Louis , Montreal , Baltimore , Seattle , Houston , Dallas of the New World Symphonies and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra . It was inevitable that afterwards he was offered engagements as a guest conductor worldwide. Further positions as chief conductor or music director were at the Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturia in Spain and at the Teatro Municipal in Santiago de Chile. Since 2008 he has been music director of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra .
Engagements in North America
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
- Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
- Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
- Houston Symphony Orchestra
- Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
- Louisiana Philharmonic
- Orchester symphonique de Montréal
- National Arts Center Orchestra
- National Symphony Orchestra
- New World Symphony (orchestra)
- Phoenix Symphony
- Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
- San Diego Symphony
- Seattle Symphony
- Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
- Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Other orchestral engagements
- Orquesta Sinfónica de la Juventud Venezolana Simón Bolívar (1978–1982)
- Dresden Philharmonic
- Russian State Symphony Orchestra
- Sinfonia Varsovia
- Krakow Philharmonic
- National Symphony Orchestra of Polish Radio
- Orchester Philharmonique de Nice
- Lisbon Philharmonic
- Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
- Orquesta Sinfonica d'Estado de São Paulo
Summer festival engagements
- Mann Music Center
- Caramoor Festival
- Interlochen Center for the Arts
- Grand Teton Music Festival
- Eastern Music Festival
- Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
- Music Academy of the West
- Grant Park Symphony Orchestra
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. BPO archive, accessed on March 29, 2017 (English).
- ^ New World Symphony. Retrieved March 29, 2017 (English).
- ↑ biography. CM Artists New York, accessed March 29, 2017 .
- ^ Michael Huebner: Conductor profile Maximiano Valdés. September 24, 2013, accessed March 30, 2017 .
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SURNAME | Valdés, Maximiano |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean conductor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |