Yoram David

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Yoram David (* in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli conductor and former general music director in Aachen .

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At the age of six, Yoram David moved with his family to Europe, where he began to study music with a focus on piano, composition and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London after completing school . He continued his studies with Hans Swarowsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . He then made his conducting debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Jerusalem and with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London.

In 1977 he moved to Germany, where in the following years he worked at several renowned houses such as the Frankfurt Opera , the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin, the State Opera Hamburg , the State Theater Stuttgart , and from 1980 the Bavarian State Opera Munich , in the latter especially the great Mozart operas, conducted. From 1982 he was taken on as a full-time conductor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, but also continued to make guest appearances with the German Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra Hamburg and SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg as well as the Berlin Philharmonic .

After Jean-Francois Monnard's temporary position in the 1983/84 season, Yoram David was appointed as the official successor to Gabriel Chmura as general music director at the Stadttheater Aachen in 1984 . In addition to the works by Mozart and Strauss, it was all of Mahler's symphonies that David completely reissued with the Aachen Symphony Orchestra .

In 1990 David moved to Italy, where he has since worked at such well-known theaters as the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa , the Teatro La Fenice in Venice , the Teatro Massimo in Palermo , the Teatro San Carlo in Naples or the Teatro dell ' Opera in Rome was hired as a conductor and where he made successful appearances with the orchestras there. In the meantime, however, he has also been invited to music festivals and performances with renowned local orchestras in other parts of the world, which have taken him to Tokyo, São Paulo, Glasgow, Helsinki, Geneva, Bremen and Frankfurt, among others. In addition to the usual standard works, David has shifted his focus to the reinterpretation of Beethoven's 9th Symphony with various orchestras in recent years . But he was also open to contemporary music and was responsible, for example, for the Italian premiere of the opera The Devils of Loudun by Krzysztof Penderecki in Turin .

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SURNAME David, Yoram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli conductor and general music director in Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv