David Zinman
David Zinman (* July 10, 1936 in New York, NY, USA) is an American conductor.
Biography
Zinman studied theory and composition at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and at the University of Minnesota and took up conducting at Tanglewood. In Maine, he worked from 1958 to 1962 with Pierre Monteux together and was his assistant from 1961 to 1964 with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Zinman was principal conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra from 1965 to 1977, then music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1974 to 1985 and finally principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 1979 to 1982.
Zinman was music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 1985 (until 1998). Along with this orchestra he recorded numerous important musical productions, including the Schumann symphonies.
Since 1995 he has been chief conductor of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. He had great success ( Beethoven symphonies, music by Robert Schumann and Richard Strauss) in his concerts and was celebrated on CD.
In autumn 2009, David Zinman and the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich was added together with composer Diego Baldenweg and music producer Lionel Vincent Baldenweg an elaborate soundtrack for the movie 180 °, which honors the Locarno International Film Festival with the SUISA award for " Best Soundtrack 2010" been.
David Zinman lives in New Jersey, USA, and in Zurich. Again and again Zinman conducts the renowned American orchestras of Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and New York; in Europe he appears regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, the London Philharmonia Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Orchestra.