Lawrence Foster

Lawrence Foster ( born October 23, 1941 in Los Angeles ) is an American conductor.

Life

The son of Romanian immigrants studied with Fritz Zweig and Joanna Graudan and debuted in 1960 with the newly founded Young Musicians Foundation Orchestra debut, which he directed until 1964. He also worked from 1962 to 1965 as conductor of the San Francisco Ballet. From 1965 to 1968 he was an assistant of Zubin Mehta at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1966 he won the Koussevitzky at Tanglewood Memorial conductors prize.

Since 1971 he has been Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Houston Symphony Orchestra ( 1971-1979 ), the Monte - Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra ( 1980-1990 ), the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne ( 1985-1990 ), the Orquestra de Barcelona i Nacional Simfònica de Catalunya (1994-2002) and the Gulbenkian Orchestra ( since 2002).

In addition, he frequently worked with the Australian Youth Orchestra and other youth orchestras. From 1998 to 2001 he was artistic director of the International Festival and Competition George Enescu, where he performed mainly of Romanian composers. On the 50th anniversary of the death of George Enescu, he took a box with his works for the label EMI.

As an opera conductor Forster appeared at the world's major opera houses. In 2006 he presented a completed by Robert Orledge version of Claude Debussy's unfinished opera La Chute de la maison Usher (after Edgar Allan Poe ) at the Bregenz Festival. In 2008 he conducted Albert Roussel's opera Padmâvatî in the Paris Théâtre du Châtelet and Ernest Reyers Salammbô at the Opéra de Marseille. Since the 2009-2010 season he has been the musical director of the Opéra National de Montpellier.

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• Born in 1941
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