Yakov Kreizberg
Yakov Kreizberg, also Jakov Kreizberg, Yakov Kreizberg (Russian Яков Крейцберг; born October 24, 1959 in Leningrad, † March 15, 2011 in Monte Carlo ) was a Russian-born American conductor and an Austrian citizen.
Life
Kreizberg began his education in his hometown in piano, composition and conducting. At the age of 16, he emigrated to the United States where he studied at the Mannes College, in Ann Arbor. One of his most important teacher was Leonard Bernstein. To avoid confusion with his brother, the conductor Semyon Bychkov, Kreizberg took the name of his grandfather. 1988 married Yakov Kreizberg and his pupil, the conductor Amy Andersson. Their children are David (* 1991) and Daniel (* 1997).
Since 1992, he has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, the Czech Philharmonic, the Russian National Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
Kreizberg was chief conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic and the Dutch Chamber Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. From 1988 to 1994 he was music director at the Community Theater Krefeld / Mönchengladbach from 1994 to 2001 at the Komische Oper Berlin. Since 2009 he has held the position of Artistic Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, with which he recorded on the private label also recordings.
His discography includes symphonies of Antonín Dvořák and Franz Schmidt. Kreizberg realized with various orchestras recordings for the label Pentatone. Furthermore him close collaboration with the violinist Julia Fischer these recordings were, inter alia, awarded the Diapason d' Or and the Echo Award Association. 1997 Kreizberg was awarded the German Critics Prize. For his recording of the 7th Symphony by Anton Bruckner with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in 2006, he was nominated in two categories for the Grammy Awards, including "Best orchestral performance". In 2007 he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art for his contribution to the Austrian musical life. In 2008, he acquired the Austrian citizenship.
On 14 February 2011 he conducted his last concert. It was held with the Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. On 15 March 2011 Kreizberg died after a long illness. On October 8, 2011, his ashes at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 40, Number 179) was buried in a dedicated honorary grave of Vienna.