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Jeffrey Tate
Jury
Released: July 9, 2008
Jeffrey Tate, Chairman of the Jury, was born in England in 1943, and has a medical degree in addition to his accomplishments in the world of music. Maestro Tate was head of the vocal activities as well as chief conducting assistant at Covent Garden from 1971-77 and worked there with Georg Solti, Colin Davis, Rudolf Kempe and John Pritchard. He also worked with Herbert Von Karajan, James Levine and with Pierre Boulez in the 1976-80 Ring at Bayreuth. Soon he was conducting his own operas; "Don Giovanni" at the Met in 1983, "Ariadne auf Naxos" at the Paris Opera as well as Covent Garden, and Monteverdi's "Ritorno d'Ulisse" at the Salzburg Festival. He became Permanent Director of the English Chamber Orchestra in 1985, the first conductor to have been given this role. From 1989-1993 he was the Chief Conductor of the Rotterdam Symphony and was the first conductor to be invited by the Orchestre International de France. In 1990, he became director of the Youth Orchestra of the European Community. He is the musical director of the Opera San Carlo in Naples and principal conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra.
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Gordon Back
Jury
Released: April 19, 2009
Gordon Back was born in Wales, and studied piano and viola in Manchester . In 1972 he continued his postgraduate study in Italy with Guido Agosti. His brilliance as an accompanist and chamber musician was early recognized when he was invited to accompany the world's greatest international violin competitions such as Tchaikowsky , Moscow; Queen Elizabeth, Brussels; Indianapolis; Carl Flesch, London. Subsequently, Gordon Back performed and recorded with many great artists including Yehudi Menuhin, Nathan Milstein, Joseph Suk, Sarah Chang, and Maxim Vengerov. He has performed in virtually all of the major concert halls in the world. Since 2002, he has been the Director of the Menuhin International Violin Competition. Under his artistic leadership, it has become the leading competition in the world for young violinists. It will be hosted in Oslo in April, 2010. He was the youngest ever appointed Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he resides. Engagements in 2009 include performances as well as master classes in the USA, Swizerland, Czech Republic, France and UK.
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Philippe Entremont
Jury
Released: July 9, 2008
Philippe Entremont has enjoyed a major career as a concert pianist and conductor, and is Conductor Laureate of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and Principal Conductor of the Israel Chamber Orchestra. A native of Rheims in France, he made his professional debut at 16 in Barcelona in 1953, and was the First Prize winner at the Marguerite Long Competition in Paris at 19. Mr. Entremont made his American debut in 1953 with Leon Barzin. Since then, he has appeared throughout the world as soloist with the major orchestras of Europe as well as the United States. He was formerly President of the Ravel Academy in St. Jean de Luz and is now Director of the American Conservatory in Fontainbleau. He is winner of the Grand Prix du Disque and has had a Grammy nomination.
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Elizabeth Leonskaya
Jury
Released: July 9, 2008
Elizabeth Leonskaya is of Russian origin, studied under Jacob Milstein at the Moscow Conservatory, and before settling in Vienna in 1978 had won the prestigious Enescu and Marguerite Long competitions. She had also given many concerts that included duets with Sviatoslav Richter, in a partnership which had a profound influence on her subsequent development as an artist. However, it was her sensational debut at the 1979 Salzburg Festival that brought her name to the attention of Western audiences. Since then, she has played in numerous festivals and has been a guest at the world's most prestigious concert halls. She has appeared as a soloist under such conductors as Kurt Masur, Sir Colin Davis, Christoph Eschenbach, Mariss Jansons and has played with the world's finest orchestras. She also regularly plays chamber music, particularly quintets with the outstanding string players.
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Constantine Orbelian
Jury
Released: April 19, 2009
Constantine Orbellian is the first American to become music director of an ensemble in Russia . His Moscow Chamber Orchestra was created in 1956 by the celebrated conductor and violist Rudolf Barshai. Maestro Orbellian was born in San Francisco of Russian and Armenian parents, and made his debut as a pianist with the San Francisco Symphony at the age of 11. In his early teens, he went to study in the Soviet Union on a scholarship after graduating from Juilliard. He then embarked on a piano career that included close to a hundred concerts per year including performances with the symphony orchestras of Boston , Detroit and San Francisco as well as the Russian State Symphony. He won the "Best Concerto Award" in Great Britain for his performance of a Khachaturian concerto. Orbelian's worldwide tours with the MCO include concerts during 2005 and 2006 in New York, Washington, Miami, London, Paris, Munich, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Seoul, Prague and Istanbul. In July, 2005, Orbelian conducted baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky and the MCO in a live telecast in Tokyo, followed by a concert In Tokyo's Opera City Concert Hall, and a concert in Seoul's Sejong Center together with Korean soprano Sumi Jo. In 2004, Orbelian conducted legendary pianist Van Cliburn and the Moscow Philharmonic in a special memorial concert at Moscow's Great Hall, dedicated to the children of Beslan. Orbelian led New York's only Khachaturian Centennial Concert in 2003, with the Philharmonia of Russia and Marina Domashenko. Opera News calls Constantine Orbelian "the singer's dream collaborator," and commented that he conducts vocal repertoire "with the sensitivity of a lieder pianist." A mong his recent concert appearances are collaborations with vocal stars Ewa Podles, Roberto Alagna, Renée Fleming, Galina Gorchakova, Sondra Radvanovsky and Dmitri Hvorostovsky.
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Luis Pereira Leal
Jury
Released: July 9, 2008
Luis Pereira Leal assumed the position of Director of the Music Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon in 1978. In this position, he is responsible for Portugal's major symphony orchestra, and a series of recitals in Lisbon that includes the finest soloists from around the entire world. He studied composition and musicology at the Lisbon Conservatory, and serves on many international competition juries. Professor Leal is Artistic Director of the Sintra Music Festival and founded festivals in the Algarve and in Obidos.
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Ilana Vered
Jury
Released: July 9, 2008
Ilana Vered has been heard in recital in virtually all of the music centers of the world, and has played with most of the leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the London Symphony, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Munich Philharmonic and Israel Philharmonic under such great conductors as Stokowski, Solti, Mehta, Casadesus and Sawallish. She has appeared at Mostly Mozart, the Ravinia Festival, Tanglewood and Caramoor. She is a chamber msuician of distinction and is known for her frequent appearances with the Tokyo Quartet. She has recorded extensively and began playing the piano at the age of three, and later attended the Paris Conservatory where she studied with Vlado Perlmutter and completed her studies at Juilliard.
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All juries may be altered or expanded prior to the competition. Singer and instrumentalist still to be chosen
Jury
Released: July 25, 2008
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