Hans Graf

Austrian-born Hans Graf is among the most energetic conductors of his generation. Furthermore to simultaneously keeping positions as music movie director from the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Bordeaux Aquitaine Country wide Orchestra, as well as the Houston Symphony, Graf is definitely a busy visitor conductor in the us and European countries. Graf researched the violin along with his dad from age six, and later on researched the piano, in the Bruckner-Konservatorium. and he studied performing with Ferrara in Siena, Arvid Jansons in Leningrad, and Celibidache in Bologna. Early triumphs included a debut in the Vienna Condition Opera in 1977 and 1st prize in the Karl Böhm Competition in 1979. In 1984, he was appointed music movie director from the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. In THE UNITED STATES, Graf has carried out the orchestras of Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, St. Paul, Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. In European countries, he offers led nearly every main orchestra, like the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, the Gothenburg Symphony, as well as the Orchestre Country wide de France. He in addition has appeared at main international celebrations, including those of Vienna and Salzburg (where he carried out for 13 consecutive years). Graf offers made an appearance at many main European opera homes, including those in Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Paris, and Rome. As will be anticipated from such a occupied artist, Graf includes a huge discography. For the Capriccio label, he offers recorded the entire symphonies of Mozart and Schubert, aswell as the premiere saving of Zemlinsky’s opera Sera battle einmal. He in addition has embarked on the project of documenting the entire orchestral functions of Henri Dutilleux using the orchestra of Bordeaux for the label Arte Nova. The 1st disc with this series was awarded the Prix du Président de la République from the Académie du Disque Charles Gros.