Walter Süsskind

This famed conductor, born Jan Süsskind, studied composition with Josef Suk and Alois Hába, and piano with Karel Hoffmeister on the Prague State Conservatory. His trained in performing was performed with Szell on the German Academy of Music. In 1931, he premiered a structure and made an appearance in concert being a pianist on the Prague Mozarteum. His performing debut was manufactured in 1934 using a creation of La traviata on the German Opera, where he previously been portion as an helper to Szell. He constructed his Four Music for Tone of voice and String Quartet in 1935 and continuing his piano activity using the Czech Trio from 1933 before German job in 1938. The trio after that escaped to London and continued to be collectively until 1942. Süsskind re-activated his performing as music movie director from the Carl Rosa Opera Business (1943 – 1945) and produced his orchestral debut performing the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (1945). After learning to be a English resident in 1946, he visited Glasgow to serve as music movie director for the Scottish Orchestra (later on the Scottish Country wide Orchestra). In 1953, Süsskind shifted to Australia to immediate the Victoria Symphony Orchestra in Melbourne until 1955. Throughout that period, he produced trips of America and china and taiwan. Then, moving once again, he aimed the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1956 to 1965, providing the Canadian premieres of Bruckner and Mahler symphonies, and founded the Country wide Youngsters Orchestra of Canada in 1958. In the meantime, he was music movie director for the Aspen Music Event in Colorado (1962 – 1968) and later on, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (1968 – 1975), which Süsskind included in a major organization, as well as the Mississippi River Event in Edwardsville, IL (1969 – 1975). From 1968 through 1975, Süsskind taught in the College or university of Southern Illinois. His performing college students included Leonard Slatkin and Gerhardt Zimmermann. His compositions at the moment included Nine Slovak Sketches for Orchestra along with a Passacaglia for Timpani and Chamber Orchestra (1977). As visitor conductor, Süsskind led main orchestras in European countries, the U.K., and THE UNITED STATES. He was the music consultant and principal visitor conductor from the Cincinnati Orchestra from 1978 until his moving in 1980. Süsskind’s discography consists of a lot more than 55 albums and shows with a few of the most mentioned performers from the twentieth hundred years: Jascha Heifetz, Arthur Rubenstein, Glenn Gould, Dennis Mind, Pierre Fournier, Joan Hammond, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Kirsten Flagstad, Lili Krauss, Szymon Goldberg, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Schnabel, Leonard Pennario, Shura Cherkassky, Neveu, Tito Gobbi, Victoria de LA, and many more.