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| | Flor Claus Peter | | direttore d'orchestra | 
| Respected by musicians the world over as a hugely gifted conductor, and for his instinctive@musicality, Claus Peter Flor is steeped in the cntral European tradition. From September 2003 he@takes up the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe@Verdi, with a personal remit from their Music Director Riccardo Chailly to fill a role in developing the@orchestra's work in the central European repertoire. He recently renewed his contract as Principal@Guest Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra until 2005.@Born in Leipzig in 1953, he was taught the violin in Weimar and Leipzig, and subsequently studied@conducting with Rolf Reuter, and later on with Rafael Kubelik and Kurt Sanderling. At the age of 31@he became General Music Director of the Berlin Symphony, also conducting the other major (East-)@German orchestras: Leipzig Gewandhaus and Dresden Staatskapelle. In 1988 he made his debut@with the Berlin Philharmonic, where he has returned twice. From 1991-4 he was Principal Guest@Conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London and held the same position alongside that of@Artistic Advisor to the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zürich from 1991-96.@Claus Peter Flor has appeared regularly with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Symphony,@Orchestre de Paris, Bamberg Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic and the radio orchestras of@Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Leipzig as well as guesting with the Munich Philharmonic,@Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, London Symphony, NHK Symphony & Yomiuri Orchestra, La@Scala Milan among others.@Forthcoming engagements include return visits to the Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris,@Vienna Symphony, Deutsche Oper, Dutch Radio Philharmonic, Zürich Tonhalle, Orchestra Verdi di@Milano. Since his American debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1985 he has also worked@with the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony@and New York Philharmonic, and he is a frequent visitor to Montreal, St Louis, Houston, Minnesota;@in coming months he also conducts the Toronto Symphony and Pittsburgh Symphony.@He has conducted opera productions in Munich, Dresden, Hamburg, Cologne, the Deutsche Oper@and the Berlin Staatsoper, where he returned in January 2000 for performances of Freischütz. This@was followed by a new production of Meistersinger at La Monnaie in Brussels, which he then took@toTokyo in June 2002. Last year he also conducted a concert performance of Rienzi in Paris with@the Orchestre National de France. He has conducted Figaro at La Monnaie and last season in@Toulouse, where he returns for Zauberflöte, Cosi fan tutte and Arabella. In 2003 he conducts La@Boheme for Dallas Opera, Zauberflöte for the Houston Grand Opera, and Euryanthe for the@Netherlands Opera, with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.@Claus Peter Flor has made many recordings for BMG Classics/RCA Victor Red Seal, most notably@Shostakovich's 10th Symphony with the Concertgebouw, Martinu symphonies with the Berlin@Symphony, Mozart and Weber with the Philharmonia (with Haydn, Szymanowski and Janacek to@be released), Zemlinsky with the Hamburg Radio, and a highly acclaimed Mendelssohn cycle with@the Bamberg Symphony. He also recorded the world premiere recording of Bruch's Oratorio@Moses with the Bamberg Symphony, released on Orfeo.@Claus Peter Flor is represented by Intermusica.@April 2003/510 words. Not to be altered without permission. Please destroy all previous biographical material. |
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