Philippe Entremont Conductor/Pianist P hilippe Entremont is inter national^ renowned as an artist of remarkable technique and style, both at the keyboard and on the podium. Lifetime Music Direc- torof the Vienna Chamber Orches tra, which celebrates its forty- seventh season this year, Mr. Entremont led the ensemble on a seventeen-city United States tour in early 1993, including engagements at Carnegie Hall and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Additionally, in January 1993, assumed the post of Principal Conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Last season, Maestro Entremont’s guest conducting engagements included appearances with the symphonies of Houston, New Orleans and Milwaukee. In Europe, he appeared in France, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway and Denmark. He then returned to the New York Philharmonie in June 1993 as the piano soloist for Berstein’s “Age of Anxiety" (Symphony No. 2) with Leonard Slatkin conducting, as part of the orchestra’s 150th anniversary season celebration. Mr. Entremont gave the world premiere of the final version of the work under the baton of Leonard Bernstein. In September of 1993, Philippe Entremont opened the Dallas Symphony’s season as conductor and soloist with the orchestra. Other highlights of his 1993-94 season will include a month-long engagement with Tokyo’s NHK Symphony as well as two solo recital appearances. In the United States he will lead the Dresden Philharmonie Orchestra in its first American tour in early 1994. Mr. Entremont’s latest recordings are volumes three and four of afour-disc set of the complete Mozart piano sonatas on the Pro Arte label and five Haydn symphonies on the Harmonia Mundi label. His other releases include re-issues by Sony Classical of his Chopin, Debussy, Ravel and Saint-Saens discs (originally on CBS), as well as Schubert and Dvorak pieces for piano and string quartet with the soloists of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra for Pro Arte. His recordings of Stravinsky, Bernstein, Milhaud, Jolivet, Satie, Dohnanyi, Richard Strauss, Saint-Saens and Litolff, also reissued by Sony Classical, are considered —continued on page X
