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RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS Conductor Born in Burgos, Spain, in 1933, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos studied violin, piano, music theory and com- position at the conservatories in Bilbao and Madrid, and conducting at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik, where he graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Richard Strauss Prize. He has served as general music director of the Rundfunkorchester Berlin, Prin cipal guest conductor of the National Symphony Or chestra in Washington, DC, and music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna Symphony, Bilbao Or chestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Spain, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, and the Montreal Sym phony. For many seasons, he was also guest conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. He is the newly named principal conductor of the Or chestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Turin. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos has conducted virtually all of the major orchestras in the United States and Canada. He is a regulär guest conductor with most of the major European ensembles, including all of the London orchestras, the Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg Philharmonie Orchestras, the German Radio Orchestras, and the Vienna Sym phony. He has also conducted the Israel Philharmonie and the major Japanese orches tras. He has made extensive tours with such ensembles as the Philharmonia of London, the London Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Madrid, and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. He toured North America with the Vienna Symphony in three differ ent seasons and he has led the Spanish National Orchestra on two tours of the United States. Future and recent engagements in North America include concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Pittsburgh, National, Cincinnati, and Montreal Sym phony orchestras. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos has recorded extensively for EMI, Decca, Deutsche Gramophone, Spanish Columbia, and Orfeo. Several of his recordings are considered to be classics, including his interpretations of Mendelssohn’s Elijah and St. Paul, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bizet’s Carmen, and the complete works of Manual de Falla, including Atläntida and La vida breve. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos made his Boston Symphony debut in 1971, returning to the Boston Symphony podium for Tanglewood appearances in 2000, 2001, 2002 and concerts to open the BSO regu lär season in Symphony Hall. He returned to Tanglewood the summer of 2003 for 5 major concerts and appeared twice in the 2003-04 season including the closing con certs of the season.
