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RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS Born in Burgos, Spain, in 1933, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos studied violin, piano, music theory and composition 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, principal guest conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC, and music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna Symphony, Bilbao Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Spain, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, and the Montreal Symphony. 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 Orchestra 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 con ductor 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 Symphony. He has also conducted the Israel Philharmonie and the major Japanese orchestras. He has made extensive tours with such ensembles as the Philharmonia of London, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Na tional Orchestra of Madrid, and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. He toured North America with the Vienna Symphony in three different seasons and he has led the Spanish National Orchestra on two tours of the United States. Future and recent engagements in North America include con certs with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh, National, Cincin nati, and Montreal symphony orchestra. 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, Orffs 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 dehnt in 1971, returning to the Boston Symphony po- dium for Tanglewood appearances in 2000, 2001,2002 and concerts to open the BSO regulär season in Symphony Hall. He returns to Tanglewood the summer of 2003 for 5 major concerts and appears twice in the 2003-04 sea son including the closing concerts of the season.
