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meet the / / a/'hdid RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS, Principal Conductor Born in Burgos, Spain, in 1933, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos studied vio- lin, piano, music theoiy and composition at the conservatories in Bilbao and Madrid, and conducting at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik, where he grad- uated summa cum laude and was awarded the Richard Strauss Prize. He cur- rently is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Dresden Philharmonie. He has served as general music director of the Rundfunkorchester (Radio Orchestra) Berlin, principal guest conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC, and music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna Symphony, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Turin, Bilbao Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Spain, the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, and the Montreal Symphony. For many sea- sons, he was also principal guest conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo. Düring the 2007-08 season Maestro Frühbeck will appear with major orchestras across North America including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Boston Symphony Orchestra and will retum to Tanglewood in August 2008. Maestro Frühbeck will also join the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in January 2008 for a six-city tour across Spain and will tour the United States with the Dresden Philharmonie in February of 2008. He is a regulär guest conductor with most of the major European ensembles, including the London Philharmonia, 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 orches tras. Maestro Frühbeck 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 different seasons and he has led the Spanish National Orchestra on two tours of the United States. Since 1975 he has been a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. The numerous honours and distinctions he has been awarded include the Gold Medal of the City of Vienna, the Bundesverdienstkreutz of the Republic of Austria and Germany, the Gold Medal from the Gustav Mahler International Society, and the Jacinto Guerrero Prize, Spain’s most important musical award, conferred in 1997 by the Queen of Spain. In 1998 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos received the appointment of “Emeritus Conductor" by the Spanish National Orchestra. He has received an honoraiy doctorate from the University of Navarra in Spain. 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 interpre- tations of Mendelssohns Elijah and St. Paul, Mozarts Requiem, OrfFs Carmina Burana, Bizet’s Carmen, and the complete works of Manual de Falla
