Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos has performed with more than 100 orchestras in Europe, America, Canada, Japan and Israel. He has also conducted opera performances in Europe, the United States and South America. From 1991 to 1996 he was Principal Conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and held the post of General Music Director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin between 1992 and 1997. He was also Principal Conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin from 1994 to 2000 and was appointed lifetime conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino in 2001 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos has received numerous honors and distinctions for his artistic achievement, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Navarra and the University of Burgos in Spain. In 1996 he was awarded the “Silver Badge" for the Service to the Republic of Austria and the Gold Medal from the International Gustav Mahler Society. In 1997 he received the most important Spanish music award, the Jacinto Guerrero Award, and in 1998 was appointed Emeritus Conductor of the Spanish National Orchestra. Frühbeck de Burgos was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonie in 2003, one year later assuming the post of Principal Conductor and Artistic Director. More than 100 recordings testify to his worldwide reputation. Some of these recordings have already become classics: Mendelssohn's Elias and Paulus, Mozarts Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, Bizet's Carmen as well as the complete works of his fellow countryman Manuel de Falla. Es ist mir eine große Ehre und eine besondere Freude, mit der Dresdner Philharmonie in China aufzutreten. Ein schöneres Zeichen für die weltumspannende Kraft der Musik ist kaum denkbar! Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Chefdirigent und Künstlerischer Leiter der Dresdner Philharmonie the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra Montreal. He has also conducted the Yomiuri Nippon Orchestra of Tokyo and the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington as Principal Guest Conductor. With the Dresden Philharmonie he has recorded Richard Strauss’s “Don Quixote”, “Don Juan” and “Till Eulenspiegel”, “An Alpine Symphony” and “Rosenkavalier Suite”, the New Year’s concert 2007 with a wide ränge of “encores” (by Brahms, Strauß, de Falla, Dvorak, Bizet and others), Anton Bruckner’s 3rd Symphony and orchestral highlights from operas by Richard Wagner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Tristan und Isolde, Götterdämmerung). The latest release (February 2008) presents Johannes Brahms’ First and Third Symphony.
