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the 2011-2012 season. Kurt Masur holds the title of Laureate Conductor, Markus Poschner is the orchestra’s First Principal Guest Conductor (be- ginning with the 2010-2011 season), and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos is Music Director Emeritus. About the Artists RAFAEL FRÜHBECK DE BURGOS Fondue tor) is a regulär guest with North America’s top or- chestras. Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos will conduct the Cincinnati, Boston, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Montreal Symphony Orchestras in the 2011-2012 season, and returns to the New York Philharmonie for the fourth time since 2005. He appears annually at the Tangle- wood Music Festival and regularly with the Na tional, Chicago, and Toronto symphonies. Born in Burgos, Spain in 1933, 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. From 2004-2011, he was Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Dresden Philharmonie, and in the 2012-2013 season begins his post as Chief Con ductor of the Danish National Orchestra. Maestro Frühbeck has made extensive tours with such ensembles as the Philharmonia of Lon don, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Na tional Orchestra of Madrid, and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. He toured North America with the Vienna Symphony, the Spanish National Or chestra, and the Dresden Philharmonie. Named Conductor of the Year by Musical America in 2011, other numerous honours and distinctions he has been awarded include the Gold Medal of the City of Vienna, the Bun desverdienstkreutz 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, con- ferred in 1997 by the Queen of Spain. In 1998, Frühbeck de Burgos received the appointment of “Emeritus Conductor” by the Spanish National Orchestra. He has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Navarra in Spain. Since 1975 he has been a member of the Royal Acad emy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. 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 inter- pretations 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. GAUTIER CAPUCON (cello) has been called “A young star in the cello firmament” by Gramo phone. Since winning the French Victoires de la Musique as “New Talent of the Year” in 2001 he has quickly established himself as one of the lead- ing cellists of his generation. Born in Chambery, France in 1981, Gautier Capucon was four and a half years old when he began to study the cello at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Chambery He studied in Paris at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris with Philippe Muller, Annie Cochet-Zakine and Christophe Egiziano, as well as Heinrich Schiff in Vienna. In addition to nu merous first and second place prizes in interna tional competitions, Capucon won the Cello and Chamber Music Prize at the Conservatoire in June 2000 and received a Burlotti-Buitoni Trust award in 2004. His musical experiences progressed greatly while playing in the European Commu nity Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Ju gendorchester, as he was afforded opportunities to work with Bernard Haitink, Kent Nagano, Pierre Boulez, Daniele Gatti, Seiji Ozawa, and Claudio Abbado, with whom he has taken part in two European tours. In the 2011-2012 season, Capucon will make his debut with Chicago Symphony, under the baton of Charles Dutoit. He will also debut with Symphonies of Boston and Montreal, and return for performances with National Symphony Or chestra and Philadelphia Orchestra. In Europe, Capucon will debut with the Berlin Philharmonie Orchestra (Europa Konzert) with Gustavo Du- damel and with the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev. In November 2012, he will tour China with the BBC Philharmonie Orchestra under Juan Mena. Capucon’s 2010-2011 season included a spe cial tour with pianist Gabriella Montero featuring works from their recording, Rhapsody, in Mon treal, New York City, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Seattle, Kansas City, and Calgary, AB. Capucon made his debut with the Los Angeles Philhar-