Kazakh musician as Principal conductor RTE NSO designated
16:22, 2 June 2009
ASTANA. June 2. KAZINFORM RTÉ today announced Kazakh conductor Alan Buribayev as the Principal Conductor Designate of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Irland. He will succeed Gerhard Markson, who has held the role from September 2001 and who made his final appearance as Principal Conductor last Friday in the closing concert of the RTÉ NSO subscription season, as press service of RTÉ Performing Groups reports.
Alan Buribayev will be Principal Conductor Designate for the 2009-2010 season and will take up the position of Principal Conductor in September 2010 on a three-year contract, conducting the RTÉ NSO in a minimum of eight concerts a year.
Having made three appearances with the RTÉ NSO between 2006 and 2009, Alan will return in May 2010 to conduct two concerts as part of the RTÉ NSO 2009-2010 season. His first concert (7 May 2010) features Tchaikovsky's 'Pathétique' Symphony, Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto with Finghin Collins and a new piece by Irish composer Jennifer Walshe. His second concert (28 May 2010) features Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique, Beethoven's 'Emperor' Concerto with pianist François-Frédéric Guy and Mozart's Magic Flute Overture.
RTÉ's Executive Director of Performing Groups, Séamus Crimmins, commented:
'I am delighted that Alan Buribayev has agreed to become Principal Conductor Designate, RTÉ NSO, the youngest conductor ever appointed to the post. Alan is a charismatic, cultivated and experienced musician of exceptional talent. Already in his guest performances with the RTÉ NSO, audiences have been struck by the expressive flair and brilliance he and the orchestra can produce together'
Alan Buribayev said: Ever since my first visit to Dublin to conduct the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in 2006, I have been captivated by the music, the people and the culture of Ireland, and I am keen to spend as much time as possible in this wonderful city. '
Alan Buribayev was born in 1979 to a family of musicians; his father is a cellist and conductor and his mother is a pianist. Graduating with honours from the Kazakh State Conservatory as both violinist and conductor, he continued his conducting studies at the University of Music, Vienna with Professor Uros Lajovic.
His victory at the Lovro von Matacic Conducting Competition in Zagreb in 1999 brought him to international attention and led to invitations from several European orchestras. In the 2001 Malko Conducting Competition in Copenhagen he was awarded a Special Prize recognising his 'outstanding talent and promise', and that same year he went on to win First Prize in the Antonio Pedrotti Competition.
Alan works regularly with major orchestras such as the Oslo Philharmonic, Dresden Philharmonic, Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi Milan and Bournemouth Symphony. Other orchestras he has worked with include the London Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Melbourne Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Gothenburg Symphony, Stockholm Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR, Orchestre National de Lille, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, St Petersburg Philharmonic and NDR Symphony-Hamburg. He has also conducted a production of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades at the Opéra National de Lyon.
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