Name: Zubin Mehta Gender: Male Nationality: Indian Birthday: April 29, 1936 Zubin Mehta was born on April 29, 1936 in a musical family in Mumbai, India. The family is An ancient Indian Jew.
My father, Meri, was one of the founders and permanent conductor of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. He later served as the second violin of the American Curtis String Quartet, the Minister of Music at the University of California, and Music Director of the Los Angeles American Youth Orchestra.
Mehta has lived in a family music environment since he was a child. He was influenced by classical music in his cradle. He began to learn violin and piano from his father at the age of 7, and He served as a double bass player in the school orchestra. When he was 9 years old, he went to New York with his father and became a student of the famous American violinist I. Calamian.
In 1954, he went to Austria He studied abroad and entered the Vienna Conservatory of Music, where he studied conducting with the H.Swarowsky, the head of the conducting department and the Hungarian conductor.
In the academy, in addition to conducting, he studied piano, composition and He played double bass, was tireless in learning, and was very diligent. In 1957, he received a conducting degree at the age of 21.
In the capital of music, Mehta, who had just debuted, had the opportunity to perform. His first conductor One opera is Beethoven's "Fidelio", followed by Richard Strauss's "Salome", "Den Rosenkavalier", etc. The most valuable thing is that he got E. Kleiber, Reiner , Karajan, Kubelik and Walter, etc. Mehta learned the "Viennese voice" from it.
In 1958, at the age of 22, Mehta won the International Conductor Award in Liverpool, England. Won the second prize in the competition, he became a blockbuster and caused a sensation in the music world. He was immediately hired as the assistant conductor of the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and was invited to serve as guest conductor across Europe. He was regarded as an outstanding young conductor. The following year, he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time. Becoming the youngest conductor in the history of the orchestra.
In 1961, he was hired as the music director and conductor of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in Canada. A 25-year-old boy was able to improve an orchestra of mediocre standards to Professional deputy conductor, the following year, he was promoted to music director and permanent conductor, becoming the youngest music director in the history of the orchestra.
Meta, who is of Jewish descent, is very concerned about the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. As early as 1962 He conducted the orchestra for the first time in 2001, and their cooperation has continued ever since. In 1969, he served as the orchestra's music consultant, and in 1977 he was renamed music director. In 1981, he was employed for life and became the permanent music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. He led the IPO to tour five continents. More than 1,600 times. It was welcomed by the world and became one of the world's famous orchestras. Mehta made the greatest contribution.
Mehta served as the music director of the New York Philharmonic. His appointment date was September 1978, and he was a guest before taking office. Conductor.
Mehta has led the New York Philharmonic Orchestra on many large-scale tours around the world, such as Argentina and the Dominican Republic in 1978, Europe in 1980, the United States and Mexico in 1981, and Mexico in 1982. He visited South America, the United States in 1983, Asia in 1984, Europe and Israel in 1985, Latin America in 1987, and the Soviet Union and 10 European countries in 1988. He was highly praised wherever he went. During the 13 years, Mehta conducted NYPO performances. He gave more than 1,000 concerts. In May 1991, the 100th anniversary of the completion of Carnegie Hall, he also conducted the NYPO to perform Schoenberg's "Gurrelied". Then, he suddenly reluctantly resigned from the NYPO conductor position. There were various reasons, but this time he learned the lesson, not saying a word of dissatisfaction with the NYPO, and maintaining a "friendly" relationship. The following year, he came back twice to guest conduct NYPO performances, one of which was the world premiere of Medinhain's last orchestral work " Eclairs Sur1'Eau Dela", a concert commemorating the 150th anniversary of the NYPO.
After leaving the NYPO, Mehta returned to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO).
Since 1985, he has also served as Chief conductor of the Florence Opera House/Florence Festival Orchestra in Italy. In 1989, he also led the European Youth Orchestra to tour Europe and India. On the way, he served as conductor at the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. .Mehta led IPO in March 1988 and NYPO to perform in Hong Kong in September 1989. I
I listened to them all, the quality is first-rate, and I will never forget it.
The very caring Meta, in June 1994, conducted the Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra to perform Mozart's "Requiem" at the National Library of Sarajevo, which was destroyed by the war. ", broadcast live to 26 cities around the world, raising funds for the United Nations Refugee Fund.
In March 1996, Mehta successfully conducted the Chicago Opera House's performance of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung". This was the year In order to celebrate his 60th birthday, he led IPO on a series of tours in the United States from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast. On his birthday in Los Angeles, he teamed up with IPO, IAPO and special guests Zuckerman, Perlman and Barenboi. Tom held a grand birthday concert.
In recent years, Mehta has frequently shuttled between the IPO Florence Opera House and the VPO. The annual VPO 1990 New Year's Concert was conducted by him. 1998 In 2008, he also served as the music director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, with a term of five years. In September 1998, Mehta led more than 200 people from the Florence Festival Orchestra and chorus to Beijing, and together with more than 600 Chinese extras, formed a strong lineup. Puccini's "Turandot" was performed at the Imperial Ancestral Temple in the Forbidden City in Beijing, which was a "work of the century" and caused a sensation. It is worth mentioning that during this period, China was experiencing a catastrophic flood that had not happened in a century. Mehta and "Turandot" The crew changed the lunchtime concert originally scheduled for a commercial performance into a charity performance for disaster relief, without taking any money. Mehta and his wife *** also donated another US$20,000 to the disaster-stricken areas in China. The benefit performance performed Verdi's "Requiem", which won the hearts of the people.
Mehta has been in the music scene for 40 years and has received numerous awards, such as the Nikish Ring, the Vienna Philharmonic Honorary Ring, an honorary member, an honorary citizen of Tel Aviv, as well as awards from India, Italy, Medals awarded by France and an honorary doctorate of music awarded by a university.
Mehta attaches great importance to recording. When he conducted a performance for the first time as a conductor, he recorded a record. A large number of high-quality records are scattered in major record companies. His portraits are often printed on the covers of his CDs. This handsome man is quite charming.
Mehta is a musician and knows the band well. , is able to control the sound of the band, with special emphasis on strings, which are like human voices. His sound has both clarity and richness. In his early years, he blindly pursued many sound effects, and there were more superficial things. Now, His conductor has music, emotion, personality, beauty, and modern flavor; his style has both Furtw?ngler's temperament, Toscanini's enthusiasm, Walter's romance, and Carla's style. Young's fluency is compounded by his own boldness, eclecticism, learning from the strengths of others, integrating the characteristics of masters from all over the world, and kneading them into his own conducting style. The most admirable thing is that Mehta digested the musical works of composers from various countries into his own He uses music as an international language and vividly expresses it, which clearly shows his unique conducting style. He is best at conducting late romantic composers such as Bruckner, Mahler, and Richard Schloss. He is also enthusiastic about conducting modern music.
Mehta has lived in Europe and the United States for a long time. He has always hoped to establish a national-level symphony orchestra in his motherland (India), so that he can have the opportunity to perform for He is looking forward to playing for the country, he is looking forward to it.
His representative CDs include: Bartok's "Violin Concertos No. 1 and 2" BPO Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony" IPO Bra Brahms' "Violin Concerto" NYPO Bruch's "Scottish Fantasy" IPO Bruch's "Violin Concerto No. 1" LAPO Bruckner's "Symphony No. 8" IPO Chopin's "First, Concerto for Two Pianos" IPO Dvo?ák's "Violin Concerto" NYPO Fauré's "Pelléas et Mélisande" Suite IPO Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody" IPO Liszt's "Prelude" BPO Mahler's "Third Symphony" 》IPO Mozart "Flute Concerto (K.313314)" IPO Prokofiev "Piano Concerto No. 1, 3 and 5" IPO Prokofiev "Violin Concerto No. 1 and 2" Saint-Sa?ns "Third Violin Concerto" 》IPO Schoenberg's "Song of Gurre" NYPO Smetana's "My Fatherland" IPO Richard Strauss's "The Hero's Life", "Salome" BPO Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" 》NYPO Tchaikovsky "Piano Concerto No. 1" NYPO (the above is produced by SONY) Berlioz "Symphony Fantasy" LPO Franck "Symphony in D minor" BPO Gershwin "An American in Paris" N
YPO Horst "Planet Suite" NYPO Orff "Brownie Song" LPO Paganini "Violin Concerto No. 1" LPO Puccini "Tosca" RAI Sibelius "Second Symphony" NYPO Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" IPO (the above one is produced by TELDEC) Chausson's "Poetry" (OP.25) NYPO Lalo's "Spanish Symphony" IPO Mozart's "Violin and Viola Concerto" IPO Puccini's "Ladies of the West" 》ROH Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" IPO (the above is produced by DG) Beethoven's "Piano Concertos No. 4 and 5" Bruckner's "Ode to Gratitude" Berlin State Opera Kraft's "Percussion Concerto" LAPO Mahler's "Fourth Symphony" "IPO Puccini's "Turandot" LPO (the above is produced by DECCA)
Mehta conducted the 2007 Vienna New Year's Concert.