Jaap van Zweden
Jaap van Zweden is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Radio Chamber Philharmonic, the two classical orchestras affiliated with the Dutch Broadcasting Music Center. He started in this position in the 2005/2006 season. In February 2007 he signed a contract to extend this position until 2013. At the same time Jaap van Zweden was announced Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Principal Conductor of the Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra as from the 2008/2009 season.
Jaap van Zweden began his musical career as youngest concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and performed under such conductors as Haitink, Dorati, Kondrashin, Bernstein, Giulini, Solti and Chailly. In 1995 he started his own conducting career. From 1996 to 2000 he held the position of Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra in Enschede and made his Carnegie Hall debut. From 2000 to 2005 he was Chief Conductor of The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra. With this orchestra several international tours were undertaken (Japan, Brazil, the Canary Islands). For Philips Classics he recorded the complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies.
Apart from an extensive symphonic repertoire, Jaap van Zweden conducted several opera’s during recent seasons: La Traviata and Fidelio with the Nationale Reisopera and Samuel Barber’s Vanessa in a concert performance at the Concertgebouw with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. In the 2006/2007 season he made his much praised debut with The Netherlands Opera conducting Madama Butterfly. Projects of the 2007/2008 season with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic included concert performances of Wagner’s Lohengrin in Amsterdam (the Concertgebouw) and Paris (Salle Pleyel).
Jaap van Zweden worked with countless renowned orchestras all over the world, such as the Gothenburg Symphony, WDR Cologne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Munich Philharmonic, Oslo Phiharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic and Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Future plans include debuts with the London Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo and Philadelphia Orchestra. He also continues recording his Bruckner cycle with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for the Octavia label. Symphonies 4, 5, 7 and 9 have already been released to great critical acclaim.
Laatste aanpassing op Thursday 6 November 2008
