Lawrence Foster
Lawrence Foster (born October 23, 1941, in Los Angeles, California) is an American conductor of Romanian ancestry.
Foster became the conductor of the San Francisco Ballet at the age of 18, and served as Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. He has held music directorships with the Houston Symphony, the Ojai Music Festival, the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya in Spain. In late 1989, Foster had been reported as the next Music Director of the Pacific Symphony of Orange County, California. However, in February 1990, the offer was rescinded, and Foster never held this post.[1][2]
In 1990, Foster was appointed Music Director of the Aspen Music Festival and School.[3]
Since 2002, Foster has been the music director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon. He has served as music director of the Orchestre National de Montpellier and the Opéra National de Montpellier since September 2009. In February 2012, Foster was announced as the next music director of l'Opéra de Marseille and the Orchestre philharmonique de Marseille, beginning in September 2012, with an initial contract of 4 years.[4]
Foster is particularly noted as an interpreter of the works of George Enescu, and has made a comprehensive survey of commercial recordings of Enescu's music.[4]
Foster has recorded a number of discs for PENTATONE, including Gordon Getty's opera Usher House, Schumann's symphonies, orchestral works by Kodaly, Bartok and Ligeti, and piano and violin concertos by Bruch, Korngold, Rachmaninov, Grieg and Chopin, with various soloists.
References
External links
- Harrison Parrott agency biography
- Lawrence Foster on IMDb
- Mark Swed, "Lawrence Foster at 70". Los Angeles Times, "Culture Monster" blog, 21 October 2011
- "Lawrence Foster appointed Music Director of Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille". Harrison Parrott agency release, 7 February 2012
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| Preceded by | Music Director, Houston Symphony 1971-1979 |
Succeeded by Sergiu Comissiona |
| Preceded by | Music Director, Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra 1980–1990 |
Succeeded by Gianluigi Gelmetti |
| Preceded by | Music Director, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra 1985–1990 |
Succeeded by Jesús López-Cobos |
| Preceded by | Music Director, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra 1988–1992 |
Succeeded by David Shallon |
| Preceded by | Music Director, Aspen Music Festival and School 1990–1998 |
Succeeded by David Zinman |
| Preceded by | Music Director, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya 1994-2002 |
Succeeded by Ernest Martínez Izquierdo |
| Preceded by | Principal Conductor, Gulbenkian Orchestra 2002-2013 |
Succeeded by Paul McCreesh |
| Preceded by
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Music Director, Orchestre et Opéra National de Montpellier 2009-present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
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Music Director, Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille 2012-present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
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