The Buenos Aires Philharmonic ( es, Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian orchestra based in
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...
. Founded in 1946, it is based in the renowned
Teatro Colón
The Teatro Colón (Spanish: ''Columbus Theatre'') is the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic. According to a survey carried out by the acousti ...
, and is considered one of the most prestigious orchestras in its nation and Latin America, and has received several honours in 60 years of history. Their local counterparts in the national aegis are the
Argentine National Symphony Orchestra and the
Teatro Colón
The Teatro Colón (Spanish: ''Columbus Theatre'') is the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is considered one of the ten best opera houses in the world by National Geographic. According to a survey carried out by the acousti ...
Orchestra. The orchestra's current Music Director is Mexican
Enrique Diemecke
Enrique Arturo Diemecke (born July 9, 1952) is a Mexican conductor, violinist and composer. He is currently the Artistic General Director of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and music director of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic and the Flint Symp ...
.
History
The Buenos Aires Philharmonic was created in 1946 with the name ''Orquesta Sinfónica del Teatro Municipal'', offering its first concert on May 21, 1947. Its first official conductor was
Lamberto Baldi; years later, the position was taken over by
Jaime Pahissa. In 1948 the orchestra changed its name to the Symphony orchestra of the city of Buenos Aires; this same year, celebrated conductor
Herbert von Karajan
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conducted the orquestra on two occasions. In 1953 the orchestra moved to its permanent residence in the Colón Theatre and in 1958 adopted its current name.
During the following decades, the orchestra reached international prestige, performing with well-known national and international soloists. These included such pianists as
Alfred Brendel
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,
Martha Argerich
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Early life and education
Argerich was born in Buenos Ai ...
,
Lazar Berman
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,
Alfred Cortot
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Byron Janis
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Rudolf Firkusny,
Andor Foldes
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Ivo Pogorelich
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Nelson Freire
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Bruno Leonardo Gelber
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Biography
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,
Arthur Rubinstein
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet
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Jean-Yves Thibaudet was born in Lyon, France, to non-professional musical parents. His father played the violin, and his mother, ...
,
Rubén González,
Barry Douglas,
Nelson Goerner
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,
Peter Donohoe,
Friedrich Gulda
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Rudolf Buchbinder
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Biography
Buchbinder studied with Bruno Seidlhofer at the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1965, he made a tour of North and South Americas. In ...
,
Andras Schiff y
Manuel Rego
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People
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. Violinist included
Gidon Kremer
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Gidon Kremer was born in Riga. His father was Jewish and had survived the Holoc ...
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David Oistrakh
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Oistrakh collaborated with major orchestras and musicians from many parts of the world and was the dedicatee of numerous violin w ...
,
Joshua Bell
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Early life and education
Bell was born in Bloomington, Indiana, to Shirley Bell, a therapist, and Alan P. Bell, a psychologis ...
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Shlomo Mintz
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Alberto Lysy
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The violin gifted to him was a very old Stradivarius. Among his friends were Charlie Chaplin and family whose Swis ...
,
Ruggiero Ricci
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He was born in San Bruno, California, the son of Italian immigrants who first ...
,
Yehudi Menuhin
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,
Itzhak Perlman
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,
Midori
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Places
* Midori, Gunma
* Midori-ku, Chiba
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* Midori-ku, Sagamihara
* Midori-ku, Saitama
* Midori-ku, Yokohama
People Given name
* M ...
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Gil Shaham
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Gil Shaham was born in Urbana, Illinois, while his Israeli parents were on an academic fellowship at the University of Illino ...
,
Jacques Singer
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Jakob Singer was ...
,
Henryk Szeryng
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He was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy Jewish family. The surname "Szeryng" is a Polish ...
,
Salvatore Accardo
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Accardo owns one Stradivarius violin, the "Ha ...
,
Leonid Kogan
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,
Cho-Liang Lin
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and
Uto Ughi
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. Cellists included
Pablo Casals
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Mstislav Rostropovich
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,
Mischa Maisky
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Biography
Mischa Maisky was born in 1948 in Riga and is the younger brother of organist, har ...
,
André Navarra
André-Nicolas Navarra (Biarritz, 13 October 1911 – Siena, 31 July 1988) was a French cellist and cello teacher.
Early life
He was born into a musical family in Biarritz, his father being a bassist of Italian descent."'Play From The Stomach, ...
,
Natalie Clein
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Early life and education
Clein started playing the cello at the age of six, and attended Ta ...
,
Sol Gabetta
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Gabetta began to learn violin at ...
,
Arto Noras
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At the age of 8, Arto Noras started ...
and
Yo-Yo Ma
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; Vocalists included
Marian Anderson
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,
José Carreras
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,
Régine Crespin
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,
Plácido Domingo
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,
Luciano Pavarotti
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,
Samuel Ramey
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At the height of his career, he was greatly admired for his range and versatility, having possessed a sufficiently accomplished bel canto technique to enable him to sing t ...
,
Jose Van Dam and
Frederica von Stade
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; Guitarists included
Paco de Lucía
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and
Narciso Yepes
Narciso Yepes (14 November 19273 May 1997) was a Spanish guitarist. He is considered one of the finest virtuoso classical guitarists of the twentieth century.
Biography
Yepes was born into a family of humble origin in Lorca, Region of Murcia. ...
. The orchestra also played with harpist
Nicanor Zabaleta
Nicanor Zabaleta (January 7, 1907 – April 1, 1993) was a Spanish harpist.
Zabaleta was born in San Sebastián, Spain, on January 7, 1907. In 1914 his father, an amateur musician, bought him a harp in an antique shop. He soon began taking ...
, clarinetist
Wenzel Fuchs
Wenzel Fuchs (born 1963 in Innsbruck, Austria) is an Austrian clarinetist.
He studied clarinet at the Innsbruck Conservatory with Walter Kefer and at the Vienna Music Academy with Peter Schmidl. He has performed with the Vienna State Opera, the Vi ...
, horn player
Radovan Vlatkovic
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, trombonist
Jesper Busk Sørensen, flutist
Sharon Bezaly
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and bandoneonist
Ástor Piazzolla
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, among others.
Among the conductors that have worked with the orchestra, including already cited
Herbert von Karajan
Herbert von Karajan (; born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, wit ...
, are
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler ( , , ; 25 January 188630 November 1954) was a German conductor and composer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest symphonic and operatic conductors of the 20th century. He was a major ...
,
Sergiu Celibidache
Sergiu Celibidache (; 14 August 1996) was a Romanian conductor, composer, musical theorist, and teacher. Educated in his native Romania, and later in Paris and Berlin, Celibidache's career in music spanned over five decades, including tenures ...
, Sir
Georg Solti
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, Sir
Thomas Beecham
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Charles Dutoit
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,
Lorin Maazel
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Zubin Mehta
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Mehta's father was the foun ...
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Rudolf Kempe
Rudolf Kempe (14 June 1910 – 12 May 1976) was a German conductor.
Biography
Kempe was born in Dresden, where from the age of fourteen he studied at the Dresden State Opera School. He played oboe in the opera orchestra of Dortmund and ...
,
Clemens Krauss
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Krauss was born in Vienna to Clementine Krauss, ...
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Pierre Boulez
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Born in Mont ...
,
Igor Stravinsky
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,
Malcolm Sargent
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,
Antal Doráti
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Biography
Antal Doráti was born in Budapest, where his father Alexander Doráti was a vi ...
,
Ernest Ansermet
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Biography
Ansermet ...
,
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
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,
Eduardo Mata
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Career
Mata was born in Mexico City. He studied guitar privately for three years before enrolling in the National Conservatory of Music. From 1960 to 1963 he ...
,
Aaron Copland
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Krzysztof Penderecki
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,
Karl Richter,
Luis Antonio García Navarro
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Biography
García Navarro was born in Chiva (Spain), and studied in Valencia and the Madrid Royal ...
,
Mikhail Jurowski
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,
José Serebrier
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Early life
Serebrier was born in Montevideo to Russian and Polish parents of Jewish extraction. He fi ...
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Michel Corboz
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Life
Corboz was born in Marsens, Switzerland, and educated in his native canton of Fribourg. He studied vocal performance and composition at the conservatory in Fribourg ...
,
Robert Spano
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Theo Alcántara
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Leopold Hager
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Hager studied piano, organ, harpsichord, conducting, and composition ...
,
Ferdinand Leitner
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He also was a composition student with Robert Kahn. Starting as ...
,
Peter Maag
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Early life
Peter Maag was born on 10 May 1919 in St. Gallen, Switzerland and died on 16 April 2001 in Verona, Italy.
His father, Otto, was a Lutheran minister, ...
,
Igor Markevich
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,
Stanislaw Wislocki,
Jean Fournet
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,
Franz-Paul Decker
Franz-Paul Decker (June 26, 1923 – May 19, 2014) was a German-born conductor.
Life
Decker was born in Cologne, Germany, where he studied at the Hochschule für Musik with Philip Jarnach and Eugen Papst. He made his conducting debut at the ...
,
Eiji Oue
is a Japanese conductor.
Biography
Oue began his conducting studies with Hideo Saito of the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1978, Seiji Ozawa invited him to spend the summer studying at the Tanglewood Music Center. There he met Leonard Bern ...
,
David Lloyd-Jones,
Yuri Simonov
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,
Moshe Atzmon
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He was born Móse Grószberger in Budapest, and at the age of thirteen he emigrated with his family to Tel Aviv, Israel. He started his musical career on the hor ...
,
Serge Baudo
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Baudo was conductor of the Orchestra of Radio Nice from 1959 to 1962. He then served as permanent conducto ...
,
Steuart Bedford
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He was the brother of composer David Bedford and of singer Peter Lehmann Bedford and a grandson of Liza Lehmann and Her ...
, and
Christof Escher, among others. Regarding Argentine conductors, some of the most noteworthy are
Daniel Barenboim
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,
Pedro Ignacio Calderón,
Juan José Castro
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Born in Avellaneda, Castro studied piano and violin under Manuel Posadas and composition under Eduardo Fornarini, in Buenos Aires. In the 1920s he was ...
and
Simón Blech. The orchestra maintains a strong collaboration with conductor
Charles Dutoit
Charles Édouard Dutoit (born 7 October 1936) is a Swiss conductor. He is currently the principal guest conductor for the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia and co-director of thMISA Festival in Shanghai In 2017, he became the 103rd recipient of th ...
, whom they have performed with recently.
Currently, the orchestra is conducted by Mexican conductor
Enrique Diemecke
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. Maestro Diemecke has had earlier success conducting celebrated orchestras, such as the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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The RPO was established by Thomas Beecham in 1946. In its early days, the orchestra secured profitable ...
of London, the
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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, the
Orchestre National de France
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and the
Los Angeles Philharmonic
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.
Tours
The Buenos Aires Philharmonic has had three successful tours of special relevance: in 1992, 1994 and 1996. These tours have included stops in Germany, England, Spain, France, Greece, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium and Austria, and has performed in such prestigious venues as the
Berliner Philharmonie
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The Philharmonie lies on the south edge of the city's Tiergarten and just west of the former Berlin Wall. The Philharmonie is on ...
, the
Barbican Centre
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in London (one of the most famous cultural centers in Europe, also home to the
London Symphony Orchestra
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), and the
Concertgebouw
The Royal Concertgebouw ( nl, Koninklijk Concertgebouw, ) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" translates into English as "concert building". Its superb acoustics place it among the finest concert halls i ...
of
Amsterdam
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(home to the
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra ( nl, Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest, ) is a Dutch symphony orchestra, based at the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw (concert hall). Considered one of the world's leading orchestras, Queen Beatrix conferred the "R ...
of Amsterdam). The orchestra frequently tours nationally and in the surrounding countries of
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
,
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
, and
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
.
See also
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Argentine National Symphony Orchestra
External links
Unofficial website of the Buenos Aires PhilharmonicOfficial website of the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires)
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Musical groups established in 1946
Symphony orchestras
Argentine orchestras
Culture in Buenos Aires