Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (born 26 January 1981) is a

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conductor and

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ist who is the music director of the

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, the

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, and the

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Early life

Dudamel was born in

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, the son of a trombonist and a voice teacher. He studied music from an early age, becoming involved with

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, the famous Venezuelan musical education program, and took up the

at age ten. He soon began to study

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. He attended the Jacinto Lara Conservatory, where José Luis Jiménez was among his violin teachers. He then went on to work with José Francisco del Castillo at the Latin-American Violin Academy. Dudamel began to study conducting in 1995, first with

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, then later with

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. In 1999, he was appointed music director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar, the national youth orchestra of Venezuela, and toured several countries. He attended

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's master class in Buenos Aires in 2002, and worked as assistant for

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in Berlin and Salzburg in 2003.

Career

Conducting

Dudamel won a number of competitions, including the

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in Germany in 2004. His reputation began to spread, attracting the attention of conductors such as

and

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, who accepted invitations to conduct the Simón Bolívar Orchestra in Veneite. In April 2006 Dudamel was appointed as principal conductor of the

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for the 2007/2008 season. Dudamel made his debut at

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, with ''

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'' in November 2006. On 10 September 2007, he conducted the

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for the first time at the

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. On 16 April 2007 he conducted the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Vatican's

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in a concert in commemoration of the 80th birthday of

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, with

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as solo violinist, with the Pope and many other Church dignitaries among the audience. In 2011, he featured in the documentary ''Dudamel, Let the Children Play'' directed by the Venezuelan filmmaker Alberto Arvelo. In 2013, Dudamel conducted the

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during the funeral of Venezuelan President

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. Dudamel continues to retain his position with the Simón Bolívar National Youth Orchestra. In April 2014 Dudamel returned to conduct with

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, as its honorary conductor, for concerts in the orchestra's home city and on tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy. In 2015, Dudamel conducted both the opening and end titles, at the behest of famed film composer

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, for the official motion picture soundtrack and film of '' Star Wars: The Force Awakens''. At the 2016

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, Dudamel and Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) accompanied

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and sang along with

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and

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. On 1 January 2017, Dudamel conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in their traditional New Year's Day Concert; at the age of only 35, he is the youngest guest conductor in history to lead this event. In December 2018, he made his debut at the

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in New York City, conducting Verdi's ''

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''. Dudamel served as the 2018–2019 artist-in-residence at

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in celebration of Princeton University Concerts' 125th anniversary. This engagement included cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural panels & discussions, chamber concerts featuring musicians from his associated orchestras (the Met, LA, & Berlin), and in April 2019, Dudamel conducted the

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and the Princeton University Glee Club as the culmination of his year-long residency. In the Summer of 2019, Dudamel conducted the orchestra during the recording sessions for

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of ''

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'', set for release on 10 December 2021. Dudamel first guest-conducted at the

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in 2017. In April 2021, the Opéra National de Paris announced the appointment of Dudamel as its next music director, effective 1 August 2021, with an initial contract of six seasons.

Music director, Los Angeles Philharmonic

Dudamel made his US conducting debut with the

(LAP) at the

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on 13 September 2005 in a program consisting of " La Noche de los Mayas" by

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and

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's Symphony No. 5. Dudamel was subsequently invited back to conduct the orchestra at

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in January 2007 in performances of " Dances of Galánta" by

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, the third piano concerto of

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with

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as soloist, and

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's Concerto for Orchestra (the latter of which was recorded live and subsequently released by

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). In April 2007, the LAP announced the appointment of Dudamel as its next music director, effective with the 2009–2010 season. His initial contract in Los Angeles was for five years, beginning in September 2009. In February 2011, the orchestra announced the extension of Dudamel's contract through the end of the 2018–2019 season. In March 2015, the orchestra announced a further extension of his Los Angeles Philharmonic contract through the 2021–2022 season. His most recent LAP contract extension, announced in January 2020, is through the 2025-2026 season.

Awards and media

Dudamel is featured in the documentary film ''Tocar y Luchar'', which covers

. Dudamel and the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar received the WQXR Gramophone Special Recognition Award in New York City in November 2007. Another US television news feature on Dudamel was on ''

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'' in February 2008, entitled "Gustavo the Great." On 23 July 2009, Dudamel was selected by the Eighth

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laureate

as winner of the prestigious The City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize. Dudamel was named one of Times Magazine’s most influential 100 people in 2010. Dudamel is featured in the 2011 documentary ''Let the Children Play'', a film which focuses on his work advocating for music as a way to enrich children's lives. '' Gramophone'' named Dudamel its 2011 Gramophone Artist of the Year. Also in 2011, he was inducted into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In February 2012, Dudamel won a

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for Best Orchestral Performance, for his recording of

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Symphony No. 4 for the label

. In 2013, Dudamel was named Musical America's Musician of the Year and was inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame. The LAP's continued commitment to innovation and new music under the direction of Dudamel and Borda prompted ''

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'' critic

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to name LAP "the most creative, and, therefore, the best orchestra in America." Dudamel received the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society from the Longy School in 2014 and the Americas Society Cultural Achievement Award in 2016. The character of Rodrigo in Amazon's ''

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'' was based, in part, on Dudamel. Rodrigo is also curly-haired, Latin American, very young, and usually referred to only by his first name. In the first episode of the show's second season, in which Rodrigo appears as a guest conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dudamel appears as a guest actor, playing the part of a stage manager. In June 2018, Dudamel received Chile's

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. Also in June, the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA) awarded Dudamel the

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2018. Dudamel is featured as the name of an achievement in the game A Rite from the Stars, released on 19 July 2018. The player gets it for solving a music puzzle in less than 14 seconds. In August 2018, Dudamel announced plans for the LA Phil's 2018/2019 centennial season, including an unprecedented 50 commissions of new music and a

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-designed permanent home for Dudamel's YOLA youth orchestra. On 18 October 2018, it was announced that Dudamel would become the 25th recipient of the

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He received a star on the

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on 22 January 2019. In his speech accepting it, he said that it should belong to Venezuela, the country he is from, and that "tomorrow 3 Jan. 2019is a crucial day ndthe voice of the masses must be heard and respected", referring to the planned national protest on that date and the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis. At the

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the

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was given to the Dudamel-conducted 2019 recording of

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Personal life

udamel has been married twice. His first marriage, in 2006, was to Eloísa Maturén in Caracas. Maturén, also a Venezuelan native, is a classically trained ballet dancer and a journalist. The two had a son, Martín Dudamel Maturén, on 1 April 2011. In March 2015, Dudamel and Maturén filed papers for divorce. In February 2017, Dudamel secretly married Spanish actress

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, whom he had first met in 2016, in

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. He became a Spanish citizen in 2018.

Discography

2006 *

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: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 / the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of VenezuelaCD 2007 * Birthday Concert for

[w/

& the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart] DVD *

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: Symphony No. 5 [w/ the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela] CD * Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra [w/ the

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: Symphony No. 1 (From the Inaugural Concert) / the Los Angeles PhilharmonicDigital Download only * Discoveries / the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of VenezuelaCD * Live from Salzburg / the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of VenezuelaDVD *

: Symphony No. 5; Francesca da Rimini / the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of VenezuelaCD * Piotr Anderszewski: Voyageur intranquille; a film by

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. Credited: with the artistic participation of

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: ''Double Piano Concerto'' / Katia and Marielle Labeque (Piano),

] Only at iTunes *

: Star Wars: The Force Awakens. pecial guest conductor for four tacksCD, DVD, Blu-ray, Digital Download 2017 * New Year Concert [w/

] CDs and Digital download. 2018 * ''The Nutcracker and the Four Realms'' original soundtrack CD and Digital Download 2022 * '' Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9'' w/

Digital Download

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dudamel, Gustavo 1981 births Living people 21st-century conductors (music) Venezuelan conductors (music) Male conductors (music) Venezuelan classical musicians People from Barquisimeto Deutsche Grammophon artists Grammy Award winners Venezuelan expatriates in the United States City of Toronto's Glenn Gould Protégé Prize winners Naturalised citizens of Spain 21st-century male musicians