Hobart Earle (born December 20, 1960) is a Venezuelan-born conductor of American descent and

People's Artist of Ukraine People's Artist of Ukraine is an honorary and the highest title awarding to outstanding performing artists whose merits are exceptional in the sphere of the development of the performing arts (theatre, music, dance, circus, cinema, etc.). Estab ...

recipient.

Education

Hobart Earle was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. He attended

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School in Scotland and

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

in New Jersey. He also attended the

University of Music and Performing Arts The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (german: link=no, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university located in Vienna, established in 1817. With a student body of over three thousa ...

in Vienna, Austria. At Princeton, he studied composition and music theory with Milton Babbitt,

Edward Cone Edward Toner Cone (May 4, 1917 – October 23, 2004) was an American composer, music theorist, pianist, and philanthropist. Life and career Cone was born in Greensboro, North Carolina. He studied composition under Roger Sessions at Prince ...

Claudio Spies Carlos Claudio Spies (March 26, 1925 – April 2, 2020) was a Chilean-American composer. Biography Early life Born in Santiago, Chile, of German Jewish parents, Spies completed primary and secondary education in Santiago in 1941, when he p ...

, and Paul Lansky. During his years in Vienna he was a member of the Vienna Singverein, and took part in performances and recordings under

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 ...

, Lorin Maazel and many others. Earle speaks seven languages.

Conductor

Earle became well known for conducting the Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra at the

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. He elevated the orchestra to a position of international prominence, appearing in such concert halls in Europe as London's Barbican Centre, the

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in Bonn, Philharmonie in Cologne,

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of Budapest,

Vienna Musikverein The ( or ; ), commonly shortened to , is a concert hall in Vienna, Austria, which is located in the Innere Stadt district. The building opened in 1870 and is the home of the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra. The acoustics of the building's 'Gre ...

, National Auditorium of Madrid the Great Halls of both

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and Saint Petersburg Conservatories and in the United States at the

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in Washington, DC, Carnegie Hall in New York, Chicago's

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, Davies Hall in San Francisco and the

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. As a guest conductor, he appeared with such as orchestras in Europe as Vienna Chamber and

Tonkünstler Orchestra The Tonkunstler Orchestra (German: ''Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich'', ) is an Austrian orchestra based in Vienna and Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria. Origin of the name The orchestra's name has its origins in the ''Tonkünstler-Soziet� ...

, the Noord Nederlands Orkest in the

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, the Krakow Philharmonic and Sinfonia Iuventus in Poland, the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa and Athens State Symphony, Orchestra della Toscana and Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Italy, the Odense Symfoniorkester in Denmark, and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. In the United States, he has led such orchestras as Buffalo and Florida Philharmonics, the Orchestra Nova San Diego and

North Carolina Symphony The North Carolina Symphony (NCS) is an American orchestra based in Raleigh, North Carolina, with sixty-six full-time musicians. The orchestra performs in Meymandi Concert Hall and performs occasionally with the Carolina Ballet and the Opera Com ...

and in Russia, the Russian State Symphony Orchestra ('Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra'), the 'Novaya Rossiya' State Symphony Orchestra, the

Russian National Orchestra The Russian National Orchestra (russian: Российский национальный оркестр) was founded in Moscow in 1990 by pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev. It was the first Russian orchestra to perform at the Apostolic Palace, ...

, the

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and the

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, as well as at the

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in St. Petersburg. ref name=odessaphilharmonic> In Asia, he has been a guest of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the

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, and the Southeast Asian Youth Orchestra. Despite Earle's broad success with elevating the quality level of the Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra, he has publicly criticized the local government for its lack of support. In an interview with Vladislav Davidzon, editor of ''

The Odessa Review ''The Odessa Review'' was a print English language cultural magazine founded and named after the Ukrainian city of Odesa that existed between 2016 and 2019. Based for most of its history in Odesa, the magazine's office moved to Kyiv in 2018. Magaz ...

'', he explained that the orchestra was forced to be self-sufficient in the face of a lack of support: "We even did dental work for wind players so that they could continue to play fifteen years ago. It turned out to be a very important issue, I had one horn player who had a number of teeth pulled by an idiot dentist and so he could not put his dentures in and was completely unable to play. We were very fortunate and found a French-Swiss dentist who told us he could fix this. Our man is still playing the horn, his son is our principal horn player. While we were at it, we decided to do the same for all the other wind players as they all had serious dental issues." His festival credits include the

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, and Lugano Spring Festivals as well as

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and Nuits Musicales du Suquet in

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, among others. At the

Greek National Opera The Greek National Opera ( el, Εθνική Λυρική Σκηνή, ''Ethniki Lyriki Skini'') is the country's state lyric opera company, located in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center at the south suburb of Athens, Kallithea. It is a ...

in Athens, he conducted new productions of

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and

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. While conducting the

State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Russian Federation The State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov" (Государственный академический симфонический оркестр России имени Е. Ф. Светланова) is a Russian orchestra based in Mo ...

in Moscow he received a message on June 27, 2013 that the President of Ukraine had signed a decree naming him

. Thereafter he had an interview with Kyivan American Embassy where he talked about his friendship with

Bohdan Stupka Bohdan Sylvestrovych Stupka ( uk, Богдан Сильвестрович Ступка; 27 August 1941 – 22 July 2012) was a popular Ukrainian actor and the minister of culture of Ukraine. He was born in Kulykiv, General Government to Ukrainian ...

Recordings

He has recorded works by such composers as

Mykola Kolessa Mykola Filaretovich Kolessa (6 December 1903 – 8 June 2006) was a Ukrainian composer and conductor, born in Sambir near Lviv. His father Filaret was a Ukrainian ethnomusicologist and composer and his cousin was the pianist Lubka Kolessa. ...

Myroslav Skoryk Myroslav Mykhailovych Skoryk ( uk, Мирослав Михайлович Скорик; 13 July 1938 – 1 June 2020) was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains idioms from diverse sources including G ...

Yevhen Stankovych Yevhen Fedorovych Stankovych ( uk, Євге́н Фе́дорович Станко́вич; born September 19, 1942) is a contemporary Ukrainian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, and choral works. Biography Stankovych was born in Szolyva ( ...

and Reinhold Gliere that were not previously recorded. He also conducted world premiere recordings of compositions by Henry Gilbert,

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, and Igor Raykhelson. His recordings were released on such labels as

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, Albany, ASV Records and

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. Earle's performance of Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony, recorded live in concert by Austrian broadcaster

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in Vienna's Musikverein, was awarded

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in California in 2002, and his live recording of Myroslav Skoryk's 75th birthday concerts was selected for the "Chairman's Choice 2014 –

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Releases."

Awards

In 2003, in conjunction with leading newspapers in Ukraine, the Russian Cosmonaut Association named a star in the

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as "Hobart Earle". Earle was named one of 30 "Professionals of the Year" by

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in 2014.

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