David Robertson

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David Robertson [1] (born 1958 in Santa Monica, California, USA) is the Music Director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and is the Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, both since 2005. He was born in Santa Monica, California and studied horn, composition, and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London. From 1985-1987, he was the resident conductor of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

A protégé of Pierre Boulez, Robertson served as Music Director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris from 1992-2000. Immediately prior to his tenure with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, from 2000-2004, Robertson was the first individual to serve simultaneously as Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon and Artistic Director of Lyon's Auditorium. He was one of Carnegie Hall's Perspectives artists for the 2005-2006 season. He received the 2006 Ditson Award from Columbia University for his championing of American music. Robertson has recorded for the harmonia mundi, Sony Classical, and Naxos labels music of composers such as Bartók, Dvorák, Valentin Silvestrov, and Philippe Manoury.

He maintains a loft in downtown St. Louis, and also has apartments in New York City and Paris. He has two teenage sons from his second marriage, and is married to pianist Orli Shaham. Robertson and Shaham first met when he was a guest conductor and she was a guest pianist in their joint St. Louis debut in January 1999. They married in January 2003.

In September 2006, the SLSO announced that Robertson extended his contract with the orchestra through 2010, with an evergreen clause to allow for yearly renewal. Robertson has also extended his Principal Guest Conductorship with the BBC Symphony Orchestra through 2011. Speculation had been intense, as reported by John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune, Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times, and Daniel Wakin of the New York Times that both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic were both trying to sign Robertson, respectively, as the next music director of each orchestra. St. Louis's contract extensions ended the speculation relating to the Chicago position, at least through 2010.

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Preceded by:
Peter Eötvös		 Music Director, Ensemble InterContemporain
1992–1999		 Succeeded by:
Jonathan Nott
Preceded by:
Emmanuel Krivine		 Music Director, Orchestre National de Lyon
2000–2004		 Succeeded by:
Jun Märkl
Preceded by:
Hans Vonk		 Music Director, St Louis Symphony Orchestra
2005–		 Succeeded by:
incumbent
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