Irwin Hoffman

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Irwin Hoffman (born 26 November 1924) is an American conductor, born in New York. He was a protégé of Serge Koussevitsky. He conducted the Vancouver Symphony from 1952 to 1964, after which he became Associate Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was Acting Music Director of the Chicago Symphony for one year, from 1968 to 1969. He became the first music director of the Florida Orchestra (then the Florida Gulf Coast Symphony) in 1968. He is now Music Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá, Colombia.

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Preceded by unknown	Music Director, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra 1952–1963	Succeeded by Meredith Davies
Preceded by (no predecessor)	Music Director, Florida Orchestra 1968–1988	Succeeded by Jahja Ling

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Theodore Thomas (1891) Frederick Stock (1905) Désiré Defauw (1943) Artur Rodziński (1947) Rafael Kubelík (1950) Fritz Reiner (1953) Jean Martinon (1963) Irwin Hoffman (1968) Georg Solti (1969) Daniel Barenboim (1991) Riccardo Muti (2010)

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Name	Hoffman, Irwin
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Short description	American conductor
Date of birth	26 November 1924
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