Jesús López-Cobos

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is López and the second or maternal family name is Cobos.

Jesús López-Cobos (born 25 February 1940) is a Spanish conductor.

López-Cobos was born in Toro, Zamora, Castile-León, Spain. He studied at Complutense University of Madrid and graduated with a degree in philosophy. Later he studied conducting with Franco Ferrara and with Hans Swarowsky at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

From 1981 to 1990 he was general music director of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and from 1984 to 1988 he was music director of the Orquesta Nacional de España. From 1986 to 2000 he served as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and from 1990 to 2000 he was principal conductor of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. From 2003 to 2010 he has been music director of the Teatro Real in Madrid.^[1]

He is a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.^[2]

References

↑ Aurora Intxausti, Borja Hermoso (September 9, 2008). "López Cobos, adiós al Teatro Real". El País. Retrieved 11 September 2008. "In 2009 [he] conducted the new production of Thaïs at the Metropolitan Opera with Renée Fleming."
↑ Delta Omicron

Cultural offices
Preceded by Antoni Ros-Marbà	Principal Conductor, Orquesta Nacional de España 1984–1989	Succeeded by Aldo Ceccato
Preceded by Lawrence Foster	Artistic Director, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne 1990–2000	Succeeded by Christian Zacharias
Preceded by Luis Antonio García Navarro (1997–2001)	Music Director of the Teatro Real 2003–2010	Succeeded by ?

v t e Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Music Directors

Frank Van der Stucken (1895) Leopold Stokowski (1909) Ernst Kunwald (1912) Eugène Ysaÿe (1918) Fritz Reiner (1922) Eugène Goossens (1931) Thor Johnson (1947) Max Rudolf (1958) Thomas Schippers (1970) Walter Susskind (1978) Michael Gielen (1980) Jesús López-Cobos (1986) Paavo Järvi (2001) Louis Langrée (2013)

v t e Spanish National Orchestra principal conductors

Bartolomé Pérez Casas (1942-1947) Ataúlfo Argenta (1947-1958) Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos (1962-1978) Antoni Ros-Marbà (1978-1981) Jesús López-Cobos (1984-1989) Aldo Ceccato (1991-1994) Josep Pons (2003)

v t e Madrid Symphony Orchestra principal conductors

Alonso Cordelás (1903-1904) Enrique Fernández Arbós (1905-1939) Enrique Jordá (1939-1945) Conrado del Campo (1946-1950) José María Franco (1951-1958) Vicente Spiteri (1958-1977) Luis Antonio García Navarro (1999-2001) Jesús López-Cobos (2002-2010)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 90606654 LCCN: n82032321 ISNI: 0000 0001 1451 5580 GND: 123792045 BNF: cb13896785d

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.