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Alan Gilbert
Birth at
23 February 1967
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Alan Gilbert is an American violinist and conductor. He was born in a family of violin musicians and, under the influence of his parents, connected his fate with music. Alan was born in New York on February 23, 1967, to a half-Japanese family (his mother is Japanese). In his youth he learned to play several musical instruments at once - viola, piano and violin, in the 1980s he studied music at Harvard. Then there was the excellent violin school at the Boston Conservatory of New England and the conducting
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Alan Gilbert is an American violinist and conductor. He was born in a family of violin musicians and, under the influence of his parents, connected his fate with music.
Alan was born in New York on February 23, 1967, to a half-Japanese family (his mother is Japanese). In his youth he learned to play several musical instruments at once - viola, piano and violin, in the 1980s he studied music at Harvard. Then there was the excellent violin school at the Boston Conservatory of New England and the conducting school at the prestigious Philadelphia Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School.
Beginning in 1994, Alan began to conquer the international stage, winning a competition of performers in Geneva and thereby making himself known. In 1995, he became an assistant conductor at the Cleveland Orchestra, where he worked until 1997, when he won the Seaver Award given to conductors in the United States.
Even earlier, in 1993, when he was serving as an assistant concertmaster, he began his collaboration with the opera Santa Fe, from 2003 to May 2007 he was the musical director of this opera. He often collaborates with the New York Philharmonic as an active promoter of modern and American music. He works as a guest conductor in the world’s leading orchestras.