Jeffrey Tate - Conductor
Biography
Originally, Jeffrey Tate studied medicine at the University of Cambridge and then started his artistic career by joining the music staff at Covent Garden. He assisted Pierre Boulez in the centenary Ring at Bayreuth Festival.
After his public debut with Carmen at Gothenburg Opera, he rapidly rose to international prominence. Jeffrey Tate conducts regularly in the world's leading opera houses and festivals. His new productions of the Ring in Paris (with Orchestre National de France) and Cologne have been internationally acclaimed, and the Paris Ring was also presented at the Australian Opera in Adelaide (as an Australian premiere).
In Paris, Jeffrey Tate conducted Lulu and Peter Grimes at the Châtelet, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and Wozzeck at Bastille Opera, and he re-opened the Palais Garnier with Così fan tutte. He made his triumphant debut at La Scala Milan with Peter Grimes, followed by Der Rosenkavalier, Tannhäuser and Ariadne auf Naxos. At the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, he conducted new productions of Idomeneo, Manon, Così fan tutte and Capriccio as well as revivals of Fidelio, Carmen, Lohengrin and Les Contes d’Hoffmann; at the Metropolitan Opera New York a diverse repertoire from Don Giovanni through Lulu to Mahagonny; Parsifal in Bonn and Australia; Orpheus, Lulu, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Turn of the Screw and Ariadne auf Naxos in Geneva; The Valkyrie and Siegfried at La Fenice/Venice.
Jeffrey Tate is Music Director at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples where he conducted new productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, The Valkyrie, Die Königskinder (Humperdinck), Falstaff, Candide, L’Enfang et les Sortilèges, Peter Grimes and numerous concerts.
He has been nominated Chief Conductor of the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra as from season 2009/10.
Orchestras he has conducted include: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Torino (as Direttore Onorario), London Symphony, Berlin Philharmonics, Dresdner Philharmonie, Royal Stockholm Philharmonics, Danish Radio Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonics, Mozarteum Salzburg, Maggio Musicale Florence, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome, Orchestre de Paris, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Melbourne, Sydney and West Australian Symphony, and many others.
Future projects include a.o.: La Clemenza di Tito at Teatro San Carlo Naples, Götterdämmerung and Rheingold at La Fenice,Venice, Billy Budd at the Bastille in Paris, Rosenkavalier at Teatro Real, Madrid and Ariadne auf Naxos, Don Giovanni and Rosenkavalier at Vienna State Oper, as well as concerts with various orchestras (e.g. Orchestra della RAI Torino, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestra della Toscana Florence and Tonkünstlerorchester Niederösterreich).
Out of various recordings, a few productions should be mentioned: Arabella, Hänsel und Gretel, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Lulu, Mozart’s piano concerti with Mitsuko Ushida, all the Mozart symphonies with the English Chamber Orchestra, the major orchestral works of Edward Elgar with the London Symphony Orchestra and the complete Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mendelssohn with the Rotterdam Philharmonics.
In 2001, Jeffrey Tate was awarded with the “Franco Abbiati” prize for his work with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI and named ‘Direttore Onorario’; and with the “Franco Abbiati 2002” prize of the Italian music critics for his production of Die Königskinder by E. Humperdinck at Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
Jeffrey Tate has been named "Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur", "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" as well as "C.B.E./ Commander of the British Empire".
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