Star maestro Gustavo Dudamel announced as music director of New York Philharmonic.
The Venezuelan maestro will take to the helm of America’s oldest symphony orchestra, following in the footsteps of Leonard Bernstein and Gustav Mahler.
*Dudamel will be music and artistic director of the orchestra, and will also remain music director of the Paris Opera and of Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.
Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the New York Philharmonic, after a long and successful tenure at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Founded in 1842, the New York Phil is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States and has enjoyed eminent names at its helm from Gustav Mahler and Leonard Bernstein to Arturo Toscanini. In 2026, Dudamel will become the orchestra’s first Hispanic leader. . .
Dudamel will be music director designate in the 2025-26 season, and will then become the orchestra’s 27th music director in the 2026-7 season, with a five-year initial contract. He will succeed Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden who said in September 2021 that he would leave the orchestra after the 2023-24 season following a six-year tenure.
It’s a second major signing for the maestro by the chief executive of the New York Phil, Deborah Borda, who first signed a 26-year-old Dudamel to the LA Philharmonic.
Recalling the first day she tried to book him for the LA Phil, Borda told AP: “I hadn’t seen a conductor like this since Bernstein.”
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