Conductor

Lawrence Foster

Artistic Director and Chief Conductor: Gulbenkian Orchestra
Music Director:Orchestre et Opéra National de Montpellier (from 2009/10)

Now in his fourth season as Music Director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, Lawrence Foster is one of the few successful American conductors to win acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.

Highlights of this and future seasons include concerts with Orchestre National de Lyon, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Helsinki Philharmonic, RAI Turin, Leipzig Gewandhaus, BBC Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony and NDR Hamburg. Additionally, Lawrence Foster will also conduct a Schumann Symphony cycle with the Czech Philharmonic in 2007/08, which will be recorded for Pentatone.

Lawrence Foster’s discography includes Enescu's Oedipe with Jose can Dam and Barbara Hendricks, which won the Grand Prix du Disque from the Academie Charles Cros. His most recent recording, released in 2005 by EMI to celebrate the Enescu anniversary, is a boxed set of works by Enescu recorded by various orchestras, which includes Symphony No.3 and Vox Maris with Orchestre National de Lyon.

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