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JAMES JUDD
British conductor James Judd's music directorships have included Principal
Guest Conductor of the Orchestre National de Lille in France and a
groundbreaking 14 years as Music Director of the Florida Philharmonic
Orchestra. During his eight years as Music Director of the New Zealand
Symphony, Judd garnered acclaim for his recordings with the orchestra,
including works by Copland, Bernstein, Vaughan Williams, Gershwin and many
others.
He brought the orchestra to international renown through
appearances at many festivals, and led the orchestra on its first tour of the
major concert halls of Europe, culminating with the BBC Proms and the
Concertgebouw.
James Judd’s live recordings of Mahler’s Symphonies No. 9 with the Gustav
Mahler Youth Orchestra and No. 10 with the European Community Youth
Orchestra were enthusiastically received, and his performance of Elgar’s
Symphony No. 1 with the Hallé Orchestra is still a highly-regarded reference
standard among conductors today. The most recent addition to his
discography is a recording with pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic on the Decca label.
Mr. Judd came to international attention as the assistant conductor of the
Cleveland Orchestra at the invitation of Lorin Maazel. Four years later, he
returned to Europe after being appointed Associate Music Director of the
European Community Youth Orchestra by Claudio Abbado, an ensemble
which he continues to serve as honorary Artistic Director.
Since that time, James Judd has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic and the
Israel Philharmonic, conducted in the great halls of Europe including the
Salzburg Mozarteum and Vienna’s Musikverein, and made guest appearances
with such prestigious ensembles as the Vienna Symphony, Gewandhaus
Orchester Leipzig, Prague Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre
de la Suisse Romande, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Monte Carlo Symphony
Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, the Flemish Radio
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Orchestra, and the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg. In the Far East he works
regularly with Tokyo's NHK Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic.
Dedication to the development of young musicians and a passionate belief in
the transformative power of music have inspired James Judd to make an
important place in his life for this work. Since 2007 he has been Principal Guest
Conductor of the Asian Youth Orchestra, an ensemble of the most gifted
musicians from mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam,
Taiwan, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Korea. For more than twenty
years the AYO has brought these young musicians across political, social and
religious boundaries to perform with some of the finest conductors and soloists
in the world. His highly successful Miami Music Project, which he founded in
2008, uses music on El Sistema lines as an instrument for social transformation,
enabling children to achieve their full potential while positively influencing their
society through the study and performance of music.
James Judd is the co-founder of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, which he
led on tours throughout the United States, the Far East and Europe. In North
and South America he is a frequent and much admired guest conductor,
having appeared with the orchestras of St. Louis, Montreal, Baltimore,
Cincinnatti, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Seattle, Indianapolis, Utah, Rio de Janeiro and
Sao Paulo.
His recent performances of Holst's 'The Planets' with the Concertgebouw
Orchestra in Amsterdam, where he replaced Mariss Jansons at short notice,
brought standing ovations. Highlights of the 2011/12 season included concerts
with the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia with Evgeny Kissin as
soloist, the Hungarian National Orchestra, the Beijing Symphony with Vadim
Repin and the Vienna Symphony with performances of Elgar's oratorio 'The
Dream of Gerontius'.
Last season featured concerts with the Japan Virtuoso Symphony Orchestra
and with the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra in Tokyo's Suntory Hall, and
concerts in cities as diverse as Puerto Rico, Tel Aviv, Melbourne and Taipei. The
summer began with James Judd at the Istanbul Festival with the Deutsche
Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, and opening the Féstival de Radio France in
Montpellier with Leonard Bernstein's 'Mass', prior to touring Asia with his Asian
Youth Orchestra. He conducted Britten's 'War Requiem' at the Enescu Festival
in Bucharest. James Judd recently became Music Director of New York's Little
Orchestra Society, an organisation renowned for its unconventional and
innovative programming, with which he has had great success in their series at
Lincoln Center and elsewhere.
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