David Gilbert is music director of the Greenwich Symphony, the Bergen Philharmonic, and the Senior Concert Orchestra of New York. Mr. Gilbert previously served as principal conductor of American Ballet Theatre and has been a guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic. In 1980, he was invited by the Chinese government to spend two seasons as principal guest conductor and music advisor of the Center Philharmonic in Beijing, the first American to hold such as a high musical post. After being named the first-prize winner in the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Competition for Conductors, Mr. Gilbert served as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic from 1970-1979 and was selected by Pierre Boulez to be chief assistant conductor of the 1976 Bayreuth Festival. He has also guest conducted such ensembles as the Pittsburgh, Rochester, New Jersey, Nashville, Oakland, and Louisville symphonies—as well as the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Pro Arte of Boston—not to mention numerous ensembles in Korea, China, and Europe. In July 2000, at the request of Solomon Mikowsky, Mr. Gilbert conducted three concerts at the International Piano Festival in Tenerife, Canary Islands.
For the Manhattan School of Music Opera Theater, he has led productions that have included the New York premieres of Shostakovich’s The Nose and Hans Werner Henze’s The English Cat, as well as Hugo Weisgall’s Six Characters in Search of An Author, Emmanuel Chabrier’s Une Éducation manquée, Ned Rorem’s Miss Julie (released as a CD on the Newport Classics label), a double bill of Arlecchino and Le Rossignol, Albert Herring (released as a CD on the Vox label), William Mayer’s A Death in the Family (released as a CD on the Albany label), and the world premiere of Scott Eyerly’s The House of the Seven Gables (released as a CD on the Newport Classics label).
David Gilbert has been on the faculty of Manhattan School of Music, where he currently holds the title of resident conductor, since 1983. |
