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About Us ~ Bruno Weil, Music Director and Conductor

Bruno Weil has been Music Director and Conductor of the Carmel Bach Festival since 1992. An artist of increasing international reknown, he was named "1997 Conductor of the Year" by the European recording industry.

A protege of Herbert von Karajan, and master student of Franco Ferrara and Hans Swarowsky, Weil regularly leads major international festivals, orchestras, and opera companies. He has won great critical acclaim on the podiums of the Salzburg Festival, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, NHK Orchestra Tokyo, Sydney Symphony, Staatskapelle Dresden, L'Orchestre National de France, L'Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Los Angeles Philharmonic, The English Chamber Orchestra, and Toronto's Tafelmusik. Maestro Weil also has conducted at the German Opera Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera, Dresden's Semper Opera, Teatro Communale di Bologna, and the Vienna State Opera. He made his Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut in 1992, for Cosi fan tutte.

Bruno Weil records exclusively for SONY Classical. He is considered the world's leading interpreter of Haydn symphonies; Haydn is represented in many of the 22 recordings currently in release. The close and fertile collaboration with Tafelmusik spawned numerous recordings as well. In 1996, Bruno won the prestigious Cannes Classical Award for Best Orchestral Recording--17th and 18th Century--for his CD of Haydn's "Paris Symphonies".

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