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Title: Australian Orchestras and their Principal Conductors
Post by: Dundonnell on October 11, 2015, 10:35:31 pm
No. 12 of series.

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra(1949; South Australian Symphony Orchestra until 1975):

Henry Krips:                 1949-1972
Elyakum Shapirra:       1975-1977
Piero Gamba:                1983-1985
Albert Rosen:                1986
Nicholas Braithwaite: 1987-1991
David Porcelijn:           1993-1998
Arvo Volmer:               2004-2013


Melbourne Symphony Orchestra(1906):   

Alberto Zelman:        1906-1927
Fritz Hart:                   1927-1937
Sir Bernard Heinze:  1932-1950
Alceo Galliera:            1950-1951
Juan Jose Castro:      1952-1953
Walter Susskind:        1953-1955
Kurt Wӧss:                   1956-1959
Georges Tzipine:        1960-1965
Willem van Otterloo:1967-1970
Fritz Rieger:                 1971-1972
Hiroyuki Iwaki:           1974-1997
Markus Stenz:             1998-2004
Oleg Caetani:              2005-2009
Sir Andrew Davis:      2013-


Queensland Symphony Orchestra(1947; Queensland Orchestra from 2001 until 2009):

John Farnsworth Hall:   1947-1954
Rudolf Pekarek:               1954-1967
Stanford Robinson:         1968-1969
Ezra Rachlin:                    1970-1972
Patrick Thomas:              1973-1977
Vanco Cavdarski:           1978-1982
Werner Andreas Albert:1983-1990
Muhai Tang:                     1991-2001
Michael Christie:             2001-2004
Johannes Fritzsch:         2008-2014


Sydney Symphony Orchestra(1932; National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra until 1946):      

Sir Eugene Goossens:   1947-1956
Nikolai Malko:                 1957-1961
Dean Dixon:                    1964-1967
Moshe Atzmon:              1967-1971
Willem van Otterloo:     1971-1978
Louis Fremaux:              1979-1982
Sir Charles Mackerras: 1982-1985
Zdenek Macal:                1986
Stuart Challender:         1987-1991
Edo De Waart:                1993-2003
Gianluigi Gelmetti:        2004-2008
Vladimir Ashkenazy:    2009-2013
David Robertson:          2014-


Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (1948):

Kenneth Murison Bourn:     19  -1962
Thomas Matthews:              1962-1968
Thomas Mayer:                    1970-197   
Vanco Cavdarski:                1974-1976
Barry Tuckwell:                    1980-1983
Nicholas Braithwaite:         1984-1986
Dobbs Franks:                     1989-1991
David Porcelijn:                  199 -2000
Ola Rudner:                         2001-2003
Sebastian Lang-Lessing: 2004-2011
Marko Letonja:                   2012-
 

West Australian Symphony Orchestra(1950):

Henry Krips:            1948-1971
Tibor Paul:               1971-1973
David Measham:    1974-1981
Jorge Mester:         1991-1994
Matthias Bamert:  2003-2006
Paul Daniel:            2009-2013
Asher Fisch:           2014-


Australian Opera(1956):         

Sir Edward Downes:      1972-1976
Richard Bonynge:          1976-1986
Simone Young:              2001-2003
Richard Hickox:             2005-2008



Title: Re: Australian Orchestras and their Principal Conductors
Post by: guest2 on October 13, 2015, 08:47:10 am
. . . Kurt Woss:                   1956-1959 . . .

I believe it would be acceptable to write either "Kurt Wöss" or (perhaps) "Kurt Woess", but please not "Kurt Woss" since the pronunciation is different.

Arnold Schönberg/Schoenberg - often described as an "Austrian" composer although he sometimes used a Czech passport - was in much the same boat.



Title: Re: Australian Orchestras and their Principal Conductors
Post by: albert on October 13, 2015, 10:09:26 am
West Australian: Asher Fisch


Title: Re: Australian Orchestras and their Principal Conductors
Post by: Dundonnell on October 13, 2015, 02:13:46 pm
West Australian: Asher Fisch

Thanks for the correction :)