Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of the New York Philharmonic for the 2026-27 season, ending a heralded tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic that began in 2009.
FILE - Gustavo Dudamel appears at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Homecoming Concert & Gala in Los Angeles on Oct. 9. 2021. Dudamel will become music director of the New York Phlharmonic for the 2026-27 season, ending a tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic that began in 2009.
FILE - Gustavo Dudamel appears at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Homecoming Concert & Gala in Los Angeles on Oct. 9. 2021. Dudamel will become music director of the New York Phlharmonic for the 2026-27 season, ending a tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic that began in 2009. will become music director of the New York Philharmonic for the 2026-27 season, ending a heralded tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic that began in 2009.
The 42-year-old Venezuelan conductor agreed to a five-year contract as New York’s artistic and music director, the orchestra announced Tuesday. Dudamel will become the first Latino to head the orchestra since its founding in 1842. “What the orchestra told us very, very clearly was that the person that they wanted, their dream candidate, was Gustavo,” New York Philharmonic CEO Deborah Borda said. “When you’re trying to recruit the most sought-after conductor in the world, you don’t run a sort of classic search.”, a role he’s held since 2021, and of Venezuela’s Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, a position he took in 1999 that gained him international recognition.
“I gaze with joy and excitement at the world that lies before me in New York City, and with pride and love at the world I have shared — and will continue to share — with my dear Angelenos over the next three seasons and beyond,” Dudamel said. “All of us are united in our belief that culture creates a better world, and in our dream that music is a fundamental right.”
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