James Gaffigan
Conductor James Gaffigan is a versatile figure with a repertory ranging from orchestral music to opera, from Mozart to Wolfgang Rihm. His career has entailed long-term posts with several prestigious European ensembles, and as of 2021, he was the principal guest conductor of the Trondheim Symphony in Norway.
Gaffigan was born in New York in 1979. His father was a sales representative for the Procter & Gamble firm, and his mother was a secretary. Gaffigan attended La Guardia High School in New York, but he showed musical talent and also took classes in the Juilliard School's Preparatory Division. He went on to the New England Conservatory, his interest in conducting steadily growing, and he attended the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston for a master's degree, studying with Larry Rachleff. Gaffigan rounded out his conducting education with courses at the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival, working with David Zinman and Murry Sidlin, and he earned a conducting fellowship at the Tanglewood Festival in 2003. A first-prize win at the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors' Competition in Germany in 2004 aided his career, which had already begun with his appointment as the assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, under Franz Welser-Möst, the previous year. Gaffigan also served as the music director of Cleveland's CityMusic Chamber Orchestra.
In 2006, Gaffigan was chosen by music director Michael Tilson Thomas as associate conductor of the San Francisco Symphony; remaining there until 2009, he also served as the director of the orchestra's Summer in the City festival. Gaffigan began to find high-profile guest conducting engagements, including those with the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, and the Lucerne Symphony in Switzerland, where he made guest appearances in 2008 and 2009 before being hired as the chief conductor in 2010. His contract was renewed in 2015 for a second five-year term. He also held principal guest conductor posts during this period with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in the Netherlands and the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne. In 2020, Gaffigan stepped down from his position in Lucerne, and he was named the principal guest conductor of the Trondheim Symphony the following year.
Gaffigan made 15 recordings with the Lucerne Symphony, mostly for the Harmonia Mundi, Challenge Classics, and Sony Classical labels. In 2021, he and the Lucerne Symphony backed violinist Vadim Gluzman on an album of concertos by Beethoven and Schnittke on the BIS label. Gaffigan and the Lucerne Symphony also released the album Americans: Bernstein, Barber, Crawford, Ives on Harmonia Mundi that year.
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12 album(s) • Trié par Meilleures ventes
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Anton Dvořák : Symphony No. 6 - American Suite, Op. 98b
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and James Gaffigan
Musique symphonique - Paru chez harmonia mundi le 25 août 2014
4 étoiles Classica24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bernstein, Barber, Crawford & Ives: Americans
James Gaffigan, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, Paul Jacobs
Symphonies - Paru chez harmonia mundi le 28 mai 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Prokofiev: Symphonies No. 6 and No. 7
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan
Classique - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 11 mars 2016
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Prokofiev: Symphonies No. 2 & No. 4 (Second Version)
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan
Classique - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 9 mars 2018
5 de Diapason24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos
Kirill Gerstein, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan
Classique - Paru chez Myrios Classics le 10 mars 2015
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Kammersymphonie │ Symphony No. 6
Asko Schönberg, Reinbert de Leeuw, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest, James Gaffigan
Classique - Paru chez Attacca le 18 févr. 2024
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Willem Jeths: Requiem
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan, Willem Jeths
Classique - Paru chez Challenge Classics le 12 mars 2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright
Peter Herresthal, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan, Arctic Philharmonic, Tim Weiss
Classique - Paru chez BIS le 3 mars 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Gordon Getty: Beauty Come Dancing
Netherlands Radio Choir, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan
Musique chorale (pour chœur) - Paru chez PentaTone le 17 août 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Brahms: Nänie
Classique - Paru chez Sony Classical - Sony Music le 2 nov. 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Beethoven & Schnittke: Violin Concertos
Vadim Gluzman, Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan
Classique - Paru chez BIS le 7 mai 2021
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev: Piano Concertos
Kirill Gerstein, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra, James Gaffigan
Classique - Paru chez Myrios Classics le 10 mars 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo