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Eliahu Inbal

Conductor Eliahu Inbal has become known to many worldwide for both his concert performances and his numerous recordings, including the complete symphonies of several composers. In Europe, however, Inbal is nearly as well-known as a conductor of opera, with interests running from the Italian bel cantists through works of the 20th century; nor has he ignored the symphonic works of his own time; a number of important original works and reconstructions have been premiered under his preparation and direction. Following his retirement from the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in 2023, he held the titles of conductor laureate with that orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and honorary conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester).Inbal was born in Jerusalem on February 16, 1936. He studied violin at the Jerusalem Music Academy, but he then directed his training toward conducting. He participated in conducting classes led by the legendary and iconoclastic Romanian maestro Sergiu Celibidache at Hilversum and pursued further courses in conducting at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1963, Inbal's growing proficiency was recognized when he won the Guido Cantelli Prize at Novara. Inbal's 1965 conducting debut in England came not in the opera house but in the concert hall when he led the London Philharmonic Orchestra. His success with the London Philharmonic led to engagements with other English orchestras and to his eventual acquisition of joint British citizenship.Continuing to balance concert and opera work, Inbal made his debut in Bologna in 1969, leading a performance of Strauss' Elektra. A production of Verdi's Don Carlo at Verona the same year added to Inbal's reputation as a conductor able to draw together the strands of a sometimes-diffuse score. In 1971, he led a concert performance of Cherubini's Anacréon, the work's first French-language hearing since 1803, the year of its premiere. In 1974, Inbal was engaged as chief conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester), the ensemble with which he would make a noteworthy series of recordings. Presiding over several world premieres, Inbal received particular recognition for his performance of Juan Allende-Blin's edition of Debussy's uncompleted La chûte de la maison Usher given in 1977. That same year saw the first performance of Xavier Benguerel's Concerto for percussion. In 1982, Inbal presented the premiere of Isang Yun's first violin concerto. He remained in his post with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony until 1990 and has held the title of honorary conductor since 1996.In 1984, Inbal was appointed chief conductor at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice, remaining in that position until 1989. Undertaking an unusually stressful assignment in 1986, Inbal conducted productions of two Verdi operas, Stiffelio and Aroldo, on the same day, receiving acclaim for the orchestral performance despite indifferent singing from the casts. From 1996 to 2001, he was the honorary conductor of the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in Turin before becoming the music director of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra (now the Konzerthausorchester Berlin) from 2001 until 2006. Inbal strung together several major positions beginning in the late 2000s. He returned to Le Fenice as music director (2007-2011), chief conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra (2008-2014, then becoming conductor laureate), and chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (2009-2012). Inbal's final post was as the principal conductor of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra from 2019 until 2022, and he was named that orchestra's conductor laureate in 2023.Among Inbal's achievements in the recording studio are the complete symphonies of Mahler, Bruckner, and Shostakovich, as well as releases of the complete orchestral works of Ravel, Scriabin, Schumann, and Berlioz. A recording of Donizetti's Maria de Rudenz issued on Mondo Musica is distinguished by the conductor's grasp of the composer's transitional style. In 1990, Inbal was honored with the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2006.
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