Daniel Nazareth
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Early life
Daniel Nazarath was born in Bombay, IndiaIndia
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
.
His parents ran the well known Nazareth Public Speaking Academy.
Career
Daniel Nazareth began violin lessons at age of 7. He earned degrees in Commerce and Economics from Bombay University in 1968. He earned a degree in piano from the Royal College of MusicRoyal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...
, London, in 1969. Nazareth later attended the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst and earned an Honours Diploma in Orchestral Conducting in 1975.
Nazareth was a prize winner at the 1974 International Nikolai Malko Conductors Competition in Copenhagen, Denmark. This led to a series of conducting engagements in Scandinavia and an opportunity to study privately with Igor Markevitch
Igor Markevitch
Igor Markevitch was a Ukrainian, Italian, and French composer and conductor.- Origin :Igor Markevich was born in Kiev, to an old family of Ukrainian Cossack starshyna ennobled in the 18th century...
. In the summer of 1976, Nazareth was a recipient of the Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
Conducting Fellowship and of the Koussevitsky Music Foundation Conductor's Award at Tanglewood
Tanglewood
Tanglewood is an estate and music venue in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is the home of the annual summer Tanglewood Music Festival and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, and has been the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home since 1937. It was the venue of the Berkshire Festival.- History...
, USA. There, his mentors included Bernstein, Colin Davis
Colin Davis
Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE is an English conductor. His repertoire is broad, but among the composers with whom he is particularly associated are Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett....
and Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa
is a Japanese conductor, particularly noted for his interpretations of large-scale late Romantic works. He is most known for his work as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Vienna State Opera.-Early years:...
.
On the invitation of Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He wrote the classic Christmas opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, among about two dozen other operas intended to appeal to popular...
, Nazareth conducted his first opera, Cosi fan tutte
Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti K. 588, is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed in 1790. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte....
, in the summer of 1977 at the Spoleto Festival, Italy. Nazareth also won the first Ernest Ansermet
Ernest Ansermet
Ernest Alexandre Ansermet was a Swiss conductor.- Biography :Ansermet was born in Vevey, Switzerland. Although he was a contemporary of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Otto Klemperer, Ansermet represents in most ways a very different tradition and approach from those two musicians. Originally he was a...
Conducting Competition in 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland.
Nazareth was music director of the Teatro San Carlo from 1988 to 1990. From 1990 to 1991 he served as Music Director of the Ente Lirico Festival at the Arena di Verona, Italy.
After the re-unification of Germany, Nazareth served as Chief Conductor of the Orchestra of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk is the public broadcaster for the federal states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt...
from 1992 to 1996. He and the orchestra celebrated the 15th anniversary of the papacy of Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
Blessed Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła , reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death on 2 April 2005, at of age. His was the second-longest documented pontificate, which lasted ; only Pope Pius IX ...
with a live TV concert at the Vatican in 1993. Video productions with the MDR Television Leipzig included Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Mass in C, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Mahler’s Symphony No. 10, Mozart’s Requiem and Orff’s Carmina Burana.
In August 2000, Nazareth conducted the Opera di Roma’s Centenary Production of Puccini’s TOSCA at the Roman Olympic Stadium and at the World Expo 2000
Expo 2000
Expo 2000 was a World's Fair held in Hanover, Germany from Thursday, June 1 to Tuesday, October 31, 2000. It was located on the Hanover fairground , which is famous for hosting CeBIT...
in Hannover/ Germany. In July 2002, he conducted the first performance of Gustav Mahler’s 5th Symphony in the New Critical Edition commissioned by the International Gustav Mahler Society, Vienna, at the Bregenz
Bregenz
-Culture:The annual summer music festival Bregenzer Festspiele is a world-famous festival which takes place on and around a stage on Lake Constance, where a different opera is performed every second year.-Sport:* A1 Bregenz HB is a handball team....
Festival, Austria.
Daniel Nazareth is Music Director designate of the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Costa Rica.
Nazareth's recordings include the world premiere recording of Respighi’s Sinfonia Drammatica for the Marco Polo label. With the Bayerische Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, Munich, and the Munich Philharmonic he has recorded Messian’s L’Ascension, Richard Strauss’ Aus Italien and other works.
Nazareth’s compositions include three piano trios, instrumental sonatas, Gitanjali Songs to texts by Rabrindranath Tagore, Gustav Mahler Songs, a series of “Concerti Sinfonici” for violin and orchestra, viola and orchestra, cello and orchestra, piano and orchestra, an Italian opera, “Fontana dell’ Amore”, set in medieval Tuscany etc. He has arranged for orchestra a set of Debussy’s Piano Preludes from Book 1 and 2. Nazareth is creating two major works for the European Capital of Culture Istanbul 2010:
- A symphony on evolution for soloists, chorus and large orchestra, reconciling various theories of creation and evolution with the spiritual evolution poetry that Jalal ad- Din Rumi wrote 700 years ago.
- An opera 'The 'Leonardo Bridge. It narrates the story of a bridge Da Vinci planned at the Golden Horn 1503. Hitherto unknown facts about Da Vinci including his riddle compositions will be presented for the first time.
He co-authored the screenplay “Gustav and Alma” that narrates the triumph and tragedy that overcast the last decade of Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
’s life.