Moshe Atzmon

Moshe Atzmon (Hebrew: משה עצמון‎, born 30 July 1931) is an Israeli conductor.

He was born Móse Grószberger in Budapest, and at the age of thirteen he emigrated with his family to Tel Aviv, Israel. He started his musical career on the horn before going to London for further studies in conducting.

He has won several conducting prizes and held many positions with major orchestras. He was chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 1967 to 1971 and the Basel Symphony Orchestra from 1972 to 1986. He was also chief conductor of orchestras in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Rennes and of the Dortmunder Philharmoniker.

External links

Moshe Atzmon biography at DaCapo Records
(German) Moshe Atzmon biography

Preceded by Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt	Principal Conductors, North German Radio Symphony Orchestra 1971–1976	Succeeded by Klaus Tennstedt

Sydney Symphony Orchestra Chief Conductors

Eugene Goossens (1947) Nikolai Malko (1957) Dean Dixon (1964) Moshe Atzmon (1967) Willem van Otterloo (1971) Louis Frémaux (1979) Charles Mackerras (1982) Zdeněk Mácal (1986) Stuart Challender (1987) Edo de Waart (1993) Gianluigi Gelmetti (2004) Vladimir Ashkenazy (2009) David Robertson (2014)

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