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John Nelson

Operatically Maestro Nelson has worked extensively with such companies as the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera, the Bastille Opera, Geneva Grand Theatre, Lyon Opera, Rome Opera, La Monnaie, the Netherlands Opera and the Welsh National Opera.

 

John Nelson’s own homage to Berlioz in 2003 was to favor the composer’s works in all of his guest conducting engagements. These included Romeo and Juliet with the Orchestre de Paris and an EMI recording of Benvenuto Cellini with the Orchestre & Chorus National de France which will be released later this year.

 

Future engagements include performances of Bach St John's Passion at Paris Notre Dame with the Ensemble orchestral de Paris, concerts with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon conducting Schumann's Paradise und Peri, Mostly Mozart Festival concerts in London and performances with the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

The distinguished American conductor, John Nelson, is one of the world’s most versatile and accomplished conductors. He is highly regarded not only for his great interpretations of large Romantic works and his stylish performances of Baroque music, but also for his vibrant Mozart and Haydn and his devotion to new music.

 

Presently John Nelson is Music Director of L’Ensemble orchestral de Paris, a Beethoven size chamber orchestra which, through its international touring and EMI recordings as well as its strong following at home, is establishing itself as a major force internationally.

 

John Nelson has conducted in virtually all the major cities of the world- in the US with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles, Boston, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and San Francisco and in Europe with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Staatskappelle, Gurzenich Orchestra in Cologne, the Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and the orchestras of Oslo, Rotterdam, and Orchestre de Paris.