Gustavo Dudamel, the famed music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic whose face plasters banners throughout the town, is about to go away L.A. and be a part of New York’s prime orchestra starting in 2026.
Dudamel will conduct three extra seasons with the L.A. Phil to conclude his contract, ending a 17-year tenure main one of many nation’s preeminent orchestras and turning into one of the well-recognized maestros in popular culture. In becoming a member of the New York Philharmonic, Dudamel shall be exiting his publish to steer one of many so-called “Massive 5” orchestras within the U.S. alongside Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland.
“I gaze with pleasure and pleasure on the world that lies earlier than me in New York Metropolis, and with satisfaction and love on the world I’ve shared — and can proceed to share — with my pricey Angelenos over the following three seasons and past,” Dudamel stated in an announcement on Tuesday. “All of us are united in our perception that tradition creates a greater world, and in our dream that music is a basic proper. I look ahead to the work forward.”
Initially from Venezuela, Dudamel was appointed to the highest publish at L.A. on the age of 26 and started his first season with the orchestra in 2009 at 28. Bringing an lively conducting fashion to the perch and marketed as the town’s latest star, together with with banner commercials displaying his face that also line the town’s avenue posts, Dudamel has extensively been acknowledged as serving to to revitalize the group and being a champion for brand spanking new music.
Alongside the best way, the conductor cemented his personal standing in Hollywood, serving as an inspiration for the primary character (and making a cameo) in Amazon Studio’s Mozart within the Jungle, conducting soundtracks for Steven Spielberg’s West Aspect Story and J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: The Power Awakens, lending his voice to an appropriately named “Trollzart” (Troll + Mozart) character in DreamWorks’ Trolls World Tour, accompanying Billie Eilish for Disney+’s Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles, and receiving a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame in 2019.
In a separate assertion, L.A. Phil CEO Chad Smith stated the orchestra will start the seek for its subsequent music director and appears ahead to welcoming Dudamel again as a visitor conductor sooner or later.
At New York, Dudamel will succeed conductor Jaap Van Zweden and can maintain the title of music and creative director starting within the 2026-27 season for a five-year time period. He’ll initially function music director designate for the 2025-26 season.
