2022-2023

MiTo Festival
WITH PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA AT TEATROALLA SCALACONDUCTOR JOHN AXELROD NEWS

PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR
BUCHAREST SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA

MAHLER 2CITY OF KYOTO SYMPHONY

CONCERTS CULINAIRES
DE CHARDONNEORCHESTRAUNA FÉRIA DE FLAMENCOJOHN AXELRODHIGHLIGHTS 2022-2023• John Axelrod begins his 2022-2023 season with an extraordinary event,opening the MiTo Settembre Musica Festival at Auditorium Giovanni
Agnelli-Lingotto in Torino and in Teatro alla Scala in Milano, touring withthe Philharmonia Orchestra, making the Italian premiere of Imagined
Forests by prize winning composer Evangeline-Grace Mason andfeaturing Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade• John Axelrod is currently the Principal Guest Conductor of the City ofKyoto Symphony Orchestra and returns to Kyoto Concert Hall on
September 24-25, 2022 to conduct Mahler Symphony 2, *Resurrection”“John Axelrod is a highly
imaginative and dynamic
musician, whose richmusicological background andhistorical insights combine withintellectual drive and charismatic
enthusiasm for people and for life,
to get probing, rigorous and richly
characterised interpretations.”-Remy Franck, Pizzicato

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CONDUCTOR JOHN AXELROD NEWS• March 10-11, 2023, again in Kyoto Concert Hall withStravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps (which he recently conductedfor the Spring Solstice 2021 at Teatro la Fenice in Venice)• Mozart with the Munich Chamber Orchestra at theMozart@Augsburg in September 2022
• Verdi’s Requiem in October with the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari

Bucharest Music
Institute MasterClassand Competition2022• Adams, Dun and Beethoven’s Pastorale in November with theDortmunder Philharmoniker• John Williams and his Influences in November with theOrchestra Sinfonica di Milano (where he was Principal Guest
Conductor from 2011-2018)• Korngold’s Symphony in Fis in November with the Prague RadioSymphony Orchestra• Liszt, Vasks and Franck in December with the PhilharmonischeOrchester der Hansestadt Lübeck
• Haifa Symphony Orchestra in January 2023 withTchaikovsky’s Pathetique• February 2023 has 2 programs with the National SymphonyOrchestra of India in Mumbai• Robert and Clara Schumann with the Sinfonie Orchester
Lichtenstein in March 2023
• Beethoven’s Symphony 7 and Widmann’s Con Brio with theWeimar Staatskappelle in April 2023
• Two engagements in 2023 with the Belgrade Philharmonic inApril and June.
• Maestro Axelrod continues his June residency with the Orchestra
Sinfonia Nazionale della RAI, with whom he enjoys a decade
long relationship

MAESTRO AXELROD AND
THE BUCHAREST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAJohn Axelrod, Artistic
Director of CMO: Conductors
Masterclass Online, incollaboration with theBucharest Music Institute,presented a masterclass andconducting competition withover 40 international
conductors. August 2023 willcontinue this importanteducational BMI/CMO
Collaboration.
https://conductorsmasterclassonline.com

Following the highly successful concert at the George Enescu
Festival in September 2021 and the Bucharest Music Institute'sInternational Conducting Masterclass and Competition inJuly 2022, the musicians of the Bucharest SymphonyOrchestra, Romania's private professional orchestra, haveunanimously voted John Axelrod as Principal Conductor, starting
September 2022. In a unique demonstration of mutual trust andrespect, the agreement between the BSO is concluded for anindefinite period to ensure a musically satisfying joint and long-term
future. Future plans with Maestro Axelrod include multiple
recordings, subscription concerts including New Years and summer
open-air and continued conducting masterclass and competition
with the Bucharest Music Institute.
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CONDUCTOR JOHN AXELROD NEWS2022-2023 also features three projects dear to
Maestro Axelrod that demonstrate his active imagination,
his passion for wine and food and his continued work as apublished author.
After the success of his 3rd book- Big Notes: How A
Stradivarius Makes Money and Music, published byClink Street in 2021, Edizione Curci publishes theItalian version of the book, Suono Ricco, Musica e
Mercato del Lusso, to be released at the CremonaMusica in September 2022.

John Axelrod is a resident of Chardonne, in the UNESCO
Lavaux wine region of Switzerland. To contribute to hiscommunity, he created the Concerts Culinaires deChardonne. ”Una Feria de Flamenco” on October 15,
2022, is the 3rd edition, presenting the great Spanish guitarist
José Maria Gallardo del Rey and his ensemble in concert,which also combines a wine tasting provided by the communeof Chardonne and delicious culinary specialties prepared by
Mathieu Bruno, the award winning chef of the restaurant “LàHaut.”

https://culinaryconcert.com

Maestro John Axelrod is also The Conductor In The
Kitchen, featuring a website, social media and YouTube
video channel. In addition to his blog about wine andmusic: Iambacchus.com, John Axelrod shares recipes,
playlists, photographs and videos. More videos will bemade in October, 2022 and 2023.
Music never tasted so good!

https://theconductorinthekitchen.com

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CONDUCTOR JOHN AXELROD NEWSJOHN AXELROD
Principal Conductor, Bucharest Symphony Orchestra
Principal Guest Conductor, City of Kyoto Symphony Orchestra, JapanSEASON 2022-2023
Since 1996, Mr. Axelrod has conducted more than 177 orchestras, 37 operas and 65 world premieres, establishing a profile
as one of today's leading conductors and sought after by orchestras and opera houses throughout the world. His
extraordinarily diverse repertoire, innovative programming, probing interpretations and charismatic performance style
have been praised and recognized by both audiences and critics. In 2020, Maestro Axelrod received the Special
Achievement Award from the International Classical Music Awards for his outstanding contributions and interpretations.
In 2022, Maestro Axelrod was unanimously elected as the Principal Conductor of the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra,with a unique open-ended contract. In 2019, Maestro Axelrod became the Principal Guest Conductor of the City of Kyoto
Symphony Orchestra. From 2014-2020, Maestro Axelrod was the Artistic and Musical Director of the Real Orquesta
Sinfónica de Sevilla (ROSS). Other titled positions included Principal Guest Conductor of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano(LaVerdi), Music Director of the NHK Jazz at the Metropolitan Theater, Music Director of the l'Orchestre National desPays de la Loire, Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Theater, Music Director of"Hollywood in Vienna" with the ORF Vienna Radio Orchestra, and First Conductor of Sinfonietta Cracovia.
Among his long term relationships, invitations and recordings with European orchestras include Berlin’s RSB, NDR
Symphony Hamburg (ElbePhilharmonie), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester, Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra Sinfonica
Nazionale della RAI Torino, Teatro La Fenice Orchestra in Venice, Orchestre de Paris, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra,Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, and the MariinskyOrchestra in Russia. In the USA, Mr. Axelrod has conducted the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and thePhiladelphia Orchestra among others. Maestro Axelrod recently debuted to great acclaim with the Bavarian RadioSymphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra.
Important regular festival engagements include the Enescu, Salzburg, Lucerne, Montreux Jazz and the Schleswig Holstein.
John Axelrod’s key opera activity includes Bernstein's Candide at Théâtre du Châtelet, Teatro alla Scala and MaggioMusicale Fiorentino, Eugene Onegin at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, and Kurt Weill’s Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt
Mahagonny at the Rome Opera. For the Lucerne Festival, he conducted: Rigoletto, The Rake's Progress, Don Giovanni,
the Three Penny Opera, Falstaff and Idomeneo. Maestro Axelrod conducted Gianni Schicchi to open the 2020 Puccini
Festival and returned in 2021 to conduct a new production of Turandot, directed by Daniele Abbado. Mr. Axelrod hasrecorded core and contemporary repertoire for Sony Classical, Warner Classics, Ondine, Universal, Naïve and Nimbus,
and released a cycle of Brahms Symphonies with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, entitled Brahms
Beloved on Telarc, produced by Grammy winner Michael Fine.
Actively committed to working with young professional musicians, Mr. Axelrod was the Principal Conductor of the PacificMusic Festival in Sapporo, and he has toured with the Santander Orchestra, the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra tothe Salzburg Festival, the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, the Academia Teatro alla Scala to Muscat, the NordDeutsche Junge
Philharmonie and the Vienna Jeunesse Orchester. In 2020, Maestro Axelrod created CMO. Conductors Masterclass
Online, now teaching 26 students worldwide. In 2022, Maestro Axelrod led the Bucharest Music Institute Masterclass andCompetition. Mr. Axelrod graduated in 1988 from Harvard University. Trained personally by Leonard Bernstein in 1982,
he also studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Ilya Musin in 1996 and was mentored by Christoph Eschenbach
from 1997 until 2000 when we made his professional debut at assistant conductor for Parisfal at the Bayreuth Festival.

GENERAL INQUIRIES AND INVITATIONS

jeremy.gold@johnaxelrod.com
https://johnaxelrod.com

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