page_title: Charles Dutoit
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context_page_description: Charles Édouard Dutoit OC GOQ is a Swiss conductor. He is currently the principal guest conductor for the St-Petersburg Philharmonic and co-director of the MISA Festival in Shanghai. In 2017, he became the 103rd recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal Award. Dutoit is the former artistic director and principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor emeritus of the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo, and was conductor laureate of the Philadelphia Orchestra until the orchestra stripped him of the title after multiple allegations of sexual assault.
  He is the former music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Orchestre National de France, and as of 2017, conductor emeritus of the Verbier Music Festival Orchestra. He is an honorary member of the Ravel Foundation in France and the Stravinsky Foundation in Switzerland.
  In December 2017, following allegations of sexual assault, the Boston and San Francisco symphonies cancelled his engagements, and he withdrew from conducting scheduled concerts in New York, Cleveland and Chicago. Dutoit denied the charges.
context_section_description: Charles Édouard Dutoit OC GOQ (born 7 October 1936) is a Swiss conductor. He is currently the principal guest conductor for the St-Petersburg Philharmonic and co-director of the MISA Festival in Shanghai. In 2017, he became the 103rd recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal Award. Dutoit is the former artistic director and principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor emeritus of the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo, and was conductor laureate of the Philadelphia Orchestra until the orchestra stripped him of the title after multiple allegations of sexual assault.
  He is the former music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Orchestre National de France, and as of 2017, conductor emeritus of the Verbier Music Festival Orchestra. He is an honorary member of the Ravel Foundation in France and the Stravinsky Foundation in Switzerland.
  In December 2017, following allegations of sexual assault, the Boston and San Francisco symphonies cancelled his engagements, and he withdrew from conducting scheduled concerts in New York, Cleveland and Chicago. Dutoit denied the charges.
caption: Dutoit conducting in 1984
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