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- Birth nameGustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez
- Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (born January 26, 1981) is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist. He is currently the principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony in Gothenburg, Sweden, and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California. Dudamel is also the artistic director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela.
- IMDb mini biography by: Gustaf Torress
- SpousesMaría Valverde(March 2017 - present)Eloisa Maturen(2006 - 2015) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenMartín Dudamel Maturén
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Live Theatre at 6752 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 23, 2019.
- Appointed Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on April 8, 2007. Began his tenure on September 28, 2009.
- Limited-run radio series "At Home with Gustavo" on KDFC (San Francisco) and KUSC (Los Angeles) from March 31 - April 12, 2020; English language broadcasts Tuesdays - Fridays, and Spanish-language broadcasts Sundays.
- I think it's a very important collaboration between conductor and orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music.
- People say that having three orchestras is a crazy life, but it's better because I have three families. I want to have my own kids very soon. In future, I still want to conduct a lot - but less - to be with my family.
- I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
- I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy, and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler.
- Well, how cool, how good that we are young! Young, but I believe that we have a very mature soul. We are young, but we are old!
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