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03-26-2010, 06:00 PM
Maestro Carlos Piantini died at dawn this Friday after several days of hospitalization in Miami. He would have been 83 on 9 May. Piantini played the violin in the New York Philarmonic Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein for 15 years before choosing to return to the DR in 1973 to be the first artistic director of the newly opened National Theater through 1978. He ensured that the theater presented world-class performers.
Piantini studied violin at the Julliard School of Music and joined the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1956. He won the Richard Hirsch Memorial Award.
From 1978 to 1983 he was the conductor of the Caracas symphony Orchestra. He was the conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra from 1984-1994.
From 1985 to 1986 he conducted 17 concerts at the Teatro San Carlos in Naples, Italy, and continued conducting orchestras and opera in the Dominican Republic and around the world. He also worked as director of orchestra studies at the International University of Florida for many years.
The main hall of the National Theater is named for him during a ceremony in his honor that was held last month on occasion of the opening of the National Symphony Orchestra season, now under Maestro Jose Antonio Molina.
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Piantini studied violin at the Julliard School of Music and joined the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1956. He won the Richard Hirsch Memorial Award.
From 1978 to 1983 he was the conductor of the Caracas symphony Orchestra. He was the conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra from 1984-1994.
From 1985 to 1986 he conducted 17 concerts at the Teatro San Carlos in Naples, Italy, and continued conducting orchestras and opera in the Dominican Republic and around the world. He also worked as director of orchestra studies at the International University of Florida for many years.
The main hall of the National Theater is named for him during a ceremony in his honor that was held last month on occasion of the opening of the National Symphony Orchestra season, now under Maestro Jose Antonio Molina.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#14)