Domingo Hindoyan

Domingo Garcia Hindoyan (born in Caracas, 15 February 1980) is a Venezuelan orchestra conductor.[1]

Life

He is the son of Domingo Garcia, a Venezuelan violinist and former president of the Orquesta Sinfonica Venezuela and Viki Hindoyan, lawyer at the Venezuelan National Parliament.

Hindoyan began his music studies as a violinist and a member of the Venezuelan musical education program El Sistema. He obtained a master’s degree in conducting at the Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève with highest distinction with Laurent Gay and thereafter participated in master classes with Bernard Haitink, David Zinman and Jesus Lopez Cobos. He lives in canton Vaud, Switzerland and is married to Bulgarian operatic singer Sonya Yoncheva. The couple have a son, Mateo, born on 6 October 2014.[2]

Career

He was first assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper, Berlin where he conducted in 2014 and 2015 several performances of La Traviata. He will also conduct Tosca, The Barber of Seville and the Rite of Spring.

In the 2012/13 season, he was a guest conductor at the Graz Oper, where he conducted a new production of Hänsel and Gretel and a revival of La Traviata, as well as a ballet evening of Sacre du printemps and Daphnis et Chloé and a new production of Turandot.

In concerts, Hindoyan has conducted the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Orquesta de Valencia, New Japan Philharmonic and Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra.

He was scheduled to conduct the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz and the New Japan Philharmonic. In 2014/15, he will return for the 3rd time to the Philharmonia Orchestra to conduct 3 concerts, the London Philharmonic, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Mozarteum Salzburg and 2 concerts at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo.

References

  1. ↑ Getting to know conductor Domingo Hindoyan | London Philharmonic Orchestra News
    PMF (Pacific Music Festival Sapporo)：Artists
    "Domingo Hindoyan était l'invité de Musiq'3 ce mercredi". Oprl.be. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
    International Conductors’ Academy of the Allianz Cultural Foundation, Royal Festival Hall - Reviews - Classical - The Independent
  2. ↑ Michael Cooper, A Last-Minute Sensation, The New York Times, 2014-11-27, accessdate 2014-12-26, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/arts/the-soprano-sonya-yoncheva-is-poised-for-stardom.html

External links

http://www.askonasholt.co.uk/artists/conductors/domingo-hindoyan

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