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Biography:
Christoph Eschenbach, born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), studied piano with Prof. Eliza Hansen and won numerous piano competitions at a young age. Christoph Eschenbach, a highly esteemed guest conductor of the world's major orchestras and opera houses, has been dual director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC since September 2010
For more than five decades, Christoph Eschenbach has recorded an impressive number of musical works, both as a conductor and as a pianist. Eschenbach's recordings with the Orchester de Paris have been released by Ondine and Deutsche Grammophon, and there are also recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic, the NDR Symphony Orchestra and the Houston Symphony, to name just the most important.
Promoted by George Szell and Herbert von Karajan, Christoph Eschenbach was chief conductor and artistic director of the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra (1982-1986), musical director of the Houston Symphony (1988-1999), musical director of the Ravinia Festival (1994-2003), artistic director of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (1999-2002) and musical director of the NDR Symphony Orchestra (1998-2004) and the Orchester de Paris (2000-2010).
Christoph Eschenbach is a Knight of the Légion d'Honneur, Officer of the French National Order of Merit, Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, bearer of the German Federal Cross of Merit and winner of the Leonard Bernstein Prize. In 2015 he was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize as a pianist and conductor.
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