Having performed more than 130 times with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor 2007-2012.
Gustavo Dudamel (born 1981) is the most acclaimed conductor of our time. After his training in El Sistema, Venezuela’s famed music education programme, he became the principal conductor of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra in Caracas, and had his international breakthrough in 2004 when he won the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in Bamberg. In 2007, he became the principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, where he stayed until 2012, and in 2009 of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
In season 2026-27 he will become Music and Artistic Director at New York Philharmonic.