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Serebrier, Jose

SEREBRIER, JOSE (b 1938 )

Grammy-winner conductor and composer José Serebrier is one of most recorded classical artists today. When he was 21 years old, Leopold Stokowski hailed him as “the greatest master of orchestral balance”. After five years as Stokowski’s Associate Conductor at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Serebrier accepted an invitation from George Szell to become Composer-in-Residence of the Cleveland Orchestra. Szell discovered Serebrier when he won the Ford Foundation American Conductors Competition (together with James Levine). Serebrier was music director of America’s oldest music festival, in Worcester, Massachusetts, until he organized Festival Miami, and served as its artistic director for many years. In that capacity, he commissioned many composers, including Elliot Carter’s String Quartet No. 4, and conducted many American and world premières. He has made international tours with the Juilliard Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestre de Chambre National de Toulouse.

His first recording, Charles Ives’s Fourth Symphony with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, won a Grammy nomination. His recording of the Mendelssohn symphonies won the UK Music Retailers Association Award for Best Orchestral Recording, and his series of Shostakovich’s Film Suites won the Deutsche Schallplatten Award for Best Orchestral Recording. Soundstage magazine selected Serebrier’s recording of Scheherazade with the LPO as the Best Audiophile Recording. He has recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Bournemouth Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony, Czech State Philharmonic Brno, Sydney and Melbourne Symphonies and many others, and “Serebrier Conducts Prokofiev, Beethoven and Tchaikowsky”, filmed at the Sydney Opera, released on VHS video in America, has been shown over 50 times on U.S. television and will soon be released on DVD.

As a composer, Serebrier has won most important awards in the United States, including two Guggenheims (as the youngest in that Foundation’s history, at the age of nineteen), Rockefeller Foundation grants, commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Harvard Musical Association, the B.M.I. Award, Koussevitzky Foundation Award, among others. Born in Uruguay of Russian and Polish parents, Serebrier has composed more than a hundred works. His First Symphony had its première under Leopold Stokowski (who gave the first performances of several of his works) when Serebrier was seventeen. His music has been recorded by conductors such as John Eliot Gardiner. His new Third Symphony, ‘Symphonie Mystique’ (Naxos 8.559183), received a Grammy nomination for Best New Composition of 2004. His Carmen Symphony CD, with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, won the Latin Grammy for Best Classical Album of 2004. The French music critic Michel Fauré has written a new biography of José Serebrier, published in 2001 in France by L’Harmattan. Serebrier’s first recording with the New York Philharmonic was released in January 2005.

For further information please visit www.joseserebrier.com.

Interview with Jose Serebrier in MusicWeb International, February 2007

Discography (4)
Image	Title	Price	Release Date	Label
	MUSSORGSKY, M.: Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. L. Stokowski) / SEREBRIER, J.: Symphony No. 3, "Symphonie mystique" (NTSC)	~~$24.99~~ $18.74	Jun 24, 2008	Naxos Dvd
	BIZET / SEREBRIER: Carmen Symphony and other works	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Feb 26, 2008	Naxos Wind Band Classics
	SEREBRIER: Symphony No. 2, "Partita" / Fantasia / Violin Sonata / Winterreise	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Mar 27, 2007	Naxos American Classics
	SEREBRIER: Symphony No. 3 / Elegy for Strings / Fantasia	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Sep 1, 2003	Naxos American Classics
	Aram Khachaturian Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Concerto-Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	May 26, 2009	Naxos Classics
	BACH, J.S. / PALESTRINA, G. / BYRD, W. / CLARKE, J. / BOCCERINI, L. / HAYDN, J. / MATTHESON, J.: Stokowski Transcriptions, Vol. 2	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Jan 27, 2009	Naxos Classics
	PANDA CLASSICS - Issue No. 4: Toon Time	~~$14.99~~ $11.24	Nov 18, 2008	Naxos Special Projects
	PANDA CLASSICS (3CD box set)	~~$19.99~~ $14.99	Sep 30, 2008	Naxos Special Projects
	Reinhard Schwarz-Schilling: Sinfonie in C / Sinfonia Diatonica / Introduktion und Fuge	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Aug 26, 2008	Naxos Classics
	CLASS OF '38	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Aug 26, 2008	Naxos Special Projects
	BLOCH, Ernest: Violin Concerto / Suite Hebraque / Baal Shem / Abodah	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Oct 30, 2007	Naxos Classics
	ROREM: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Cello Concerto	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Sep 25, 2007	Naxos American Classics
	WAGNER: Stokowski Transcriptions	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Sep 25, 2007	Naxos Classics
	SHOSTAKOVICH: The Golden Age, Op. 22	~~$17.99~~ $13.49	Nov 21, 2006	Naxos Classics
	BACH / PURCELL / HANDEL: Stokowski Transcriptions	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Jun 20, 2006	Naxos Classics
	ROREM: Violin Concerto / Flute Concerto / Pilgrims	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	May 16, 2006	Naxos American Classics
	MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition / Boris Godunov (Stokowski Transcriptions)	~~$14.99~~ $11.24	Sep 20, 2005	Naxos Dvd Audio
	MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition / Boris Godunov (Stokowski Transcriptions)	~~$14.99~~ $11.24	Sep 20, 2005	Naxos Dvd Audio
	The Story of American Classical Music	~~$17.99~~ $13.49	Jun 21, 2005	Naxos Educational
	MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition / Boris Godunov (Stokowski Transcriptions)	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Jun 21, 2005	Naxos Classics
	ROREM: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 3	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Aug 1, 2003	Naxos American Classics
	AMERICAN SALUTE (AN) - SPIRIT OF THE NATION	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Jun 1, 2002	Naxos American Classics
	BALADA: Piano Concerto No. 3 / Concierto Magico	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Aug 1, 2001	Naxos Classics
	SCHUMAN: Violin Concerto / New England Triptych	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	May 1, 2001	Naxos American Classics
	PANN: Piano Concerto / Dance Partita / Deux sejours	~~$8.99~~ $6.74	Feb 1, 2000	Naxos American Classics

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