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George Cleve
The name George Wolfgang Cleve has become almost synonymous with W.A. Mozart as one of
the world's most devoted interpreters of that composer's music. Worldwide acknowledgments of
his Mozart expertise include invitations by Vladimir Spivakov to conduct the Requiem as the
grand finale of the International Festival Mozartiana in Moscow, returning in 2005 to conduct
the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia in Mozart's 41st Symphony and Schumann's 4th
Symphony for a series, featuring the last symphonies of great composers. In recent seasons, Mr.
Cleve has conducted Mozart and Brahms for Symphony Silicon Valley and Don Giovanni for
Opera San José. He made his fourth appearance in Moscow conducting Brahms for the State
Academic Orchestra in fall 2006. Directly following Moscow, he made his debut with San
Francisco Opera conducting Bizet's Carmen in November as well as opening the San Francisco
Ballet season conducting Divertimento No. 15 by Mozart/Balanchine. Guest engagements for
this season included a fifth return to Moscow for concerts with the National Philharmonic of
Russia, performances of The Firebird with the San Francisco Ballet, and concerts with
Symphony Silicon Valley.
As a busy guest conductor, he has appeared with most of the North American orchestras,
including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston, Cleveland,
Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Montreal Symphony. He has also appeared at New York's Mostly
Mozart Festival and at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony. Invited in 2000 by
choreographer Twyla Tharp to conduct the world premiere of her The Beethoven Seventh at
New York City Ballet, Mr. Cleve subsequently has become a frequent guest conductor there,
conducting The Firebird, Concerto in 5 Movements, Symphony in C, Le Tombeau de Couperin,
and Midsummer Night's Dream and other works in ensuing seasons. For the New York City
Ballet's Balanchine Centennial celebration in January 2007, he conducted Mozart/Balanchine's
dazzling Divertimento #15.
In Europe, his conducting credits include the Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, English
Chamber, Ulster, Swedish Radio, Oslo Philharmonic, Danish Radio, Beethovenhalle in Bonn,
Zurich Tonhalle, Suisse Romande, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National de Lille,
Orchestre National de Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Vienna Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Radio
Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Russian National Symphony, and the Mozarteum Orchestra at the
Salzburg Festival 1993. Mr. Cleve has also conducted the Singapore Symphony three times, and
has appeared on many podiums in South America, New Zealand, and Australia.
Opera credits include Don Carlo, Carmen, La bohème, La traviata, Rigoletto, Dido and Aeneas,
Le nozze di Figaro, Cosě fan tutte, Abduction from the Seraglio, Bastien und Bastienne,
Cavalleria rusticana, I pagliacci, Madama Butterfly and Oedipus Rex with the Opera Company
of Philadelphia, San Francisco Spring Opera, Opera San José, Long Beach Opera and the
Spoleto USA Festival, as well as a concert version of Gluck's Orpheus and Euridice with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1994 he conducted Don Giovanni with the Mannheim Opera.
Mr. Cleve was awarded the rank of Officier of the Order of Arts and Letters of the Republic of
France in recognition of his performances of French music. He has also received an Honorary
Doctorate of Fine Arts from the University of Santa Clara, the Gold Medal of Honor of the
Republic of Austria, and the Silver Medal of the City of Vienna for his part in founding the
Midsummer Mozart Festival, now celebrating its 37th anniversary season.
Midsummer Mozart Festival 760 Market St #749, San Francisco CA 94102
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