Personalities | (Sir) Simon Rattle | Contemporary | Classical
b. 1955
English conductor
Rattle won the John Player International Conductors’ Competition in 1974. After posts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, he was principal conductor and music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, 1980–97. In 1999 he was appointed Abbado’s successor, from 2002, at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He has conducted the London Sinfonietta, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
Introduction | Contemporary | Classical
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