Lionel Bringuier

Lionel Bringuier, resident conductor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has been made the chief conductor and music director of Switzerland's Zurich Tonhalle. His post will begin with the 2014-15 season and will run for four years. “This is wonderful news for both Lionel Bringuier and the Zurich Tonhalle," said L.A. Philharmonic President Deborah Borda via email. "Lionel has been a member of our LA Phil family for 6 years now and we could not be more thrilled for him. The Tonhalle is a distinguished orchestra with a storied past, and we know that Lionel will bring the same passion and commitment to making great music there as we have experienced with him.   "We also look forward to a continuing relationship with him well into the future.”   It's the first major post for the 26-year-old Bringuier, who was born in Nice, France - and a high profile one at that.

PARIS - The Los Angeles Philharmonic's resident conductor Lionel Bringuier is enjoying a rapid rise in the world of classical music. With three concerts this week at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the young Frenchman will complete a six-year stint in Los Angeles in which he evolved from an insouciant prodigy into a world-class conductor. "My last concert will have a lot of emotion," he said in a café at the Bastille on a bitter wintry day. FOR THE RECORD: Lionel Bringuier: An article in the April 21 Arts & Books section about Los Angeles Philharmonic resident conductor Lionel Bringuier included one reference that misidentified him as an associate conductor.

PARIS - The Los Angeles Philharmonic's resident conductor Lionel Bringuier is enjoying a rapid rise in the world of classical music. With three concerts this week at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the young Frenchman will complete a six-year stint in Los Angeles in which he evolved from an insouciant prodigy into a world-class conductor. "My last concert will have a lot of emotion," he said in a café at the Bastille on a bitter wintry day. FOR THE RECORD: Lionel Bringuier: An article in the April 21 Arts & Books section about Los Angeles Philharmonic resident conductor Lionel Bringuier included one reference that misidentified him as an associate conductor.

Lionel Bringuier, resident conductor with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has been made the chief conductor and music director of Switzerland's Zurich Tonhalle. His post will begin with the 2014-15 season and will run for four years. “This is wonderful news for both Lionel Bringuier and the Zurich Tonhalle," said L.A. Philharmonic President Deborah Borda via email. "Lionel has been a member of our LA Phil family for 6 years now and we could not be more thrilled for him. The Tonhalle is a distinguished orchestra with a storied past, and we know that Lionel will bring the same passion and commitment to making great music there as we have experienced with him.   "We also look forward to a continuing relationship with him well into the future.”   It's the first major post for the 26-year-old Bringuier, who was born in Nice, France - and a high profile one at that.

"Any asino can conduct," the autocratic Italian maestro Arturo Toscanini once said, comparing routine conductors to dunces. "But to make music, eh? Is difficile !" Now, try conducting a major orchestra without a rehearsal, as 23-year-old Lionel Bringuier, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's associate conductor, did in May. Or consider Leonard Slatkin's predicament last season when a reputed lack of familiarity with Verdi's "La Traviata" resulted in an ill-fated performance at the Metropolitan Opera.

For many people, turning 21 is an excuse for lots of partying and drinking. But for Lionel Bringuier, who turned 21 this week, marking that milestone is shaping up as a much more sober affair: He will make his debut today as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new assistant conductor -- the youngest in the orchestra's history. Yet Bringuier, who hails from Nice, France, doesn't want people to focus on his age. In fact, he's eager to avoid the subject.

Somehow, Beethoven at the Bowl makes for an ideal, sympathetic pairing of site and sound, if the past two seasons are an indication. Last year at the Hollywood Bowl, Itzhak Perlman performed admirable double-duty, as violin soloist and guest L.A. Phil conductor on themes of the popular Fifth and the deliciously quirky Eighth Symphony. Thursday at the Beethoven-endowed Bowl, the violin feature and symphony components were boldly led by the gifted young Frenchmen, violinist Renaud Capuçon and maestro Lionel Bringuier, with the Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61 and the rousing good time of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. As before, Beethoven's majesty, profundity and ear-warming familiarity rang out expansively in the Bowl's night air, also proving a resilient enough musical force to endure inevitable sonic intruders.

Gustavo Dudamel is known for his energetic and indefatigable presence on the classical-music podium. But on Thursday evening, the 28-year-old Venezuelan conductor's high-impact conducting style apparently caught up with him midway through a concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Dudamel injured his neck during a performance of Dvorák's Cello Concerto, featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic and soloist Alisa Weilerstein. The conductor heard a loud pop and lost sensation in parts of his body during the final movement of the piece, according to Philharmonic President Deborah Borda.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Augustin Hadelich, violinist; Lionel Bringuier conducts Where: Hollywood Bowl When: 8 p.m. Thursday Tickets: $1 to $129 Information: (323) 850-2000; http://www.hollywoodbowl.com

FRENCH conductor Lionel Bringuier, who turned 20 on Sept. 24, has been named assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic beginning in 2007. Currently assistant conductor of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, he will be the youngest assistant conductor in the Philharmonic's 87-year history. "For a Frenchman, it's really a dream to come to the United States," Bringuier said Wednesday by phone from Nice, France, his birthplace.

Somehow, Beethoven at the Bowl makes for an ideal, sympathetic pairing of site and sound, if the past two seasons are an indication. Last year at the Hollywood Bowl, Itzhak Perlman performed admirable double-duty, as violin soloist and guest L.A. Phil conductor on themes of the popular Fifth and the deliciously quirky Eighth Symphony. Thursday at the Beethoven-endowed Bowl, the violin feature and symphony components were boldly led by the gifted young Frenchmen, violinist Renaud Capuçon and maestro Lionel Bringuier, with the Violin Concerto in D, Opus 61 and the rousing good time of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7. As before, Beethoven's majesty, profundity and ear-warming familiarity rang out expansively in the Bowl's night air, also proving a resilient enough musical force to endure inevitable sonic intruders.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Augustin Hadelich, violinist; Lionel Bringuier conducts Where: Hollywood Bowl When: 8 p.m. Thursday Tickets: $1 to $129 Information: (323) 850-2000; http://www.hollywoodbowl.com

"Any asino can conduct," the autocratic Italian maestro Arturo Toscanini once said, comparing routine conductors to dunces. "But to make music, eh? Is difficile !" Now, try conducting a major orchestra without a rehearsal, as 23-year-old Lionel Bringuier, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's associate conductor, did in May. Or consider Leonard Slatkin's predicament last season when a reputed lack of familiarity with Verdi's "La Traviata" resulted in an ill-fated performance at the Metropolitan Opera.

Gustavo Dudamel is known for his energetic and indefatigable presence on the classical-music podium. But on Thursday evening, the 28-year-old Venezuelan conductor's high-impact conducting style apparently caught up with him midway through a concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Dudamel injured his neck during a performance of Dvorák's Cello Concerto, featuring the Los Angeles Philharmonic and soloist Alisa Weilerstein. The conductor heard a loud pop and lost sensation in parts of his body during the final movement of the piece, according to Philharmonic President Deborah Borda.

Esa-Pekka Salonen's Piano Concerto received a brightly confident performance at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night. The date marks the first day in the rest of the life of a major work. The concerto's first performance was early in 2007 by the New York Philharmonic. Salonen conducted, and Yefim Bronfman, for whom the concerto was written and to whom it is dedicated, was soloist. Salonen and Bronfman recorded the concerto in Los Angeles last year at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the CD was released in the U.S. in April to coincide with Salonen's final concerts as Los Angeles Philharmonic music director.

Stephane Deneve is a popular young conductor who seems on the verge of landing a major orchestra. He is well liked by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its audiences. So it was amusing -- even heartwarming -- to sense the obvious delight at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night despite Deneve's cancellation. The news was good all around. One young French conductor had been happily sidelined by the birth of his first child. Another very young Frenchman happened to be on hand to happily take over the program.

Stephane Deneve is a popular young conductor who seems on the verge of landing a major orchestra. He is well liked by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and its audiences. So it was amusing -- even heartwarming -- to sense the obvious delight at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Thursday night despite Deneve's cancellation. The news was good all around. One young French conductor had been happily sidelined by the birth of his first child. Another very young Frenchman happened to be on hand to happily take over the program.

Esa-Pekka Salonen's Piano Concerto received a brightly confident performance at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night. The date marks the first day in the rest of the life of a major work. The concerto's first performance was early in 2007 by the New York Philharmonic. Salonen conducted, and Yefim Bronfman, for whom the concerto was written and to whom it is dedicated, was soloist. Salonen and Bronfman recorded the concerto in Los Angeles last year at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the CD was released in the U.S. in April to coincide with Salonen's final concerts as Los Angeles Philharmonic music director.

For many people, turning 21 is an excuse for lots of partying and drinking. But for Lionel Bringuier, who turned 21 this week, marking that milestone is shaping up as a much more sober affair: He will make his debut today as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new assistant conductor -- the youngest in the orchestra's history. Yet Bringuier, who hails from Nice, France, doesn't want people to focus on his age. In fact, he's eager to avoid the subject.

FRENCH conductor Lionel Bringuier, who turned 20 on Sept. 24, has been named assistant conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic beginning in 2007. Currently assistant conductor of the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, he will be the youngest assistant conductor in the Philharmonic's 87-year history. "For a Frenchman, it's really a dream to come to the United States," Bringuier said Wednesday by phone from Nice, France, his birthplace.