~ founded 1851 ~
the oldest German singing society in the Washington area
2434 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20007
website: www.saengerbund.org -- phone hotline: 202-310-4691
Aus Deutschen Kreisen
David Montgomery is Music Director of the Prince William Symphony Orchestra and Prince William Baroque in northern Virginia.He trained as a pianist and opera conductor at the Oberlin Conservatory and the Berlin Hochschule für Musik, and later with René Leibowitz in Paris. He was an opera chorusmaster in Giessen, Germany, and later made his debut at the Lyon Opera in France. In the U.S. he was on staff at the San Francisco Opera and the Opera Company of Boston. He appeared onscreen for Columbia Pictures in 1993 and behind the scenes as historical consultant for Martin Scorsese´s The Age of Innocence. For some years he worked for Sony Classical in New York, London and Hamburg as an editor and performance advisor for Sony, BMG, Deutsche Grammophon and others. From 1995 to 2000 he served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Jena Philharmonic in the former East Germany, bringing that orchestra into international prominence for the first time since it was conducted in the early 20th century by Max Reger. He made seven recordings with the Jena Philharmonic on the BMG Arte Nova label in repertoire ranging from Beethoven and Berwald to Hanson, Bernstein, Shostakovich and Villa-Lobos.
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