Conductor
Biography
Born in Tel Aviv in 1950, David Shallon studied conducting with Noam Sheriff and then in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky, and spent five years as Leonard Bernstein's assistant — stepping in for him in Fidelio at the Vienna Staatsoper in 1979. He directed the Düsseldorf Symphony from 1987 to 1993, the Jerusalem Symphony from 1992 and the Luxembourg Philharmonic from 1997, and appeared with the London Symphony, the Orchestre National de France, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Israel Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony. He conducted works and premieres by Dutilleux, Berio, Henze, Nono and Penderecki, and in 1980 he conducted the first Jesu Hochzeit of Gottfried von Einem. He died in Tokyo in 2000, at forty-nine. His recordings include viola concertos with Tabea Zimmermann.