Alan Buribayev ( kz, Алан Бөрібаев, ''Alan Börıbaev''; surname also spelled Buribaev in English) (born 30 May 1979) is a
Kazakh
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orchestral conductor.
Career
The son of a cellist/conductor father and a pianist mother, he studied violin and conducting at th
Kazakh National Conservatoryin
Almaty
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. He was later a conducting student of Uros Lajovic in Vienna. Buribayev won prizes in the
International Competition of Young Conductors Lovro von Matačić in Zagreb and in the Antonio Pedrotti Competition in 2001.
Buribayev began his tenure as Principal Conductor of the
Astana
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The city lies on the banks of the Ishim River in the north-central part of Kazakhstan, within the Akmola Region, tho ...
Symphony Orchestra,
Kazakhstan
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, in March 2003, and had concluded his tenure by 2007. From 2004 to 2007, Buribayev was "Generalmusikdirektor" of the
Meiningen
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Germany
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. He became Principal Conductor of the
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra in the 2007–2008 season, with an initial contract through 2010.
He became chief conductor of
Het Brabants Orkest in the Netherlands with the 2008–2009 season.
From 2010 to 2016, he was Principal Conductor of the
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland. Today he is Chief Conductor of the Astana Opera House and Principal Guest Conductor of the Japan Century Symphony Orchestra in Osaka.
References
External links
IMG Artists agency biography of Alan Buribaev
French-language biography of Alan Buribaev
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1979 births
Kazakhstani conductors (music)
Living people
21st-century conductors (music)