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Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (born 26 January 1981) is a
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n conductor. He is currently the music director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the
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. He is scheduled to become the Music and Artistic Director of the
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in 2026.


Early life

Dudamel was born in
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,
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, the son of a trombonist and a voice teacher. He studied music from an early age. In 1986 he became involved with El Sistema, the famous Venezuelan social action music programme, initially learning the violin. He soon began to study
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. He attended the Jacinto Lara Conservatory, where José Luis Jiménez was among his violin teachers. He then went on to work with José Francisco del Castillo at the Latin-American Violin Academy. Dudamel began to study conducting in 1995, first with Rodolfo Saglimbeni, then later with José Antonio Abreu. In 1999, he was appointed music director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, the national youth orchestra of Venezuela, and toured several countries. He attended Charles Dutoit's master class in
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, Argentina in 2002, and worked as assistant conductor to Simon Rattle in
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, Germany and
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, Austria in 2003.


Career


Conducting

Dudamel won a number of competitions, including the
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in Germany in 2004. His reputation began to spread, attracting the attention of conductors such as Simon Rattle and
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, who accepted invitations to conduct the Simón Bolívar Orchestra in Veneite. In April 2006 Dudamel was appointed as principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony for the 2007/2008 season. Dudamel made his debut at
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, Milan, with ''
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'' in November 2006. On 10 September 2007, he conducted the
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for the first time at the Lucerne Festival. On 16 April 2007 he conducted the
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at the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall in a concert in commemoration of the 80th birthday of
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, with
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as solo violinist, the Pope and many other Church dignitaries were among the audience. In 2013, El Sistema arranged for Dudamel to conduct the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra during the funeral of
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, which was attended by nearly two dozen heads of state. In 2015, Dudamel conducted both the opening and end titles, at the request of
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, for the official motion picture soundtrack and film of '' Star Wars: The Force Awakens''. At the 2016
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, Dudamel and Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) accompanied
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and sang along with
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,
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, and
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. On 1 January 2017, Dudamel conducted the
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in the New Year's Day Concert, the youngest conductor to lead this event. In December 2018, he made his debut at the
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in
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, conducting Verdi's ''
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''. Dudamel served as the 2018–2019 artist-in-residence at
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in
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near New York, in celebration of Princeton University Concerts' 125th anniversary. This engagement included cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural panels & discussions, chamber concerts featuring musicians from his associated orchestras (the Met, in NYC; Los Angeles; and Berlin), and in April 2019, Dudamel conducted the Princeton University Orchestra and the Princeton University Glee Club as the culmination of his year-long residency. Dudamel first guest-conducted at the
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in 2017. In April 2021, the Opéra National de Paris announced the appointment of Dudamel as its next music director, effective 1 August 2021, with an initial contract of six seasons. In May 2023, Dudamel announced his resignation as music director of the Opéra National de Paris, effective August 2023. Dudamel conducted the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra during its appearance at the 2023
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. It was the first time he had conducted the orchestra since 2017.


Los Angeles Philharmonic

Dudamel made his US conducting debut with the
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(LAP) at the
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on 13 September 2005 in a program consisting of " La Noche de los Mayas" by
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and
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's Symphony No. 5. Dudamel was subsequently invited back to conduct the orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Hall in January 2007 in performances of " Dances of Galánta" by
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, the third piano concerto of
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with Yefim Bronfman as soloist, and
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's Concerto for Orchestra (the latter of which was recorded live and subsequently released by
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). In April 2007, the LAP announced the appointment of Dudamel as its next music director, effective with the 2009–2010 season. His initial contract in Los Angeles was for five years, beginning in September 2009. In February 2011, the orchestra announced the extension of Dudamel's contract through the end of the 2018–2019 season. In March 2015, the orchestra announced a further extension of his Los Angeles Philharmonic contract through the 2021–2022 season. In January 2020, the LAP announced a further extension of his contract through the 2025–2026 season. In February 2023, the LAP announced that Dudamel is to conclude his music directorship of the orchestra at the close of the 2025–2026 season.


New York Philharmonic

Dudamel first guest-conducted the
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in 2007. Following 26 additional guest-conducting appearances with the orchestra, the New York Philharmonic announced the appointment of Dudamel as its next Music and Artistic Director, the first
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named to the post, effective with the 2026–2027 season, with an initial contract of 5 years. Dudamel will first serve as Music Director Designate during the 2025–2026 season, leading up to his official start in his role as Music and Artistic Director the following year.


Awards and media

Dudamel is featured in the documentary film ''Tocar y Luchar'', which covers El Sistema. Dudamel and the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar received the WQXR Gramophone Special Recognition Award in New York City in November 2007. Another US television news feature on Dudamel was on ''
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'' in February 2008, entitled "Gustavo the Great." On 23 July 2009, Dudamel was selected by the Eighth Glenn Gould Prize laureate José Antonio Abreu as winner of the prestigious
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. Dudamel was named one of
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magazine's most influential 100 people in 2010. Dudamel is featured in the 2011 documentary ''Let the Children Play'', a film which focuses on his work advocating for music as a way to enrich children's lives. '' Gramophone'' named Dudamel its 2011 Gramophone Artist of the Year. Also in 2011, he was inducted into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In February 2012, Dudamel won a
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for Best Orchestral Performance, for his recording of Brahms Symphony No. 4 for the label
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. In 2013, Dudamel was named Musical America's Musician of the Year and was inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame. Dudamel received the Leonard Bernstein Lifetime Achievement Award for the Elevation of Music in Society from the Longy School in 2014 and the Americas Society Cultural Achievement Award in 2016. The character of Rodrigo in Amazon's '' Mozart in the Jungle'' was based, in part, on Dudamel. In the first episode of the show's second season, in which Rodrigo appears as a guest conductor for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dudamel appears as a guest actor, playing the part of a stage manager. In June 2018, Dudamel received Chile's Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit. Also in June, the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA) awarded Dudamel the Paez Medal of Art 2018. On 18 October 2018, Dudamel was announced as the 25th recipient of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. Dudamel received a star on the
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on 22 January 2019. At the
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the Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance was given to the Dudamel-conducted 2019 recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 8. In the summer of 2019, Dudamel conducted the orchestra during the recording sessions for
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's 2021
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of ''
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''. In 2020, Dudamel made a cameo appearance as Trollzart in Dreamworks' Trolls World Tour. In April 2023, Dudamel was elected into the
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. On 23 May 2024, Dudamel was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Music from Harvard University. In 2024, Dudamel received the Golden Plate Award of the
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, presented by Awards Council member
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on the stage of
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at
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in New York City. He is a foreign member of the
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. In 2025, At 67th Annual Grammy Awards, Gustavo Dudamel won
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for his track "Ortiz: Revolución Diamantina" under category Best Classical Compendium.


Political views

Writing for an op-ed in the ''
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'' in 2015, he argued that taking sides in Venezuela's conflict could politicize El Sistema, which could be a threat to the institution, saying: "For those who think I've been silent too long, I say, don't mistake my lack of a political stance for a lack of compassion or ideals." After the killing of El Sistema violist Armando Cañizales during the 2017 Venezuelan protests, Dudamel condemned
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's response to the demonstrations for the first time, writing in social media: "I raise my voice against violence and repression. Nothing can justify bloodshed. Enough of ignoring the just clamor of a people suffocated by an intolerable crisis." In 2019, in a speech accepting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, he said that it should belong to Venezuela, and that "tomorrow 3 Jan. 2019is a crucial day ndthe voice of the masses must be heard and respected", referring to the planned national protest on that date and the Venezuelan presidential crisis. In 2022, he returned to Venezuela and reconnected with family and friends as well as students and teachers at El Sistema. Speaking about El Sistema, Dudamel said, "I have made it my personal mission not to rest until music is truly a fundamental human right for everyone. El Sistema has endured through seven different governments in Venezuela. It is not about politics. It is about the shared belief that art must be a part of the fabric of society". He considered that the political situation in the country had improved but that there were still problems that needed to be addressed, saying: "People have the desire to get out of this unrest — this political, ideological unrest — and really make things move forward" and that “There has been a change, but we need to keep working to make things better because they are still very difficult.”


Personal life

Dudamel has been married twice. His first marriage, in 2006, was to Eloísa Maturén in Caracas. Maturén, also a Venezuelan native, is a classically trained ballet dancer and a journalist. The two had a son, Martín Dudamel Maturén, on 1 April 2011. In March 2015, Dudamel and Maturén divorced. In February 2017, Dudamel secretly married Spanish actress María Valverde, whom he had first met in 2016, in
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. He became a Spanish citizen in 2018.


Discography

2006 *
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: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 / the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of VenezuelaCD 2007 * Birthday Concert for
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: Symphony No. 5 [w/ the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela] CD * Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra [w/ the
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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dudamel, Gustavo 1981 births 21st-century Venezuelan conductors (music) 21st-century Venezuelan male musicians City of Toronto's Glenn Gould Protégé Prize winners Deutsche Grammophon artists Grammy Award winners Living people Venezuelan male conductors (music) Naturalised citizens of Spain People from Barquisimeto Venezuelan classical musicians Venezuelan expatriates in the United States Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Music directors of the Los Angeles Philharmonic The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize winners