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Schwarz to work with Liverpool Philharmonic
Thursday, February 10, 2000
Gerard Schwarz, music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, will become music director of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra next year, it was announced in England yesterday.
He will retain his position as music director of the Seattle Symphony and the New York Chamber Symphony. Schwarz also is music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. He announced last year he would leave that post in 2001.
In the past, Schwarz has conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, although he had no formal position. As music director, he will conduct the orchestra 12 weeks each season. His contract runs for five years.
Previous music directors of the orchestra, founded in 1840, include Max Bruch, Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir Charles Groves. Schwarz succeeds Czech conductor Libor Pesek, who left the orchestra in 1997 after a 12-year appointment. Petr Altrichter was principal conductor in the interim.
-- R.M. Campbell
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