American conductor, artistic director, chief conductor of the National Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra, People's Artist of Ukraine (2013).
Biography
He was born in 1961 in Caracas (Venezuela) in a family of US citizens: his father is an employee of an insurance company and his mother is a conductor of a church choir. 3 For 11 years, he studied at the elite Scottish boarding school Gordonstown (Great Britain). In 1983, he graduated from the music faculty of Princeton University (USA) as a composer and conductor. He continued his studies at the Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts in the conducting class of Professor Karp Oesterreicher. Trained at international conducting master classes with Ferdinand Leitner (Salzburg, Austria), Otto-Werner Müller (USA), Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa (Tanglewood, USA, 1987). Received a performance diploma as a clarinetist at London's Trinity College of Music.
In 1987-1991, he founded and managed the Vienna Ensemble of American Music / New York Ensemble of Viennese Music, with which he performed little-known works by composers of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, performed more than 10 world premieres of works by contemporary composers in Vienna, New York, Los Angeles, Washington and recorded 2 CDs with works by American composers George Whitefield Chadwick, Henry Gilbert and Miguel del Aquila.
Since 1991, he has been the artistic director and chief conductor of the Odesa State Regional Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, with whom he toured several times in Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine, as well as abroad, in particular in such halls as Musikferain (Vienna, Austria), Barbican Hall ( London, Great Britain), National Auditorium (Madrid, Spain), Cologne Philharmonic (Germany), Great Halls of the Moscow Conservatory and St. Petersburg Philharmonic (Russia), Carnegie Hall and the UN General Assembly Hall (New York, USA), Kennedy - center (Washington, USA), Academy named after F. Lista (Budapest, Hungary). He performed many Odesa and Ukrainian premieres of works by world-famous composers, recorded symphonic music by M. Skoryk, E. Stankovych and M. Kolessa on a CD.
Hobart Earl has conducted the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Tonkünstler Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra della Toscana (Italy), Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (Italy), Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (Spain), Noord Nederlands Orkest (Netherlands), Athens State Symphony Orchestra, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of the Krakow Philharmonic, Sinfonia Iuventus (Warsaw), Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, State Academic Symphony Orchestra named after E.F. Svetlanova, State Symphony Orchestra "New Russia" with Yury Bashmet, Moscow State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra "Russian Philharmonic", Academic Symphony Orchestra of St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Taipei Symphony Orchestra and others. The list of orchestras Maestro Earle has conducted in the United States includes Delaware Philharmonic, Florida Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, North Carolina Symphony, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Miami Symphony, Orchestra of the Americas.
He collaborated with the Lviv and Kharkiv Opera Theaters, the National Opera of Ukraine, the Donbas Opera, the Bolshoi Theater of Belarus, and also performed several new productions at the National Opera of Greece and the Mythos Opera Festival (Italy).
Performed with outstanding singers, such as: Olena Obraztsova, Maria Gulegina, Iryna Bogachova, Lyudmila Monastyrska, Paata Burchuladze, Volodymyr Chernov, Anatoly Solovyanenko, Zurab Sotkilava, as well as with many outstanding soloists, such as: pianists Dmytro Alekseev, Petro Andershevsky . violinists Pavlo Berman, Boris Brovtsyn, Vadym Gluzman, Liana Isakadze, Serhiy Krylov, Viktor Pikaizen, Valery Sokolov, Oleksiy Semenenko and Viktor Tretyakov; violist Yuriy Bashmet; cellists David Geringas, Steven Isserlis, Oleksandr Knyazev, Daniel Muller-Schott, Oleksiy Stadler, Matt Haimowitz.
Flash mob at "Privoz"
On March 22, 2014, musicians of the National Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra and choir singers under the leadership of Hobart Earl organized a flash mob at the Privoz market in Odesa. They, imperceptibly and suddenly appearing among the buyers in the shopping rows, performed "Ode to Joy" from Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which is the Anthem of the European Union. In this way, the musicians supported the unity of Ukraine with Europe. The audience thanked the orchestra players and their director with thunderous applause.
Records
Hobart Earl recorded the works of such composers as Mykola Kolessa, Myroslav Skoryk, Yevhen Stankovich and Reingold Glier.
His performance of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 at the Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna was recorded live by Austrian Radio and the recording was awarded "Best Classical Album of 2002" at the "JPFolks Music Awards" in Hollywood, CaliforniaI.
His recording of works by Ukrainian composer Myroslav Skoryk was chosen by Naxos CEO Klaus Heiman in the Chairman's Choice 2014 - Klaus Heiman's Favorite Naxos Releases.
He recorded with the National Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra on the Naxos and ASV labels, with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia named after E.F. Svetlanova - at the company "Toccata Records" and "Naxos".
Awards
People's Artist of Ukraine (June 27, 2013) — for significant personal contribution to state building, socio-economic, scientific-technical, cultural-educational development of Ukraine, significant labor achievements and high professionalism
Honored Artist of Ukraine (1994).
He has the honorary award of the mayor of Odesa "For services to the city" (2004). Honorary citizen of Odesa.
In 2003, as part of the "People's Recognition" nomination, the Russian Cosmonaut Association named one of the stars in the Perseus constellation "Hobart Earl"
