Gustavo Dudamel

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Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (born January 26, 1981) is a Venezuelan conductor and violinist. He is currently the principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony in Gothenburg, Sweden, and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California. Dudamel is also the artistic director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar in ... Show more »

I think it's a very important collaboration between conductor and orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orches...Show more »

I think it's a very important collaboration between conductor and orchestra - especially when the conductor is one more member of the orchestra in the way that you are leading, but also respecting, feeling and building the same way for all the players to understand the music. Show less «

People say that having three orchestras is a crazy life, but it's better because I have three families. I want to have my own kids very soon...Show more »

People say that having three orchestras is a crazy life, but it's better because I have three families. I want to have my own kids very soon. In future, I still want to conduct a lot - but less - to be with my family. Show less «

I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, t...Show more »

I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a few pages of literature, then I jump to philosophy, and at the same time I'm reading biographies of Mahler. Show less «

Well, how cool, how good that we are young! Young, but I believe that we have a very mature soul. We are young, but we are old!