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André Previn Conductor
Principal Guest Conductor, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Laureate, London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor, composer, and pianist André Previn has received a number of awards and honors for his outstanding musical accomplishments. He continues to redefine the possibilities in his extraordinary career. Mr. Previn is one of the most distinguished musicians of our time. He holds both the Austrian and German Cross of Merit, received the Kennedy Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, was honored as Musical America’s “Musician of the Year” in 1999, and was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1996. He received the Glenn Gould Prize in Toronto in 2006.
André Previn has received several Grammy Awards, most recently in 2005 for the recordings of his violin concerto “Anne-Sophie” and Bernstein’s Serenade featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter together with the Boston and London Symphony Orchestras.
A frequent guest with the world’s major orchestras – both in concert and on recordings – André Previn has worked frequently with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Vienna Philharmonic. In addition, he has held the chief artistic posts with such orchestras as the Houston Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Royal Philharmonic.
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