2011

Jan 1, 2011

Conducts world premiere of Hosokawa’s opera Matsukaze in Brussels in collaboration with Sasha Waltz & Guests; Receives Diapason d’Or for Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (DVD); Nomination for a Dora Mavor Moore Awards of the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) in the category of Outstanding Musical Direction for John Adams’ Nixon in China, Canadian Opera Company; Appointed Principal Conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (four-year term)

Debuts

Berlin Philharmonic
Boston Symphony Orchestra in Tanglewood
Canadian Opera Company
Houston Symphony
Rotterdam Philharmonic
Essener Philharmoniker
Mariinsky Theatre St. Petersburg
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Radio Filharmonisch Orkest
Orchestra of St. Luke’s

Honors

Nomination for a Dora Mavor Moore Awards of the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) in the category of Outstanding Musical Direction for John Adams’ Nixon in China, Canadian Opera Company

Operatic projects

John Adams’ Nixon in China, Canadian Opera Company
Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, Canadian Opera Company