Earl, Hobart

Hobart Earle ( born Hobart Earle ; born 1960 , Caracas ) - American conductor. People's Artist of Ukraine ( 2013 ) ^[1] .

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Date of Birth	December 20, 1960 ( 1960-12-20 ) (58 years old)
Place of Birth
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Professions	conductor
Years of activity	1991-present time
Genres	Symphony Orchestra
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Hobart Earle was born in Venezuela , in a family of Americans, where his father, a businessman, was engaged in insurance business, and his mother worked as a choirmaster. A graduate of the British Gordonston School in Scotland, and London Trinity College. In school, he played the clarinet and began to try himself as a conductor ^[2] . In 1983 he graduated from the Faculty of Music at Princeton University , where he studied composition, musical analysis and theories by Milton Babbitt , Edward Cone and Claudio Spies , as well as conducting under the direction of Michael Pratt , now calling him a born conductor, who did not have to learn much ^[3] . Earl later studied at the Tanglewood Music Center with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa and trained at the Karl Esterreicher at the Vienna Academy of Music .

In 1987 , he founded a chamber orchestra in Vienna specializing in the performance of American music in Austria and Austrian music in the USA. With this team he made a number of records and several world premieres.

Since 1991 , lives and works in Odessa , artistic director and chief conductor of the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra . When he first arrived in Odessa with a tour of his Vienna team, Earl was invited to first perform with a local orchestra, and then to lead it. Earl’s initial salary was equivalent to 50 US dollars ^[2] , and communication with the orchestra was through a Cuban violist, whom Earle addressed in Spanish, who translated the rest into Russian ^[4] . Under the direction of Earl, the orchestra, which had previously had exclusively regional significance, was launched internationally, making its debut on the international stage in the spring of 1992 at the American Music Festival in Bregenz (Austria), and on November 30, 1993, for the first time in its history, performed at Carnegie Hall ^{[2 ]} . Earl significantly updated the repertoire of the orchestra, introducing the compositions of British composers (in particular, Edward Elgar and Gustav Holst ), the late Viennese classics (under the direction of Hobart, the orchestra, in particular, first performed the Second , Third , Sixth and Ninth Symphonies of Gustav Mahler ^[5] ), American music. At the same time, Earl pays attention to the popularization of Ukrainian academic music: in particular, he recorded discs with the works of Nikolai Kolesa , Miroslav Skorik , Evgeniy Stankovich ^[6] .