大衛．胡斯 David Hoose

大衛．胡斯擔任波士頓清唱劇聖歌與管弦樂團的音樂總監已37年，也在拼貼新音樂樂團擔任音樂總監達29年之久。他曾連續11個樂季擔任塔哈拉西交響樂團的音樂總監，也是波士頓大學的榮譽教授，並曾在音樂學院擔任29年的樂團事務主任。

胡斯先生曾擔任眾多樂團的客座指揮，包括聖路易交響樂團、猶他交響樂團、芝加哥愛樂、新加坡交響樂團、韓國廣播交響樂團、佛羅倫斯托斯卡納管弦樂團、闊德城交響樂團，並在檀格塢、摩納德納克、威爾布克與新罕布夏等音樂節演出。他也指揮過恐龍室內樂團、弗朗姆室內樂團，歐羅現代室內樂團，以及艾利亞三室內樂團等新樂團；另也多次擔任艾曼紐聖樂協會、專業藝術室內管弦樂團（皆位於波士頓）的客座指揮，亦曾與韓德爾與海頓協會、後灣合唱團、音樂合唱團，以及波士頓交響室內樂團合作。

胡斯因為「提升捷克作曲家迪斯馬斯．澤倫卡在美國的知名度」，而於2017年獲得捷克政府頒發的馬薩里克榮譽銀勳章。波士頓市政府宣佈2017年11月3號為「大衛．胡斯日」，因為「他對於波士頓與全球的音樂界都貢獻良多」。他因為促進美國音樂有功而獲頒迪岑指揮獎，也獲得合唱藝術新英格蘭派特森終身成就獎。胡斯與拼貼新音樂樂團合作錄製約翰．哈伯森的《蒙塔萊經文歌》，曾獲得葛萊美獎「最佳小團體錄音（有指揮或無指揮）」提名；他與清唱劇聖歌與管弦樂團獲得美國作曲家、作家與出版商協會/合唱協會頒發的最佳編排新曲目獎。因為致力於推廣東歐、俄羅斯與前蘇聯的文化，胡斯獲得俄羅斯芭蕾舞團藝術計畫肯定；塔哈拉西市則於2004年4月宣佈制定「大衛．胡斯週」，肯定他對該市與鄰近地區的文化生活的卓越貢獻。胡斯先生在法國號演奏與指揮方面的表現，則讓他在1986年被《波士頓環球報》選為「年度音樂家」；與艾曼紐木管五重奏的合作也使他在1981年獲得納姆伯格室內音樂獎。

二十多年來，每逢暑假，胡斯就會指導波士頓大學檀格塢音樂中心的青年藝術家管絃樂團。他也曾於萊斯大學牧人音樂學院、南加大、伊士曼音樂學院，並多次於新英格蘭音樂學院以及曼哈頓音樂學院擔任客座指揮。2006年到2010年，奧勒岡州波特蘭市玫瑰城國際指揮工作坊也邀請他去授課。他先前在波士頓大學指導過的眾多學生，現在都在歌劇院、大學管弦樂團與專業管弦樂團擔任重要的總監職務。

他與拼貼新音樂樂團及清唱劇聖歌與管弦樂團的錄音作品，由新世界、阿爾巴尼、Nonesuch、科赫國際、Delos、CRI、Gun-Mar等唱片公司發行。胡斯先生曾在奧柏林音樂學院學習作曲，師從理查．霍夫曼以及華特．阿沙芬堡；另外也在布蘭戴斯大學於阿瑟．貝格爾以及哈羅德．夏皮洛麾下學習。他曾向塔克威、辛格、邁基與傅萊斯學習法國號；至於指揮則是在檀格塢音樂中心師事古斯塔夫．邁爾。胡斯的夫人為指揮家艾美．利伯曼。此次為胡斯先生第二度與國立臺灣交響樂團合作演出。

David Hoose has been Music Director of the Boston-based Cantata Singers & Ensemble for thirty-seven years, and Music Director of Collage New Music for twenty-nine years. For eleven seasons, he was Music Director of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, and he is Professor emeritus at Boston University, where, for twenty-nine years, he was Director of Orchestral Activities in the School of Music.

Mr. Hoose has appeared as guest conductor with the St. Louis Symphony, Utah Symphony, Chicago Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Orchestra Regionale Toscana (Firenze IT), Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Tanglewood, Monadnock, Warebrook, and New Hampshire music festivals. He has also conducted the new music ensembles Dinosaur Annex, Fromm Chamber Players, Auros, and Alea III. He has also appeared as guest conductor numerous times with Emmanuel Music and with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra (both of Boston), and he has conducted the Handel & Haydn Society, Back Bay Chorale, Chorus pro Musica, and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players.

In 2017, Mr. Hoose received the Silver Jan Masaryk Honorary Medal, presented “by the Czech Republic for [his] role in raising the profile of Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka’s music in the United States.” The City of Boston proclaimed November 3, 2017, as “David Hoose Day,” for his “enormous contribution to the musical community both here in Boston and around the world.” He is also recipient of the Ditson Conductors Award for the Advancement of American Music, and the Choral Arts New England Alfred Nash Patterson Lifetime Achievement Award, and his recording of John Harbison’s Mottetti di Montale, with Collage New Music, was a Grammy Nomination for “Best Recording with Small Ensemble, With or Without Conductor.” He received, with Cantata Singers, the ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming; he was honored by the Ballets Russes Arts Initiative for his contributions to the understanding and appreciation of culture from Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union; and in April 2004, the City of Tallahassee proclaimed “David Hoose Week,” for his service to the cultural life of the city and region. For his performances as horn player and as conductor, Mr. Hoose was named “Musician of the Year” in 1986, by the Boston Globe, and with the Emmanuel Wind Quintet, he received the 1981 Walter W. Naumburg Award for Chamber Music.

For more than twenty summers, Mr. Hoose led the Young Artists Orchestra of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and he has been guest conductor at the Shepherd School at Rice University, University of Southern California, Eastman School, and several times at the New England Conservatory and at the Manhattan School. From 2006 to 2010, he taught at the Rose City International Conducting Workshop, in Portland, Oregon. Most of his former conducting students from Boston University now hold music distinguished directorships with opera companies, university orchestras, and professional orchestras.

His recordings with Collage and Cantata Signers appear on the New World, Albany, Nonesuch, Koch International, Delos, CRI, and Gun-Mar labels. Mr. Hoose studied composition at the Oberlin Conservatory with Richard Hoffmann and Walter Aschaffenburg, and at Brandeis University with Arthur Berger and Harold Shapero. He studied horn with Barry Tuckwell, Joseph Singer, Richard Mackey and Robert Fries, and his conducting studies were with Gustav Meier at the Tanglewood Music Center. Mr. Hoose is married to the conductor Amy Lieberman. This is Mr. Hoose’s second appearance with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.