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Derek Gleeson is an Irish/American musician. He was born in Dublin, on 28 February 1964. He is currently the music director and conductor of the Dublin Philharmonic Orchestra since 1997 and is also the conductor at the Anna Livia Dublin International Opera Festival. Since 2012 Gleeson is also music director & conductor of the Rachmaninov Festival Orchestra. He also composes musical scores for film and television〔(IMDB reference )/〕 and of symphonic music for the concert hall. ==Early musical life== At age twelve, Gleeson was timpanist of the Irish Youth Orchestra. At age fifteen he joined the European Community Youth Orchestra (ECYO) (now the European Union Youth Orchestra, EUYO) as percussionist and timpanist, where he had the opportunity to work under the great conducting masters of the day, including Herbert Von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti and Daniel Barenboim, whilst performing, amongst others, at the Salzburg Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, Lucerne Festival as well as at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. In parallel, he was also a member of "EuroJazz" The European Community Youth Jazz Orchestra and NYJO, The National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Great Britain, with whom he featured as Vibraphone soloist in the CD release of Paul Hart's Concerto for Classical Guitar and Jazz Orchestra, written for Guitarist John Williams, released on CBS Records. At 15 years old, as freelance timpanist and percussionist, Gleeson began working with the RTE Concert Orchestra and the RTE Symphony Orchestra while still attending High School. Between 1979 and 1989 he performed as a freelance orchestral player with many of the prominent British Orchestras, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. In 1984 he was a prize winner in the Shell/London Symphony Orchestra Music Scholarship. During this period he also worked as a Studio Session Musician, principally as a Keyboardist and Piano player for pop/rock and commercial recording sessions. Gleeson studied Piano and Timpani & Percussion at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and Composition and Film Scoring at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Whilst living and studying conducting in Vienna at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien(University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna) Gleeson sang second bass with Gunther Theuring's, Wiener Jeunesse-Chor, with whom he performed with the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Musikverein. (Gleeson also studied Voice periodically with the famed Irish vocal teacher Veronica Dunne at the Dublin Institute of Technology Conservatory of Music & Drama. In 1989, Gleeson "won" a US Green Card (NP-5 Visa) in the US Donnelly Visa lottery and moved to Los Angeles where he attended UCLA, studying Film Scoring and Composition. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Derek Gleeson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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