After a 13-year tenure, Long Beach Symphony Orchestra (LBSO) Music Director Enrique Arturo Diemecke has announced he will step down at the end of the 2013-14 classics season.
“My years on the podium of the wonderful Long Beach Symphony Orchestra have been filled with joy,” said Maestro Diemecke in a release. “The orchestra and I have had great musical adventures and many sublime concerts that I will take with me for the rest of my days.”
Diemecke’s work since taking on the classical world in the ’80s has garnered him praise from the New York Times as a conductor with “fierceness and authority” following his conduction of National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico for Silvestre Revueltas’s “Night of the Mayas.”
For Diemecke, Long Beach alone is not his home. He also just completed his third season as Music Director of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, his eighth as Music Director of the Bogóta Philharmonic, his 25th as Music Director of the Flint Symphony Orchestra, and will, according to LBSO, perform in engagements throughout Europe and the Americas.
His special appearances at orchestras is no less staggering, having been featured in the United States alone at The National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonica, Pacific Symphony, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Houston, Minnesota, Colorado, Fort Worth, San Antonio, Chautauqua, Pacific, Charlotte, Winnipeg, Phoenix, Hartford and Columbus. In Europe, Diemecke has led the BBC Symphonies of London and Liverpool, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, French National Orchestra, National Philharmonic of Montpellier, l’Orchestre National de Lorraine, L’Orchestre de Paris, L’Orchestre de Isle de France, the Valladolid Symphony, the ORCAM Madrid, and the Residentie Orkest in The Hague.
Diemecke is also one of the world’s most renowned interpreters of famed Austrian composer Gustav Mahler, garnering Diemecke a medal from the Mahler Society for his work with the deceased composer’s symphonies.
LBSO has not yet announced a replacement for Diemecke.
The LBSO Association plans to celebrate Maestro Diemecke at Long Beach Symphony’s Classics finale on May 31, 2014, at the Terrace Theater, located at 300 E Ocean Blvd.
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