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IRWIN HOFFMAN, Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia
assumed the post in 2000. During the period 1987 to 2001 he was the Artistic
Director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, group that he took on
tour to the Far East, North America and Europe in several occasions.
IRWIN HOFFMAN was also Artistic Director and Conductor of the Symphony
Orchestra of Santiago, Chile; the Flagstaff Festival for the Arts and the
Florida Orchestra that he conducted for several years since its founding in
1968.
Prior to his position in Florida, IRWIN HOFFMAN was Acting Music Director of
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra following a period as Associate Conductor. He
went to Chicago following a position as Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra in Canada which he held for twelve seasons.
For four seasons IRWIN HOFFMAN served as Music Director of the Belgium Radio
and TV Symphony Orchestra. He toured Poland with the orchestra including
performances during the Warsaw’s Autumn Festival of Contemporary Music.
He has guest conducted some of the world’s finest orchestras including the
BBC Symphony Orchestras of England, Scotland and Wales, London Philharmonic,
Orchestre National de France, Radio Symphony of Strasbourg, Poznan Philharmonic,
Orchestre de Liege, CBC Toronto, Winnipeg and Kitchener orchestras and the
Israel Philharmonic, among many others.
In Central and South America IRWIN HOFFMAN has conducted the Orquestra
Sinfónica Brasileira, Sodre Orchestra (Uruguay), National Orchestras of Peru and
El Salvador, National Symphony of Argentina, the UNAM of Mexico city and the
Orquesta Sinfónica de Caracas, Venezuela.
In the United States IRWIN HOFFMAN has conducted the orchestras of St. Louis,
Pittsburgh, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, Honolulu, Buffalo, Ravinia Festival and
Grant Park, among others.
Born in New York City, IRWIN HOFFMAN began playing the violin and piano at
the age of six. A graduate of Juilliard School of Music, he spent summers
studying with Serge Koussevitzki at the Berkshire Music Festival.
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