MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 8 - Pollitt conducting
the final moments of this massive work performed by over 300 musicians -
full orchestra, two choruses, seven soloists, a boys choir and a brass
choir.
COLLAGE - This fast-paced concert format developed by Pollitt captures
the imagination of children. CINE Golden Eagle Award for the PBS/SCETV
documentary, "Collage".
LISTEN - THE UNHEARD VOICES OF ANIMALS - A multimedia, one-woman show
was conceived and directed by Pollitt as a way of highlighting the
similarities between the emotions within animals and those within
humans. |
David
Szent-Györgyi Pollitt inaugurated
Italy's
1999 Spoleto Festival conducting the acclaimed Spoleto Festival Orchestra with
the film collaboration of Prokofief and Eisenstein, Alexander Nevsky in
the famous Piazza del Duomo.
Maestro Pollitt has been a regular conductor of the Istanbul Symphony
leading them in concerts in their regular season in
Istanbul
(2001, 2002) and in a six concert summer series at the ancient.
In October of 1998, Maestro Pollitt opened the First International
Eurasian Festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan,
where he presented The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein with the
new Shostakovich score in honor of the 50th anniversary of
Eisenstein’s death.
Subsequently, Maestro Pollitt presented this unique symphonic/film
presentation to two sold-out houses at the renowned Istanbul international
Film Festival.
From 1995 to 2002, he was a regularly invited conductor of the Orquesta
Filarmonica de Montevideo in Montevideo,
Uruguay.
Typical of the critical praise he has received is the following:
“It has been many years since we have seen all the musicians
standing up after the intermission to applaud the conductor.”
El Pais, Montevideo.
He continues to receive wide international acclaim in such appearances
as the Zenei Festival Budapest and with the Szeged Philharmonic in
Szeged,
Hungary – the
birthplace of his grandfather, Albert Szent-Györgyi, winner of the 1937
Nobel Prize for the discovery of Vitamin C.
Pollitt has conducted the Shanghai Symphony in
Shanghai, China, where he presented the
Chinese premiere of the Berg Violin Concerto.
He has also appeared with the Orquesta Sinfonica in
Caracas,
Venezuela, as well as with
orchestras in Italy, Spain, Germany,
and Switzerland.
David Szent-Györgyi Pollitt was born in
Zimbabwe,
Africa, and trained as a violinist at Juilliard.
While on the staff of the Opera Company of
Boston, he was awarded the coveted Fulbright Grant to Italy where he studied and conducted
Italian opera in many of that country’s great opera houses.
He has been a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, and the Music
Director of the Arlington Symphony, the Tallahassee Symphony, and the
Greenville Symphony.
In
addition to his career in music Maestro Pollitt is a graduate of the
Maine Photographic Workshops and the coveted Chapman School of
Seamanship, and is a licensed Captain by the United States Coast Guard. |
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