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Events with high posterior probability

Zsolt Hamar	In 1997 he was invited by musical director Zoltan Kocsis to become first permanent conductor of the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Vladimir Ashkenazy	He succeeded Gianluigi Gelmetti as the chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in January 2009.
Nikolaus Harnoncourt	In October 2000, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra named him their Honorair gastdirigent (Honorary Guest Conductor).
Cornelius Meister	In September 2005, he became Generalmusikdirektor of Heidelberg, then the youngest general music director of Germany.
David Robertson (conductor)	In December 1999, Musical America named David Robertson Conductor of the Year.
Zara Dolukhanova	She continued to perform with minor opera houses in Armenia until she and her husband relocated to Moscow in 1944, when she was appointed as a soloist with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Radio.
Jacques Singer	Singer had signed on with Corpus Christi for an additional three years when he was hired as the permanent conductor and music director of the Oregon Symphony in April 1962.
Sasha Anawalt	Her maternal grandfather, Hobart Ames Spalding, was instrumental in the formation of the Opera Society of Washington and the Washington Opera beginning in 1957 and worked with Igor Stravinsky, Gian Carlo Menotti and Alberto Ginastera.
Paul Goodwin	He has been appointed the Music Director and Conductor of the Carmel Bach Festival, from the 2011 season.
Anton Arensky	Arensky retired from this position in 1901, spending his remaining time as a pianist, conductor, and composer.
Andr?s Ligeti	In 2001 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the WASO and returned to Belfast for concerts with the Ulster Orchestra.
Giuseppe Sturani	He remained at the Met until 1915 when he left to join the conducting staff at the Chicago Opera Association (COA) at the invitation of Campanini.
David Robertson (conductor)	In February 2005, Robertson was named the principal guest conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) and he assumed that post later in the year, in parallel with the beginning of his St. Louis tenure.
Walter Weller	In 1977 he relocated to Great Britain to become principal conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
Charles Groves	In 1938, he was appointed chorus master of the BBC Music Productions Unit under the direction of Stanford Robinson, where he worked on broadcast opera productions.
Omer Meir Wellber	He is not only the standing guest conductor at the Israeli Opera, but has also been, since 2009, the regular conductor of the symphonette.
Lawrence Foster	In 1990, Foster was appointed Music Director of the Aspen Music Festival and School.
Saulius Sondeckis	He served as its artistic director and principal conductor until 2004.
Jaap van Zweden	In 2005, he became chief conductor and artistic leader of the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (RFO ; Netherlands Radio Philharmonic) in Hilversum.
Thierry Fischer	Outside of Europe, Fischer became chief conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra in April 2008.
Louis Krasner	In 1976 he joined the faculties of the New England Conservatory of Music and the Berkshire Music Center.
Albert Dupuis	Appointed conductor of the Theater of Ghent in 1905, he withdrew when the season was completed, to devote himself to composition.
Anatole Fistoulari	In 1943, he was appointed principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Irvin Mayfield	In December 2002 Mayfield founded the sixteen-piece New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, of which he still serves as artistic director, a jazz ensemble listed as a 501 (c) (3) dedicated to education in the performing arts.
Zhang Jiqing	Invited by Pai Hsien-yung, Zhang Jiqing became the art director of the Peony Pavilion of the youth version in 2003.
Benjamin Shwartz	In 2004, Shwartz was named conducting fellow of the New World Symphony and, at the age of 25, was appointed by Michael Tilson Thomas to the post of Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and, concurrently, Assistant Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony.
Charles MacKay	However, in 1984, MacKay became executive director of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL), recruited to the post by OTSL's first general director Richard Gaddes.
Victor Herbert	During the Summer of 1888, Herbert became Seidl's assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic's ten-week summer concert seasons on the Boardwalk at Brighton Beach, a prestigious post.
Tim Kliphuis	com Grappelli Camp NL and since 2012, he is a professor of Jazz violin at the Conservatoire of Tilburg in The Netherlands.
Dobrin Petkov	In 1962, he was invited to become Chief Conductor of the Sofia National Opera.
Heinz Karl Gruber	In September 2009 Gruber was appointed composer/conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in succession to James MacMillan.
George Crum (musician)	Crum was the company's first chorus master, and stayed with the company as coach and assistant conductor for 3 years until 1951.
Richard Strauss	Bülow was very fond of the young man and decided that Strauss should be his successor as conductor of the Meiningen orchestra when Bülow resigned in 1885.
Stephen Leek	In 2005 Leek was Composer in Residence at the Marktoberdorf Musik Akademy in Bavaria, Germany, and guest conductor with the acclaimed Formosa Choir in concerts in Taiwan.
Edo de Waart	He resigned from the post in 2004 and now he is the orchestra's conductor laureate.
James Sample	Beginning in 1942, he served as an assistant to Canadian conductor Wilfrid Pelletier at the Metropolitan Opera.
Leyla Gencer	She was still active as of 2007, and had recently been appointed by La Scala's music director Riccardo Muti to run its school for young artists.
Louise Farrenc	In the 1830s Farrenc gained considerable fame as a performer and her reputation was such that in 1842 she was appointed to the permanent position of Professor of Piano at the Paris Conservatory, a position she held for thirty years and one which was among the most prestigious in Europe.
Julius Otto Grimm	Five years later, in 1860 he accepted the post of conductor of the Musikverein (Music Association) of Münster.
Tom Kitt (musician)	Kitt has also been a music director and conductor on Broadway since 2002, beginning with the musical Debbie Does Dallas : The Musical.
William Henry Reed	In 1933 he became conductor of the Strolling Players.
Claude R. Lakey	In 1949, at the request of Gene Hall, the jazz program's founding director, Lakey, as student conductor, became the first conductor of the Laboratory Dance Band, the original name of the One O'Clock Lab Band.
Landon Ronald	Neither this employment nor his engagement from 1898 as conductor of the Winter Gardens concerts in Blackpool helped his professional advancement in the snobbish atmosphere of fin de siècle England.
Marc Clear	In 1990, Clear's first soloist position took him to the small city theater, now known as the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, of Heidelberg, Germany.
Jos? Serebrier	He has had very many conducting posts, including principal guest conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra 1982 -- 83.
Jascha Silberstein	He was principal cellist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for thirty years from 1966 until his retirement.
Vernon Handley	In 1983 he was appointed associate conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Paul Hillier	Since 2003, Hillier has been Chief Conductor of Ars Nova (Copenhagen).
Oscar Bystr?m (composer)	He became a professor at the Academy in 1872, and also worked for several years as conductor of the orchestral society of Turku.
Donald Nally	At the end of 2002, Nally left Philadelphia and moved to Wales to become the chorus master at Welsh National Opera.
Jos? Pablo Moncayo	Chávez, as general director of the Fine Arts Institute, appointed Moncayo as music director/conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra (Mexico) on 1 January 1949.
Richard Simonton	As a tremendous fan of theatre organ music, Simonton arranged a gathering at his home on February 8, 1955, where he and several other organ enthusiasts founded an association called the American Theatre Organ Enthusiasts, later shortened to the American Theatre Organ Society, which is still highly active today.
Christof Perick	Since 2006, Perick has been Music Director at the Bayerisches Staatstheater Nuremberg, including the post of principal conductor of the Nürnberg Philharmonic.
Ignatz Waghalter	Traveling to the United States, he succeeded Joseph Stransky as musical director of the New York State Symphony, a post that he held during the 1925 season.
Michael Tippett	At home in 1969, Tippett worked with the conductor Colin Davis to rescue the Bath International Music Festival from a financial crisis, and became the festival's artistic director for the following five seasons.
Herbert Grossman	In 1949 Grossman joined the conducting staff of the newly formed NBC Opera Theatre (NBCOT).
Landon Ronald	From 1910 until shortly before his death, Ronald was principal of the Guildhall School of Music in London.
Anu Tali	In June 2013, the Sarasota Orchestra named Tali as its next music director, effective August 1, 2013, with an initial contract of 3 years.
Edo de Waart	In 2004, de Waart became artistic director and chief conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
Adrian Boult	His first prominent post was conductor of the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1924.
Felix Lederer	He then moved to the National Theatre Mannheim, where he was the general music director of the opera until 1922.
John Barbirolli	The outcome of this was an invitation to him to become Music Director and Permanent Conductor for three years starting with the 1937 -- 38 season.
Julius Eastman	In 1970, Eastman joined the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts at SUNY Buffalo, where he met the Czech - born composer, conductor, and flutist Petr Kotik.
John Massaro	In 1998, Massaro became the Chorus Master and Assistant Conductor for Arizona Opera.
Joseph Post	In addition, Post also conducted seasons with the New South Wales National Opera in Sydney, and joint seasons of the combined opera companies in 1952.
Nikolai Malko	In 1909 he became a conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre and, six years later, the head conductor there.
Vasily Petrenko	He has served as chief conductor of the State Academy of St. Petersburg since 1994.
Mei-Ann Chen	In April 2009 Chen withdrew her candidacy for music director of the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra.
Bruno Walter	In 1897, Walter became Chief Conductor at the municipal opera in Pressburg.
Kenneth Fuchs	The Adrian Symphony Orchestra in Michigan appointed Fuchs as composer in residence for the 2009 -- 10 seasons.
Richard Gill (conductor)	In August 2005 Gill was appointed Music Director of the new, Melbourne-based Victorian Opera.
Gaston Borch	He spent some time in Europe in 1906 as conductor of the Lausanne Symphony Orchestra.
Alberto Zelman	He was connected with the Melbourne Philharmonic Society for over 30 years, first as leader of the second violins in the orchestra, and from 1912 as conductor.
Donald Runnicles	Later the same month, the Deutsche Oper Berlin announced the appointment of Runnicles as their next Generalmusikdirektor, effective August 2009, for an initial contract of 5 years.
Denis Wright (composer)	He left the BBC in 1955, aged 60, and although officially retired, worked frequently with the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain, which had been formed on his suggestion.
Carlo Pedrotti	In 1868, Pedrotti moved to Turin, where he had been appointed director of the Liceo Musicale and conductor and director of the Teatro Regio.
Peter Donohoe (pianist)	In 2000 he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Bath Philharmonia.
Darius Milhaud	He secured a teaching post at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he composed the opera Bolivar (1943) and collaborated with Henri Temianka and the Paganini Quartet.
Alexander Gibson (conductor)	In 1987, Gibson was appointed conductor laureate of Scottish Opera and held this title for the remainder of his life.
Charles Groves	He also served as president of the National Youth Orchestra from 1977, and, during the last decade of his life, as guest conductor for orchestras around the world.
Malcolm Sargent	Royal Albert Hall Elizabeth Courtauld, wife of the industrialist Samuel Courtauld, promoted a popular series of subscription concerts beginning in 1929 and on Schnabel's advice engaged Sargent as chief conductor, with guest conductors as eminent as Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer and Stravinsky.
Sylvain Cambreling	He became principal conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in April 2010, with an initial contract of 3 years.
Ekow Eshun	Until November 2010 he was the artistic director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, leaving before the end of his six month notice period.
Felix Lederer	Lederer held the post until 1899 when, during the fall, he took the post of second conductor at the Städtischen Bühnen Nürnberg (today the Staatstheater Nürnberg).
Fredell Lack	In 1947, Lack was selected to be the first concertmaster of the prestigious Little Orchestra Society of New York, a position she held for two seasons.
Dmitry Liss	Since 1995, Dmitry Liss has served as Artistic Director/Chief Conductor of the Ural Philharmonic Orchestra.
G?nter Wand	After World War II his position in Cologne was consolidated as he became Generalmusikdirektor in charge of both the opera and the Gürzenich Orchestra, which he conducted until 1974.
Mei-Ann Chen	She also returned to Portland in April 2012 to guest conduct the Oregon Symphony.
Ernest Ford	He became conductor of the Royal Amateur Orchestral Society in 1897.
Pinchas Zukerman	He has served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 2009.
Kim Sang-man	Because of this, in the next film he worked on, Bloody Tie in 2006, he held two positions : art director and composer / music director.
Andrew Wailes	Wailes was appointed Principal Conductor of Melbourne University Choral Society (MUCS) in 1992, and since that time has become its longest serving conductor in over 70 years.
L?on Barzin	In 1930 he was named principal conductor and musical director of the National Orchestral Association, America's leading proving ground for young professionals and a springboard for generations of young American instrumentalists.
Siegfried Strohbach	He has retired as a conductor of major theaters of Lower Saxony and as a professor of the Musikhochschule Hannover, but as of 2011 is still active as a composer.
Brett Mitchell	In September 2012, Mitchell began his tenure as Music Director of the Moores Opera Center at the Moores School of Music of the University of Houston.
Leonard De Paur	Shortly after the chorus disbanded in 1968, De Paur became the associate director of the Lincoln Center International Choral Festival.
Georg Solti	He became the orchestra's music director laureate on his retirement in 1991.
Jimmy Barnes	In late 2006, Barnes became patron of the Choir of Hard Knocks, a choral group formed by Jonathon Welch and consisting of homeless and disadvantaged people in Melbourne.
Alan Gilbert (conductor)	During 1995 -- 97, Gilbert was an assistant conductor with the Cleveland Orchestra.
Francesco La Vecchia	In 1982 he began his career as conductor, and was named Permanent Conductor of the Symphonic Institution of Rome.