Mendelssohn symphonies won the UK Music Retailers Association Award for Best Orchestral Recording, and his series of Shostakovich’s
Film Suites won the Deutsche Schallplatten Award for Best Orchestral Recording.
Soundstage magazine selected Serebrier’s recording of
Scheherazade with the LPO as the Best Audiophile Recording. He has recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Bournemouth Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Weimar, Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, SWR Symphony Baden Baden/Freiburg, Oslo Philharmonic, Bamberg Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony, Czech State Philharmonic Brno, Sydney and Melbourne Symphonies and many others. As a composer, Serebrier has won most important awards in the United States, including two Guggenheims (as the youngest in that Foundation’s history, at the age of nineteen), Rockefeller Foundation grants, commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Harvard Musical Association, the BMI Award, Koussevitzky Foundation Award, among others. Born in Uruguay of Russian and Polish parents, he has composed more than a hundred works. His
First Symphony had its première under Leopold Stokowski when Serebrier was 17. His music has been recorded by conductors such as John Eliot Gardiner. His
Third Symphony, ‘Symphonie Mystique’ (Naxos
8.559183), received a GRAMMY
® nomination for Best New Composition of 2004. His
Carmen Symphony CD, with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, won the Latin GRAMMY
® for Best Classical Album. The French music critic Michel Fauré has written a new biography of José Serebrier, and his first recording with the New York Philharmonic was recently released to great international acclaim. His new
Flute Concerto with Tango, premièred and recorded by the Australian Chamber Orchestra, receives its American première in October 2012 at Carnegie Hall in New York, with the American Composers Orchestra conducted by José Serebrier.
For more information, please visit www.joseserebrier.com.
Interview with José Serebrier on MusicWeb International, February 2007
José Serebrier column on International Record Review
See José Serebrier conducting JS Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor on YouTube
Ever Upwards, Ever Outwards: José Serebrier talks to Jeremy Siepmann
| Box Set Release |
Catalogue Number |
| Artist Profile Series - José Serebrier |
Naxos 8.505086 |
| Naxos Limited Edition 20th Anniversary Box Set |
Naxos 8.506013 |
| The Art of Sound - Serebrier Conducts Rorem |
Naxos 8.505229 |