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Venezuelan conductor and violinist (born 1981)

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Dudamel and the second or maternal family name is Ramírez.

Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez (born 26 January 1981) is a Venezuelanconductor.

He is currently the music director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

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He is scheduled to become the Music and Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic in 2026.^[3]

Early life

Dudamel was born in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, the son of a trombonist and a voice teacher.^[4] He studied music from an early age. In 1986 he became involved with El Sistema, the famous Venezuelan social action music programme, initially learning the violin.^[5] He soon began to study composition.

He attended the Jacinto Lara Conservatory, where José Luis Jiménez was among his violin teachers. He then went on to work with José Francisco del Castillo at the Latin-Am