Gustavo Dudamel is a Venezuelan Conductor born on January 26, 1981. Gustavo Dudamel has won the Gustav Mahler Conducting Prize, 2004 and the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize, July 23, 2009. Gustavo has recorded eleven albums since 2005, all on the Deutsche Grammophon label.

Gustavo Dudamel trained as a Violinist studying both the Jacinto Lara Conservatory and the Latin American Violin Academy. Dudamel began conductor training in 1995 and some examples of orchestras he has conducted are:

1. Simon Bolivar Orchestra
2. Philharmonia,
3. Israel Philharmonic,
4. Los Angeles Philharmonic,
5. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
6. San Francisco Symphony

Gustavo Dudamel has recorded exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon since 2005 and has recorded eleven albums to date, a number of these albums have been recorded with the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.

• 2006 Beethoven, Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7http://www.gustavodudamel.com/node/295

• 2007 Birthday Concert for Pope Benedict XVIhttp://www.gustavodudamel.com/node/303

• 2007 Mahler, Symphony No. 5http://www.gustavodudamel.com/node/294

• 2007 Bartok, Concerto for Orchestrahttp://www.gustavodudamel.com/node/296

• 2008 The Promise of Musichttp://www.gustavodudamel.com/node/302

• 2008 Fiestahttp://www.gustavodudamel.com/node/293

• 2008 Berlioz, Symphonie Fantastiquehttp://www.gustavodudamel.com/node/297

• 2009 Mahler, Symphony No. 1http://www.gustavodudamel.com/node/392

• 2009 Discoverieshttp://www.gustavodudamel.com/node/391

• 2009 Live from Salzburghttp://www.gustavodudamel.com/node/301

• 2009 Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5; Francesca da Riminihttp://www.gustavodudamel.com/node/292