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Gisèle Ben-Dor's performances are receiving an overwhelming critical reception. The Uruguayan-born conductor's rapidly advancing and active career has included numerous performances with major orchestras in the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Israel.

Currently Ms. Ben-Dor is the Music Director of the Santa Barbara Symphony and the Boston Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra where, having been chosen by the musicians themselves, she has also garnered the highest praise from both audiences and critics. Anthony Tommasini, writing for the Boston Globe remarked, "Ben-Dor is a tremendous musician...a handsome, vital, charismatic presence." Her talent was also recognized by Leonard Bernstein with whome she shared the stage at Tanglewood and at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. Winner of the Bartok Prize of the Hungarian Television, she toured several eastern European countries. Ms. Ben-Dor made her conducting debut with the Israel Philharmonic in Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring which was televised by the BBC/London.

See what the critics in the US are saying:

• The New York Times — James Oestereich
• Los Angeles Times — Mark Swed
• The Washington Post — Tim Page
• The Philadelphia Inquirer — Daniel Webster
• Boston Globe — Anthony Tommasini
• Boston Globe — Anthony Tommasini
• Boston Globe — Ellen Pfeifer
• Boston Herald — Susan Larson
• Boston Herald — T. J. Medrek
• Boston Herald — Ellen Pfeifer
• Baltimore Sun — Phil Greenfield
• San Francisco Chronicle — Octavio Roca
• Los Angeles Times — Revueltas Festival
• CD Classical Review, Revueltas
• Gramophone, Ginastera
• The Berkshire Eagle, Andrew L. Pincus
• The Westsider, New York City
• The Cincinnati Enquirer
• The Cincinnati Post

International Reviews:

• Praise for the European premiere of Beatrix Cenci
• Jerusalem Post — Eli Karev
• Jerusalem Post — Benjamin Bar-Am
• Belfast News — Claran McKeown
• Helsinki Philharmonic
• Helsinki Philharmonic — February, 2000
• The Courier Mail, Brisbane, Australia — Claran McKeown
• Potsdamer Tageszeitung, Germany
• Excerpts from the Israeli Press
• More Excerpts from the Israeli Press
• Excerpts from the Dutch Press

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