Moshe Atzmon

Moshe Atzmon was born in 1931 in Budapest

Moshe Atzmon was born Móse Grószberger in Budapest on 30 July 1931. At 13 he moved with his family to Tel Aviv.

He began his musical career as a horn player in the IDF orchestra and later played in symphony orchestras in Israel. He studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and at the music academy in Tel Aviv. In 1961 he went to London to study conducting with Antal Doráti and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

After his studies he led the Tel Aviv city orchestra and was a guest conductor with the Israeli Opera orchestra and the Kol Israel orchestra. Back from London, he guest conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Haifa Symphony Orchestra. In 1964 he co-conducted a Gadna orchestra tour of the United States and Canada, and in 1966 he was invited to the Salzburg Festival.

He was chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from 1967 to 1971 and of the Basel Symphony Orchestra. He was principal guest conductor of the Korean Broadcasting System orchestra from 1990 to 1992. He also served as chief conductor of orchestras in Tokyo, Nagoya, Rennes and Dortmund.