1996
Music Director, San Francisco Symphony (since 1995)
Artistic Director, New World Symphony (since 1990)
Principal Guest Conductor, London Symphony Orchestra (since 1995)
Guest Engagement:
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Tours:
San Francisco Symphony – United States (Lincoln, Nebraska; St. Louis; Chicago; Ann Arbor; Toledo; Washington DC; Clearwater; West Palm Beach; Fort Lauderdale; Miami)
San Francisco Symphony – Europe (New York, London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Stuttgart)
Summer Festival:
Aspen Music Festival – Composer in Residence
Awards:
Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, France
Honorary Doctor of Music, University of Miami
Recordings for BMG:
Villa-Lobos: Alma Brasileira – Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 7, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9, Choros No. 10 Fleming; New World Symphony BBC Singers
Copland: The Modernist: Concerto for Piano & Orchestra; Orchestral Variations, Short Symphony, Symphonic Ode Ohlsson; San Francisco Symphony
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps; San Francisco Symphony
Stravinsky in America: Agon, Ode, Scenes de Ballet, Circus Polka, Concertino for 12 Instruments, Variations: Aldous Huxley in Memoriam, Scherzo a la Russe, Canon, Star-Spangled Banner, Greeting Prelude; London Symphony Orchestra
Mahler: Das Klagende Lied Shaguch, DeYoung, Moser, Leiferkus; San Francisco Symphony
Composition:
Street Song: Symphonic Brass Version, First performed Barbican, LSO Brass Revised Symphonic Brass Version first performed Aspen Music Festival August