We are hoping to get word from the maestro himself, but short of that we will cut and paste from the site Berlin Enescu Days where his bio is posted. Copyright of text and image remains with the author and will not be used for any commercial purposes
Neville Dove has concertized widely as solo pianist and chamber musician as well as conductor of opera and symphonic repertoire in Europe, the United States and his native South-Africa. He studied the piano with the legendary Rosina Lhévinne at the Juillard School in New York, and completed his studies with Guido Agosti in Rome. Aged twenty-five, Neville Dove turned to conducting, first at the Musikdramatiska Skolan in Stockholm and later for five years as Associate Conductor and Head of Music Staff at the Opera Company in Boston. In Germany he has conducted the opera companies of Augsburg, Bonn and the United Thatres of Krefeld and Mönchengladbach, where he served as General Music Director while also regularly conducting the Niederrheinischen Sinfoniker both in symphony concerts as well as the opera repertoire, including an acclaimed cycle of operas by Benjamin Britten.
From 2001-2005 he coached and assisted Zubin Mehta at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; during that time Neville Dobe also became assistant conductor to Fabio Luisi at the Salzburger Festspiele.
Since 2006 he is Studienleiter and assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin.
Neville Dove was Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Ernest Bloch Music Festival in Newport (USA). In South Africa he was Music Director and Conductor of the acclaimed, prize-winning television film of Bartók?s Bluebeard?s Castle for SABC-TV. Both as a pianist and as conductor he has recorded extensively for RAI Italy, Swedish Radio and Television, several radio companies in New York and Boston and the South African Broadcasting Corporation, as well as EMI and Dandy Records.
Neville Dove has been teaching at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, the University of Cape Town, the Technikon Opera School Pretoria, the UNESCO International Music-Theater in Breukelen (Netherlands), the New Israeli Opera Tel-Aviv and at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. He won awards and first prizes at the National Competition of the SABC, the International Piano Competition in Geneva, the Josef Lhévinne Memorial Award in New York and the Nedeburg Opera Award in South Africa.
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