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Jaap van Zweden
Jaap van Zweden (born 1960 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch conductor and violinist. A
child violin prodigy, he won the Oskar Back competition at the age of 15, then
went on to study at the Juilliard School in New York. At 19, he became the
youngest concertmaster in the history of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, a
position he held from 1979 to 1995. He turned to conducting in the late 1990s.
He was Principal Conductor of the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (1996-2000),
the Resident Orchestra of The Hague (2000-2005), the Netherlands Radio
Philharmonic Orchestra (2005-2012) and the Antw...
