Sir Simon Rattle OM CBE
(1955-present)
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, musical director, Music Director of the CBSO (1980-1998), Knight Bachelor (from 1995), and Order of Merit recipient (from 2014)
Aged 69
Wikidata WikipediaSir Simon Denis Rattle OM CBE (born 19 January 1955) is a British-German conductor. He rose to international prominence during the 1980s and 1990s, while music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (1980–1998). Rattle was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic from 2002 to 2018. He has been the music director of the London Symphony Orchestra since September 2017. Among the world's leading conductors, in a 2015 Bachtrack poll, he was ranked by music critics as one of the world's best living conductors. Rattle is also the patron of Birmingham Schools' Symphony Orchestra, arranged during his tenure with CBSO in mid 1990s. The Youth Orchestra is now under the auspices of charitable business Services for Education. He received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2001 at the Classic Brit Awards.
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Commemorated on 1 plaque
CBSO Centre was inaugurated on 4 July 1997 by Sir Simon Rattle CBE Music Director City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Choir 1980-98
CBSO Centre, Holliday Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom where they inaugurated (1997)