Editing Los Angeles Philharmonic (section)

==Conductors==

===Music Directors===
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* [[Walter Henry Rothwell]] (1919–1927)
* [[Georg Schnéevoigt]] (1927–1929)
* [[Artur Rodziński]] (1929–1933)
* [[Otto Klemperer]] (1933–1939)
* [[Alfred Wallenstein]] (1943–1956)
* [[Eduard van Beinum]] (1956–1959)
* [[Zubin Mehta]] (1962–1978)
* [[Carlo Maria Giulini]] (1978–1984)
* [[André Previn]] (1985–1989)
* [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]] (1992–2009)
* [[Gustavo Dudamel]] (2009–present)
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[[Georg Solti]] accepted the post in 1960, but resigned in 1961 without officially beginning his tenure.

===Conductor Laureate===
* [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]] (2009–present)

===Conductor Emeritus===
* [[Zubin Mehta]] (2019–present)

===Principal Guest Conductors===
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* [[Michael Tilson Thomas]] (1981–1985)
* [[Simon Rattle]] (1981–1994)
* [[Leonard Slatkin]] (Hollywood Bowl, 2005–2007)
* [[Bramwell Tovey]] (Hollywood Bowl, 2008–2010)
* [[Susanna Mälkki]] (2017–2022)
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Rattle and Tilson Thomas were named Principal Guest Conductor concurrently under [[Carlo Maria Giulini]], though Tilson Thomas's tenure ended much earlier. Until 2016, they were the only two conductors to officially hold the title as such (though as stated above, [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]] was initially offered the position under Previn before having the offer withdrawn).

Beginning in the summer of 2005, the Philharmonic created the new position of ''Principal Guest Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl''. [[Leonard Slatkin]] was initially given a two-year contract, and in 2007 he was given a one-year extension. In March 2008, [[Bramwell Tovey]] was named to the post for an initial two-year contract beginning Summer of 2008; he subsequently received a one-year extension. After Tovey's term ended, no conductor has since held the position at the Hollywood Bowl.<ref>{{cite press release| url=http://www.laphil.com/press/press_detail.cfm?id=2004| publisher=Los Angeles Philharmonic Association| title=Conductor Leonard Slatkin Opens Los Angeles Philharmonic's 2007 Season at Hollywood Bowl with Fireworks| date=July 10, 2007| access-date=July 10, 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927205653/http://www.laphil.com/press/press_detail.cfm?id=2004| archive-date=September 27, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| first=Chris| last=Pasles| title=New conductors at Bowl Unveiled| work=Los Angeles Times| url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-18-et-bowl18-story.html| date=March 18, 2000| access-date=June 22, 2008| archive-date=October 7, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007005025/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-mar-18-et-bowl18-story.html| url-status=live}}</ref>

In April 2016, the LA Phil announced [[Susanna Mälkki]] as the orchestra's next principal guest conductor, becoming first woman to hold the post. Her tenure began with the 2017–2018 season under an initial contract of three years.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/arts/music/susanna-malkki-named-principal-guest-conductor-of-los-angeles-philharmonic.html | title=Susanna Malkki Named Principal Guest Conductor of Los Angeles Philharmonic | work=The New York Times | author=Michael Cooper | date=April 6, 2016 | accessdate=May 6, 2024 | archive-date=May 9, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240509014956/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/arts/music/susanna-malkki-named-principal-guest-conductor-of-los-angeles-philharmonic.html | url-status=live }}</ref>  She held the post through the 2021–2022 season.

===Other notable conductors===
Other conductors with whom the orchestra has had close ties include Sir [[John Barbirolli]], [[Bruno Walter]], [[Leopold Stokowski]], [[Albert Coates (musician)|Albert Coates]], [[Fritz Reiner]], and [[Erich Leinsdorf]];<ref>{{cite journal| first=Donald| last=Muggeridge| url=http://www.idrs.org/publications/TWOboist/TWO.V5.2/LA.html| title=A History of the Los Angeles Philharmonic| journal=To the World's Oboists| publisher=The International Double Reed Society| volume=5| issue=2| year=1977| access-date=June 18, 2008| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205041637/http://www.idrs.org/publications/TWOboist/TWO.V5.2/LA.html| archive-date=December 5, 2008}}</ref> more recently, others have included [[Kurt Sanderling]], [[Pierre Boulez]], [[Leonard Bernstein]], [[Charles Dutoit]], [[Christoph Eschenbach]], and [[Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos]].

Many composers have conducted the Philharmonic in concerts and/or world premieres of their works, including [[Igor Stravinsky]], [[William Kraft]], [[John Harbison]], [[Witold Lutosławski]], [[Aaron Copland]], [[Pierre Boulez]], [[Steven Stucky]], [[John Williams]], [[Jerry Goldsmith]], [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]], [[Thomas Adès]], and [[Esa-Pekka Salonen]].

A number of the Philharmonic's Assistant/Associate Conductors have gone on to have notable careers in their own rights. These include [[Lawrence Foster]], [[Calvin E. Simmons]], and [[William Kraft]] under Mehta, [[Sidney Harth]] and [[Myung-whun Chung]] under Giulini, [[Heiichiro Ohyama]] and [[David Alan Miller]] under Previn, and [[Grant Gershon]], [[Miguel Harth-Bedoya]], [[Kristjan Järvi]], and [[Alexander Mickelthwate]] under Salonen. [[Lionel Bringuier]] was originally named Assistant Conductor under Salonen before being promoted to Associate Conductor and, finally, Resident Conductor under Dudamel; since then, [[Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla]] has served as Assistant Conductor and Associate Conductor under Dudamel.