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| caption = Dutoit conducting in 1984
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| birth_name = Charles Édouard Dutoit
| birth_name = Charles Édouard Dutoit
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| birth_place = [[Lausanne]], Switzerland
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| occupation = [[Conducting|Conductor]], [[pedagogue]]
|birth_place = [[Lausanne]], Switzerland
| years_active = 1957–present
| genre = [[Classical music|Classical]]
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'''Charles Édouard Dutoit''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|GOQ}} is a Swiss [[conducting|conductor]]. He is the principal guest conductor for the [[Saint Petersburg Philharmonia]].<ref name="r704">{{cite web | title=Charles Dutoit Principal Guest Conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra | website=Санкт-Петербургская академическая филармония имени Д.Д. Шостаковича | date=21 October 2021 | url=https://www.philharmonia.spb.ru/en/persons/biography/60508/ | access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref>
'''Charles Édouard Dutoit''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|GOQ}} (born 7 October 1936) is a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[conducting|conductor]]. He is currently the principal guest conductor for the St-Petersburg Philharmonic and co-director of the [https://www.shsymphony.com/ MISA Festival in Shanghai]. In 2017, he became the 103rd recipient of the [http://www.philharmonicsociety.uk Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal Award]. Dutoit held previous positions with the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra|London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]], the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the [[NHK Symphony Orchestra|Tokyo NHK Symphony]] and the Orchestre National de France. As of 2017, conductor emeritus of the Verbier Music Festival Orchestra. He is an honorary member of the Ravel Foundation in France and the Stravinsky Foundation in Switzerland. In December 2017, following allegations of sexual harassment, the Boston and San Francisco Symphonies cancelled his engagements.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=AP Exclusive: Famed conductor accused of sexual misconduct|url=https://apnews.com/278275ccc09442d98a794487a78a67d4|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=AP}}</ref> In a statement, Dutoit denied the charges.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Famous conductor Charles Dutoit accused of sexual misconduct|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/21/us/charles-dutoit-sexual-misconduct-allegations/index.html|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=CNN}}</ref> No one has ever filed formal complaints. <ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=AP Exclusive: Famed conductor accused of sexual misconduct|url=https://apnews.com/article/278275ccc09442d98a794487a78a67d4|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=AP}}</ref>


In 2017, he became the 103rd recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal Award. Dutoit held previous positions with the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra|London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]], the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the [[NHK Symphony Orchestra|Tokyo NHK Symphony]] and the Orchestre National de France. As of 2017, he was conductor emeritus of the Verbier Music Festival Orchestra. He is an honorary member of the Ravel Foundation in France and the Stravinsky Foundation in Switzerland.
==Biography==
Dutoit was born in [[Lausanne]], [[Switzerland]]. He studied there, and graduated from the [[Conservatoire de musique de Genève]], where he won first prize in conducting. Then he went to the [[Accademia Chigiana]] in [[Siena]] at the invitation of [[Alceo Galliera]]. In his younger days, he frequently attended [[Ernest Ansermet]]'s rehearsals and had a personal acquaintance with him. He also worked with [[Herbert von Karajan]] at [[Lucerne]] as a member of the festival youth orchestra and studied at [[Tanglewood]].


In December 2017, following allegations of sexual assault, the Boston and San Francisco Symphonies cancelled his engagements.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AP Exclusive: Famed conductor accused of sexual misconduct|url=https://apnews.com/278275ccc09442d98a794487a78a67d4|website=AP|date=22 December 2017}}</ref> In a statement, Dutoit denied the charges.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Famous conductor Charles Dutoit accused of sexual misconduct|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/12/21/us/charles-dutoit-sexual-misconduct-allegations/index.html|website=CNN|date=22 December 2017 }}</ref>
Dutoit began his professional music career in 1957 as a [[viola]] player with various orchestras across Europe and South America. In January 1959, he made his debut as a professional conductor with an orchestra of Radio Lausanne and [[Martha Argerich]]. From 1959 he was a guest conductor of the [[Orchestre de la Suisse Romande]] and the [[Lausanne Chamber Orchestra]]. After this, he was the conductor for Radio Zurich until 1967, when he took over the [[Berner Symphonie-Orchester|Bern Symphony Orchestra]] from [[Paul Kletzki]], where he stayed for 11 years.


==Biography==
While head of the Bern Symphony, he also conducted the [[National Symphony Orchestra (Mexico)|National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico]] from 1973 to 1975, and Sweden's [[Gothenburg Symphony]] from 1975 to 1978. Dutoit was principal guest conductor of the [[Minnesota Orchestra]] in the early 1980s.
Dutoit was born in [[Lausanne]], Switzerland. He studied there, and graduated from the [[Conservatoire de musique de Genève]], where he won first prize in conducting. Then he went to the [[Accademia Chigiana]] in [[Siena]] at the invitation of [[Alceo Galliera]]. In his younger days, he frequently attended [[Ernest Ansermet]]'s rehearsals and had a personal acquaintance with him. He also worked with [[Herbert von Karajan]] at [[Lucerne]] as a member of the festival youth orchestra and studied at [[Tanglewood]].<ref name="z315">{{cite web | title=Charles Dutoit | website=Warner Classics | url=https://www.warnerclassics.com/artist/charles-dutoit | access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref><ref name="c530">{{cite web | last=Chartock | first=Alan | last2=Donahue | first2=Joe | title=Charles Dutoit Conducts Kodaly For Tanglewood On Parade | website=WAMC | date=1 August 2017 | url=https://www.wamc.org/arts-culture/2017-08-01/charles-dutoit-conducts-kodaly-for-tanglewood-on-parade | access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref><ref name="h859" />


Dutoit began his professional music career in 1957 as a [[viola]] player with various orchestras across Europe and South America. In January 1959, he made his debut as a professional conductor with an orchestra of Radio Lausanne and [[Martha Argerich]]. From 1959 he was a guest conductor of the [[Orchestre de la Suisse Romande]] and the [[Lausanne Chamber Orchestra]]. After this, he was the conductor for Radio Zurich until 1967, when he took over the [[Berner Symphonie-Orchester|Bern Symphony Orchestra]] from [[Paul Kletzki]], where he stayed for 11 years.<ref name="l211">{{cite web | title=Charles Dutoit | website=Naxos | url=https://www.naxos.com/Bio/Person/Charles_Dutoit/30555 | access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref><ref name="h859" />
In 1977, Dutoit became the artistic director of the [[Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal]] (OSM). In the words of Glasgow-based music critic Kate Molleson: "A 20-year recording contract with [[Decca Records|Decca]] made the MSO the most recorded orchestra in the world, and the best of these recordings — Ravel's ''La Valse'' and ''Daphnis et Chloe'', Debussy's ''La Mer'', Stravinsky's French-period ballets — remain unsurpassed."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Molleson|first1=Kate|title=Revisiting: Montreal Symphony Orchestra & the Dutoit years|url=http://katemolleson.com/revisiting-montreal-symphony-orchestra-the-dutoit-years/|website=Kate Molleson|accessdate=5 April 2018}}</ref> Reaction to Dutoit joining the Montreal Symphony was positive. Peter G. Davis stated that Dutoit transformed the Montreal Symphony.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s8EBAAAAMBAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s8EBAAAAMBAJ/page/n52 53]|quote=Montreal Symphony the best french orchestra in the world.|title=New York Magazine|last=|first=|date=6 June 1983|publisher=New York Media, LLC|language=en}}</ref> New York Magazine wrote similarly about Dutoit, adding that he was noted for the championing of new Canadian music.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pentatonemusic.com/artists/charles-dutoit-conductor|title=Charles Dutoit|website=pentatonemusic|access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref> Throughout these years, he called without success for a new symphony concert hall for Montréal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/arts_et_spectacles/2011/09/07/001-osm-inauguration-nouvelle-salle.shtml|title=Premier concert de l'OSM dans sa nouvelle salle - L'inauguration de l'Adresse symphonique|language=fr|publisher=Radio-Canada|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref> Dutoit resigned from the Montreal Symphony in April 2002, with immediate effect, after the Quebec Musicians Guild complained about what it called Dutoit's "offensive behaviour and complete lack of respect for the musicians".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/12/25/dutoit-denies-sexual-allegations-as-montreal-symphony-opens-probe/ |title=Dutoit denies sexual allegations as Montreal Symphony opens probe | accessdate=2 January 2018| date=25 December 2017 | first=Terry |last=Haig | publisher=Radio Canada International}}</ref><ref name="Krauss">{{cite news|last1=Krauss|first1=Clifford|title=Dissonance In Montreal; Dealing With the Aftermath Of a Rare Orchestral Uprising|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/18/arts/dissonance-in-montreal-dealing-with-the-aftermath-of-a-rare-orchestral-uprising.html|accessdate=12 March 2017|work=The New York Times|publisher=New York Times Company|date=18 April 2002}}</ref><ref name="Chan">{{cite web|last1=Chan|first1=Wah Keung|title=The Dutoit Affair: Cause and Solution|url=http://www.scena.org/columns/reviews/020416-WKC-dutoit.html|website=La Scena Musicale|accessdate=23 June 2017}}</ref> In January 2018, the OSM acknowledged ignoring complaints from musicians of verbal and 'psychological harassment' by Dutoit dating back to the 1990s.<ref name="Le Devoir">{{cite web|last1=Bourgault-Cote|first1=Guillaume|title=Charles Dutoit, un homme et "son" orchestre|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/musique/518636/dutoit-quand-l-osm-niait-le-harcelement-psychologique|website=Le Devoir|accessdate=5 April 2018}}</ref> He did not return to the OSM as a guest conductor until 2016, in a concert at the new ''[[Montreal Symphony House|Maison Symphonique de Montréal]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/music/charles-dutoits-osm-comeback-a-joyous-affair | title=Charles Dutoit's OSM comeback a joyous affair | work=Montreal Gazette | author=Arthur Kaptainis | date=19 February 2016 | accessdate=12 July 2017}}</ref>


While head of the Bern Symphony, he also conducted the [[National Symphony Orchestra (Mexico)|National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico]] from 1973 to 1975, and Sweden's [[Gothenburg Symphony]] from 1975 to 1978. Dutoit was principal guest conductor of the [[Minnesota Orchestra]] in the early 1980s.<ref name="h859">{{cite web | title=Charles Dutoit | website=The Canadian Encyclopedia | date= | url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/charles-dutoit-emc | access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref>
Dutoit has received more than 40 international awards and distinctions, including two [[Grammy Awards]] (United States), several [[Juno Award]]s (Canada), the Grand Prix du Président de la République (France), the Prix mondial du disque de Montreux (Switzerland), the Amsterdam Edison Award, the Japan Record Academy Award, and the German Music Critics' Award. He and the OSM made many recordings for the Decca/London label.


In 1977, Dutoit became the artistic director of the [[Montreal Symphony Orchestra]] (OSM). In the words of Glasgow-based music critic Kate Molleson: "A 20-year recording contract with [[Decca Records|Decca]] made the MSO the most recorded orchestra in the world, and the best of these recordings — Ravel's ''La Valse'' and ''Daphnis et Chloe'', Debussy's ''La Mer'', Stravinsky's French-period ballets — remain unsurpassed."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Molleson |first1=Kate |title= Revisiting: Montreal Symphony Orchestra & the Dutoit years|url=http://katemolleson.com/revisiting-montreal-symphony-orchestra-the-dutoit-years/|website=Kate Molleson|date=6 December 2017 |access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref> Reaction to Dutoit joining the Montreal Symphony was positive. Peter G. Davis stated that Dutoit transformed the Montreal Symphony.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s8EBAAAAMBAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s8EBAAAAMBAJ/page/n52 53]|quote=Montreal Symphony the best french orchestra in the world.|title=New York Magazine|date=6 June 1983|publisher=New York Media, LLC|language=en}}</ref> New York Magazine wrote similarly about Dutoit, adding that he was noted for the championing of new Canadian music.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pentatonemusic.com/artists/charles-dutoit-conductor|title=Charles Dutoit|website=pentatonemusic|access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref> Throughout these years, he called without success for a new symphony concert hall for Montréal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/arts_et_spectacles/2011/09/07/001-osm-inauguration-nouvelle-salle.shtml|title=Premier concert de l'OSM dans sa nouvelle salle – L'inauguration de l'Adresse symphonique|date=7 September 2011 |language=fr|publisher=Radio-Canada|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref> Dutoit resigned from the Montreal Symphony in April 2002, with immediate effect, after the Quebec Musicians Guild complained about what it called Dutoit's "offensive behaviour and complete lack of respect for the musicians".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/12/25/dutoit-denies-sexual-allegations-as-montreal-symphony-opens-probe/ |title=Dutoit denies sexual allegations as Montreal Symphony opens probe | access-date=2 January 2018| date=25 December 2017 | first=Terry |last=Haig | publisher=Radio Canada International}}</ref><ref name="Krauss">{{cite news|last1=Krauss|first1=Clifford|title=Dissonance In Montreal; Dealing With the Aftermath Of a Rare Orchestral Uprising|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/18/arts/dissonance-in-montreal-dealing-with-the-aftermath-of-a-rare-orchestral-uprising.html|access-date=12 March 2017|work=The New York Times|date=18 April 2002}}</ref><ref name="Chan">{{cite web|last1=Chan|first1=Wah Keung|title=The Dutoit Affair: Cause and Solution|url=http://www.scena.org/columns/reviews/020416-WKC-dutoit.html|website=La Scena Musicale|access-date=23 June 2017}}</ref> In January 2018, the OSM acknowledged ignoring complaints from musicians of verbal and 'psychological harassment' by Dutoit dating back to the 1990s.<ref name="Le Devoir">{{cite web|last1=Bourgault-Cote| first1=Guillaume |title=Charles Dutoit, un homme et "son" orchestre|url=https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/musique/518636/dutoit-quand-l-osm-niait-le-harcelement-psychologique|website=Le Devoir|date=27 January 2018 |access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref> He did not return to the OSM as a guest conductor until 2016, in a concert at the new ''[[Montreal Symphony House|Maison Symphonique de Montréal]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/music/charles-dutoits-osm-comeback-a-joyous-affair | title=Charles Dutoit's OSM comeback a joyous affair | work=Montreal Gazette | author=Arthur Kaptainis | date=19 February 2016 | access-date=12 July 2017}}</ref>
Dutoit first conducted the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] in 1980. From 1990 to 1999, he was music director of the orchestra's summer concerts at the [[Mann Center for the Performing Arts]]. From 1990 to 2010, he was artistic director and principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra's summer festival in [[Saratoga Springs, New York]]. In 1991, he was made an Honorary Citizen of the city of [[Philadelphia]]. In February 2007, Dutoit was named the orchestra's chief conductor and artistic adviser, for a contract of four years, effective September 2008.<ref name="PhiladelphiaInquirer1">{{citation |last1=Dobrin|first1=Peter|date=3 March 2007|title=Positivity on the podium|periodical=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|page=D01|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Following the conclusion of his contract in Philadelphia in 2012, the orchestra named him its conductor laureate, as of the 2012–13 season.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/david_patrick_stearns/20160124_Q_A_with_Yannick_Nzet-Sguin__The_Phila__Orchestra_season__risks__and_tradition.html | title=Q&A with Yannick Nézet-Séguin: The Phila. Orchestra season, risks, and tradition | work=The Philadelphia Inquirer | author=David Patrick Stearns | date=24 January 2016 | accessdate=12 July 2017}}</ref>


Dutoit has received more than 40 international awards and distinctions, including two [[Grammy Awards]] (United States), several [[Juno Award]]s (Canada), the Grand Prix du Président de la République (France), the Prix mondial du disque de Montreux (Switzerland), the Amsterdam Edison Award, the Japan Record Academy Award, and the German Music Critics' Award. He and the OSM made many recordings for the Decca/London label.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
Since 1990, Dutoit has directed the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. From 1991 to 2001, Dutoit was Music Director of the [[Orchestre National de France]], with whom he made a number of recordings and toured extensively. In 1996, he was appointed principal conductor and in 1998 music director of Tokyo's [[NHK Symphony Orchestra]]. For the NHK television network, he made a series of documentary films for the young people called "Cities of Music" in Venice, St Petersburg, Tokyo, Buenos Aires (plus Rio de Janeiro and Manhaus), New York, Vienna, Budapest, Leipzig, Dresden, Paris and London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.warnerclassics.com/artist/charles-dutoit|title=Charles Dutoit &#124; Warner Classics|website=warnerclassics.com}}</ref> In 1997, he was made an honorary Officer of the [[Order of Canada]]. He is also one of a handful of non-Canadian citizens to be a Grand Officer of the [[Ordre national du Québec]].


Dutoit first conducted the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] in 1980. From 1990 to 1999, he was music director of the orchestra's summer concerts at the [[Mann Center for the Performing Arts]]. From 1990 to 2010, he was artistic director and principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra's summer festival in [[Saratoga Springs, New York]]. In 1991, he was made an Honorary Citizen of the city of [[Philadelphia]]. In February 2007, Dutoit was named the orchestra's chief conductor and artistic adviser, for a contract of four years, effective September 2008.<ref name="PhiladelphiaInquirer1">{{citation |last1=Dobrin|first1=Peter|date=3 March 2007| title=Positivity on the podium|periodical=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]|page=D01|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Following the conclusion of his contract in Philadelphia in 2012, the orchestra named him its conductor laureate, as of the 2012–13 season.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/david_patrick_stearns/20160124_Q_A_with_Yannick_Nzet-Sguin__The_Phila__Orchestra_season__risks__and_tradition.html | title=Q&A with Yannick Nézet-Séguin: The Phila. Orchestra season, risks, and tradition | work=The Philadelphia Inquirer | author=David Patrick Stearns | date=24 January 2016 | access-date=12 July 2017}}</ref>
In April 2007, Dutoit was named principal conductor and artistic director of the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]] as of 2009.<ref>Martin Cullingford, "Charles Dutoit takes over Royal Philharmonic Orchestra". ''Gramophone'', 20 April 2007.</ref> In October 2019 he was scheduled to stand down as the RPO's principal conductor and to take the title of Honorary Conductor for Life of the orchestra, but instead he resigned in January 2018.<ref>{{cite press release| url=http://www.rpo.co.uk/about/news-press/80-news/233-maestro-charles-dutoit-appointed-honorary-conductor-for-life| title=Maestro Charles Dutoit appointed Honorary Conductor for Life| publisher=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra| date=26 June 2017| accessdate=12 July 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925040950/http://www.rpo.co.uk/about/news-press/80-news/233-maestro-charles-dutoit-appointed-honorary-conductor-for-life| archive-date=25 September 2017| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/arts/music/charles-dutoit-sexual-assault-royal-philharmonic.html|title=Charles Dutoit, Conductor Accused of Sexual Assault, Leaves Royal Philharmonic|first=Michael|last=Cooper|date=11 January 2018|accessdate=11 January 2018|website=Nytimes.com}}</ref> Between 2009 and 2017, Dutoit also served as the music director of the [[Verbier Festival]] Orchestra in Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.verbierfestival.com/en/music-director-2/|title=Valery Gergiev Music Director, Verbier Festival Orchestra|website=Verbierfestival.com}}</ref> In April 2014, Dutoit received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Classical Music Awards. He was also made an honorary member of Fondation Igor Stravinsky in Geneva and Fondation Ravel in Monfort l'Amaury, France.
In September 2018, Dutoit was named principal guest conductor of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, effective May 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.philharmonia.spb.ru/en/|title=Cанкт-Петербургская Академическая Филармония имени А.А. Шостаковича|website=Philharmonia.spb.ru}}</ref>


Since 1990, Dutoit has directed the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. From 1991 to 2001, Dutoit was music director of the [[Orchestre National de France]], with whom he made a number of recordings and toured extensively. In 1996, he was appointed principal conductor and in 1998 music director of Tokyo's [[NHK Symphony Orchestra]]. For the NHK television network, he made a series of documentary films for the young people called "Cities of Music" in Venice, St Petersburg, Tokyo, Buenos Aires (plus Rio de Janeiro and Manhaus), New York, Vienna, Budapest, Leipzig, Dresden, Paris and London.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.warnerclassics.com/artist/charles-dutoit|title=Charles Dutoit &#124; Warner Classics|website=warnerclassics.com}}</ref> In 1997, he was made an honorary Officer of the [[Order of Canada]]. He is also one of a handful of non-Canadian citizens to be a Grand Officer of the [[Ordre national du Québec]].{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}
==Personal life==
Dutoit shuns publicity and protects his private life from the media. He has been married four times. His first marriage was to Ruth Cury, by whom he has a son, Ivan, who lives in [[Santa Monica, California]], with his family, who in turn has two children: Anne-Sophie and Jean-Sebastian. He was also married to the world-renowned Argentine concert pianist [[Martha Argerich]] (with whom he has a daughter, Anne-Catherine) and to the Canadian economist [[Marie-Josée Drouin]]. He is currently married to Canadian violinist [[Chantal Juillet]].<ref name="MontrealGazette">{{cite web|last1=Kaptainis |first1=Arthur |date=11 February 2010 |title=Charles Dutoit marries Montreal-born violinist Chantal Juillet |periodical=[[The Montreal Gazette]] |url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Dutoit+marries+Montreal+born+violinist/2550656/story.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100215055954/http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Dutoit%20marries%20Montreal%20born%20violinist/2550656/story.html |archivedate=15 February 2010 }}</ref>


In April 2007, Dutoit was named principal conductor and artistic director of the [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]] as of 2009.<ref>Martin Cullingford, "Charles Dutoit takes over Royal Philharmonic Orchestra". ''Gramophone'', 20 April 2007.</ref> In October 2019 he was scheduled to stand down as the RPO's principal conductor and to take the title of Honorary Conductor for Life of the orchestra, but instead he resigned in January 2018.<ref>{{cite press release| url=http://www.rpo.co.uk/about/news-press/80-news/233-maestro-charles-dutoit-appointed-honorary-conductor-for-life| title=Maestro Charles Dutoit appointed Honorary Conductor for Life| publisher=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra| date=26 June 2017| access-date=12 July 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925040950/http://www.rpo.co.uk/about/news-press/80-news/233-maestro-charles-dutoit-appointed-honorary-conductor-for-life| archive-date=25 September 2017| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/arts/music/charles-dutoit-sexual-assault-royal-philharmonic.html|title=Charles Dutoit, Conductor Accused of Sexual Assault, Leaves Royal Philharmonic|first=Michael|last=Cooper|date=11 January 2018|access-date=11 January 2018|website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>
==Allegations of sexual assault==
{{summarize section|date=September 2018}}
On 21 December 2017, Jocelyn Gecker of the [[Associated Press]] reported that four women had accused Dutoit of sexually assaulting them (subsequently six more women made similar accusations), with the alleged attacks having taken place between the late 1970s and 2010.<ref>{{cite news | agency= Associated Press | work = USA Today | accessdate = 21 December 2017 | date= 21 December 2017 | url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/12/21/famed-conductor-charles-dutoit-accused-sexual-misconduct/972882001/ | title= Famed conductor Charles Dutoit accused of sexual misconduct }}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>Jocelyn Gecker (11 January 2018). [https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2018/01/11/famed-conductor-faces-new-sex-claims-including-rape/I6e3hq3rDlqaCBdYXGCoAO/story.html "Famed conductor Dutoit faces new sex claims, including alleged rape,"<!-- Bot generated title -->] ''The Boston Globe''.</ref> The alleged incidents occurred in a variety of places (including a moving car, a hotel elevator, Dutoit's dressing room, and Dutoit's suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago), in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Tanglewood, Paris, Montreal, and Saratoga Springs, New York.<ref name=kaplan>{{cite news |url=https://kaplanherald.com/2017/12/24/philadelphia-orchestra-visitor-conductor-dutoit-denies-pressured-bodily-contact/ |title=Philadelphia Orchestra visitor conductor Dutoit denies 'pressured bodily contact' |work=Kaplan Herald |access-date=25 December 2017 |date=24 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225203208/https://kaplanherald.com/2017/12/24/philadelphia-orchestra-visitor-conductor-dutoit-denies-pressured-bodily-contact/ |archive-date=25 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1 /> They included claims that the conductor variously physically restrained the women, forced his body against theirs, put his tongue in their mouths, stuck one woman's hand down his pants, and an anonymous allegation of rape.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phillytrib.com/entertainment/music/philly-orchestra-latest-to-break-ties-with-dutoit-amid-scandal/article_887237a8-635f-5994-82c4-477cd273bb98.html|title=Philly Orchestra latest to break ties with Dutoit amid scandal|first1=Jocelyn |last1=Gecker |first2=Janie|last2=Har|work=Philadelphia Tribune| access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref>
One of these allegations has been contested by eyewitnesses.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/25/duto-j25.html|title=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra terminates employment of Charles Dutoit over allegations of sexual misconduct|first=Paul|last=Bond|website=wsws.org}}</ref>


Between 2009 and 2017, Dutoit also served as the music director of the [[Verbier Festival]] Orchestra in Switzerland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.verbierfestival.com/en/music-director-2/|title=Valery Gergiev Music Director, Verbier Festival Orchestra|website=Verbierfestival.com|access-date=18 April 2018|archive-date=18 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418232655/https://www.verbierfestival.com/en/music-director-2/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In April 2014, Dutoit received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Classical Music Awards. He was also made an honorary member of Fondation Igor Stravinsky in Geneva<ref name="e667">{{cite web | title=The Foundation | website=Fondation Igor Stravinsky | date=14 May 2021 | url=https://fondation-igor-stravinsky.org/en/foundation/ | access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref> and Fondation Ravel in Monfort l'Amaury, France.<ref name="c572">{{cite web | last=Roux | first=Marie-Aude | title=L'imbroglio de Ravel | website=Le Monde.fr | date=14 February 2017 | url=https://www.lemonde.fr/musiques/article/2017/02/14/l-imbroglio-de-ravel_5079581_1654986.html | language=fr | access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref>
Paula Rasmussen, a former mezzo-soprano reported that Dutoit pushed her against a wall and "shoved my hand down his pants and shoved his tongue down my throat" in his dressing room at the [[Los Angeles Opera]] in September 1991.<ref name="AP Exclusive: Famed conductor accused of sexual misconduct" />


In September 2018, Dutoit was named principal guest conductor of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, effective May 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.philharmonia.spb.ru/en/|title=Cанкт-Петербургская Академическая Филармония имени А.А. Шостаковича|website=Philharmonia.spb.ru}}</ref>
[[Sylvia McNair]], a two-time [[Grammy Award]]-winning soprano and now a retired faculty member at [[Indiana University]]'s [[Jacobs School of Music]], alleged that when she was 28 years old, Dutoit "pressed his knee way up between my legs and pressed himself all over me" and "tried to have his way" with her in the elevator of a hotel, after a rehearsal with the [[Minnesota Orchestra]] in 1985.<ref name="AP Exclusive: Famed conductor accused of sexual misconduct" /> Miss McNair appeared again with Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony at Carnegie Hall in 1988 as a last-minute replacement.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/local-arts/analysis-music-world-chose-to-ignore-allegations-of-charles-dutoits-misconduct |title=Analysis: Music world chose to ignore allegations of Charles Dutoit's misconduct |newspaper=[[Montreal Gazette]] |date=22 December 2017 |accessdate=30 April 2020}}</ref>
Two more women made similar charges the next day.
Pianist [[Jenny Q. Chai]] reported: "he ran his hands all over my body and tried to kiss me and stick his tongue in my mouth" after a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra, in front of the public, his former wife and daughter.<ref name="Beaumont-Thomas" /><ref name="Six more women">{{cite web |last1=Gecker |first1=Jocelyn |first2=Janie |last2=Har |title=Six more women accuse maestro Charles Dutoit, including one rape |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/01/11/six-more-women-accuse-maestro-charles-dutoit-including-one-rape/1025385001/ |website=USA Today}}</ref>


In late 2021, Dutoit withdrew from a scheduled subscription concert of the [[New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra]] due to his infection with [[COVID-19]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lebrecht |first1=Norman |title=Charles Dutoit: I have COVID |url=https://slippedisc.com/2021/11/charles-dutoit-i-have-covid/ |website=Slippedisc |date=22 November 2021 |access-date=16 March 2022}}</ref> He was subsequently booked by the Orchestra to conduct in Summer, 2023.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.njp.or.jp/en/news/5946/ | title=One-time ticket sales for the April ~ July 2023 Subscription Concert (2023/2024 season) &#124; &#91;Official&#93; New Japan Philharmonic—New Japan Philharmonic— }}</ref>
Another woman, a singer performing with the Philadelphia Orchestra, claimed Dutoit had assaulted her on four occasions when she was in her 30s; first in 2006 at the [[Saratoga Performing Arts Center]] in upstate New York and then in 2010 in [[Philadelphia]].<ref name=kaplan /><ref name="Beaumont-Thomas">{{cite news|last1=Beaumont-Thomas|first1=Ben|title=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Charles Dutoit accused of sexual assault|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/dec/22/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-conductor-charles-dutoit-accused-of-sexual-assault|accessdate=23 December 2017|work=The Guardian|agency=Guardian News and Media Limited|date=22 December 2017}}</ref>
The Philadelphia Orchestra Association released a statement saying: "We had no knowledge of these allegations."<ref name="philly.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/arts/charles-dutoit-sexual-misconduct-philadelphia-orchestra-20171221.html|title=Philadelphia Orchestra has played 650 concerts with Charles Dutoit, the conductor accused of sexual misconduct|first=Peter|last=Dobrin|website=Inquirer.com}}</ref>
Furthermore, Joseph H. Kluger, who was the orchestra's president during much of Dutoit's time in Philadelphia said that he was "not aware of any occasion in which anybody brought, certainly not to my attention or anyone else's at the Philadelphia Orchestra, any complaints about his behavior throughout the time I was there."<ref name="philly.com"/>
A fourth accuser, who was a 24-year-old musician with the [[Civic Orchestra of Chicago]] when Dutoit visited in 2006 to guest-conduct the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, alleged that Dutoit forced himself on her while she was having lunch with him in his hotel room.<ref name="AP Exclusive: Famed conductor accused of sexual misconduct">{{cite news |last1=Gecker |first1=Jocelyn |title=AP Exclusive: Famed conductor accused of sexual misconduct |url=https://www.apnews.com/278275ccc09442d98a794487a78a67d4 |website=AP NEWS |agency=Associated Press |accessdate=18 October 2018}}</ref>


==Personal life==
All four of these women said they felt comfortable speaking up after Metropolitan Opera conductor [[James Levine]] was suspended after allegations against him were made public.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42452715|title=Top conductor faces sex assault claims|date=22 December 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref>
Dutoit shuns publicity and protects his private life from the media. He has been married four times. His first marriage was to Ruth Cury, by whom he has a son, Ivan, who lives in [[Santa Monica, California]], with his family; his children are Anne-Sophie and Jean-Sebastian. Dutoit was also married to Argentine concert pianist [[Martha Argerich]] (with whom he has a daughter, Anne-Catherine) and to Canadian economist [[Marie-Josée Drouin]]. He is now married to Canadian violinist [[Chantal Juillet]].<ref name="MontrealGazette">{{cite web|last1=Kaptainis |first1=Arthur |date=11 February 2010 |title=Charles Dutoit marries Montreal-born violinist Chantal Juillet |periodical=[[The Montreal Gazette]] |url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Dutoit+marries+Montreal+born+violinist/2550656/story.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100215055954/http://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment/Dutoit%20marries%20Montreal%20born%20violinist/2550656/story.html |archive-date=15 February 2010 }}</ref>


==Allegations of sexual assault==
In January 2018 a fifth accuser, British theatre administrator Fiona Allan, came forward. The former intern said that Dutoit sexually assaulted her when he was a [[Boston Symphony Orchestra|Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)]] guest conductor at Tanglewood and she delivered a document to his dressing room, 20 years prior.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> She said he had maneuvered her up against a wall in his dressing room, and put his hand on her breast.<ref name="auto1">{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2018/01/02/woman-accuses-bso-guest-conductor-dutoit-sexual-assault-tanglewood/7ynE9o15d5Xw3xzfGIaD2I/story.html |title=Woman accuses BSO guest conductor Dutoit of sexual assault at Tanglewood |work= Boston Globe | accessdate=2 January 2018| date=3 January 2018 |first1=Malcolm |last1=Gay |first2=Rebecca |last2=Ostriker}}</ref> She said she was later warned not to see him alone: "They had a system in place. And the system was called: Don't go in there by yourself. Like, we've had complaints, therefore the way we get around that is that we send people in, in pairs. Not: We don't employ that person anymore."<ref name="auto"/> Although the Boston Symphony replied "it had received no complaints against Dutoit, a regular guest conductor since 1981, prior to Allan's,"<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://time.com/5100246/charles-dutoit-sexual-assault-rape-allegations/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116230401/http://time.com/5100246/charles-dutoit-sexual-assault-rape-allegations/ |archive-date=16 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> it revoked an honorary title it had given the conductor in 2016 at Tanglewood and severed all ties with him, stating: "The Boston Symphony Orchestra is committed to a zero tolerance policy towards anyone who exhibits inappropriate behavior in the workplace, and behavior that runs counter to these core values will always be met with serious consequences."<ref name="gay">{{cite news|last1=Gay|first1=Malcolm|title=BSO cuts ties with famed conductor Charles Dutoit|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/12/21/bso-cuts-ties-with-famed-conductor-charles-dutoit/1g6JM73xvGWtDaStfbc06M/story.html|accessdate=4 February 2018|work=Boston Globe|date=21 December 2017}}</ref> In March 2018, the BSO announced that its investigators had determined that Ms. Allan's allegations were "credible", and also that investigators had interviewed three other women who "credibly described incidents in the 1980s and 1990s in which they, too, were victims of sexual misconduct by Mr. Dutoit."<ref name="cooper">{{cite news|last1=Cooper|first1=Michael|title=Boston Symphony Finds Accusations Against Charles Dutoit 'Credible'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/arts/music/boston-symphony-finds-accusations-against-charles-dutoit-credible.html|accessdate=18 March 2018|work=Boston Globe|date=2 March 2018}}</ref>
In 2017 four women accused Dutoit of sexually assaulting them between the late 1970s and 2010.<ref>{{cite news | agency= Associated Press | work = USA Today | access-date = 21 December 2017 | date= 21 December 2017 | url = https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/12/21/famed-conductor-charles-dutoit-accused-sexual-misconduct/972882001/ | title= Famed conductor Charles Dutoit accused of sexual misconduct }}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1>Jocelyn Gecker (11 January 2018). [https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2018/01/11/famed-conductor-faces-new-sex-claims-including-rape/I6e3hq3rDlqaCBdYXGCoAO/story.html "Famed conductor Dutoit faces new sex claims, including alleged rape,"<!-- Bot generated title -->] ''The Boston Globe''.</ref> The alleged incidents occurred in a variety of places.<ref name=kaplan>{{cite news |url=https://kaplanherald.com/2017/12/24/philadelphia-orchestra-visitor-conductor-dutoit-denies-pressured-bodily-contact/ |title=Philadelphia Orchestra visitor conductor Dutoit denies 'pressured bodily contact' |work=Kaplan Herald |access-date=25 December 2017 |date=24 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225203208/https://kaplanherald.com/2017/12/24/philadelphia-orchestra-visitor-conductor-dutoit-denies-pressured-bodily-contact/ |archive-date=25 December 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phillytrib.com/entertainment/music/philly-orchestra-latest-to-break-ties-with-dutoit-amid-scandal/article_887237a8-635f-5994-82c4-477cd273bb98.html|title=Philly Orchestra latest to break ties with Dutoit amid scandal|first1=Jocelyn |last1=Gecker |first2=Janie|last2=Har|work=Philadelphia Tribune|date=23 December 2017 | access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref>
One allegation was contested by witnesses.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/25/duto-j25.html|title=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra terminates employment of Charles Dutoit over allegations of sexual misconduct|first=Paul|last=Bond|website=wsws.org|date=25 January 2018 }}</ref> The allegations were made by Paula Rasmussen, mezzo-soprano (1991, Los Angeles);<ref name="AP Exclusive: Famed conductor accused of sexual misconduct" /> [[Sylvia McNair]], soprano (1985, Minnesota);<ref name="AP Exclusive: Famed conductor accused of sexual misconduct" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/local-arts/analysis-music-world-chose-to-ignore-allegations-of-charles-dutoits-misconduct |title=Analysis: Music world chose to ignore allegations of Charles Dutoit's misconduct |newspaper=[[Montreal Gazette]] |date=22 December 2017 |access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref> and [[Jenny Q. Chai]], pianist.<ref name="Beaumont-Thomas" /><ref name="Six more women">{{cite web |last1=Gecker |first1=Jocelyn |first2=Janie |last2=Har |title=Six more women accuse maestro Charles Dutoit, including one rape |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/01/11/six-more-women-accuse-maestro-charles-dutoit-including-one-rape/1025385001/ |website=USA Today}}</ref> A singer with the Philadelphia Orchestra also claimed that Dutoit assaulted her in 2006 in [[upstate New York]] and again in 2010 in Philadelphia.<ref name=kaplan /><ref name="Beaumont-Thomas">{{cite news|last1=Beaumont-Thomas|first1=Ben|title=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Charles Dutoit accused of sexual assault|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/dec/22/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-conductor-charles-dutoit-accused-of-sexual-assault|access-date=23 December 2017|work=The Guardian|agency=Guardian News and Media Limited|date=22 December 2017}}</ref><ref name="philly.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/arts/charles-dutoit-sexual-misconduct-philadelphia-orchestra-20171221.html|title=Philadelphia Orchestra has played 650 concerts with Charles Dutoit, the conductor accused of sexual misconduct|first=Peter|last=Dobrin|website=Inquirer.com|date=21 December 2017 }}</ref> A 24-year-old musician with the [[Civic Orchestra of Chicago]] alleged that Dutoit forced himself on her in 2006.<ref name="AP Exclusive: Famed conductor accused of sexual misconduct">{{cite news |last1=Gecker |first1=Jocelyn |title=AP Exclusive: Famed conductor accused of sexual misconduct |url=https://www.apnews.com/278275ccc09442d98a794487a78a67d4 |website=AP NEWS |agency=Associated Press |access-date=18 October 2018}}</ref> In January 2018, Fiona Allan, a British theatre administrator, said that when she was an intern Dutoit sexually assaulted her at Tanglewood 20 years earlier.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name="auto1">{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2018/01/02/woman-accuses-bso-guest-conductor-dutoit-sexual-assault-tanglewood/7ynE9o15d5Xw3xzfGIaD2I/story.html |title=Woman accuses BSO guest conductor Dutoit of sexual assault at Tanglewood |work= Boston Globe | access-date=2 January 2018| date=3 January 2018 |first1=Malcolm |last1=Gay |first2=Rebecca |last2=Ostriker}}</ref><ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://time.com/5100246/charles-dutoit-sexual-assault-rape-allegations/ |title=Charles Dutoit Faces Six New Sex Claims, Including One Rape |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116230401/http://time.com/5100246/charles-dutoit-sexual-assault-rape-allegations/ |archive-date=16 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="gay">{{cite news|last1=Gay|first1=Malcolm|title=BSO cuts ties with famed conductor Charles Dutoit|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/12/21/bso-cuts-ties-with-famed-conductor-charles-dutoit/1g6JM73xvGWtDaStfbc06M/story.html|access-date=4 February 2018|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|date=21 December 2017}}</ref>


In March 2018, the Boston Symphony said that Allan's allegations were "credible" and that three other women "credibly described incidents in the 1980s and 1990s in which they, too, were victims of Dutoit's sexual misconduct."<ref name="cooper">{{cite news|last1=Cooper|first1=Michael|title=Boston Symphony Finds Accusations Against Charles Dutoit 'Credible'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/arts/music/boston-symphony-finds-accusations-against-charles-dutoit-credible.html|access-date=18 March 2018|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|date=2 March 2018}}</ref>
A sixth accuser, French soprano Anne-Sophie Schmidt, said that when she was 31 in March 1995 in Paris, Dutoit pushed her up against a wall, forcibly kissed her, and groped her breasts and between her legs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lalsace.fr/actualite/2018/01/03/affaire-dutoit-une-soprano-alsacienne-parle|title=Affaire Dutoit: une soprano alsacienne parle|website=Lalsace.fr|accessdate=11 January 2018}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1 />


Other women also claimed assault.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lalsace.fr/actualite/2018/01/03/affaire-dutoit-une-soprano-alsacienne-parle|title=Affaire Dutoit: une soprano alsacienne parle|website=Lalsace.fr|access-date=11 January 2018}}</ref><ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name="Archived copy">{{Cite web |url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1536285-canadian-musician-opens-up-about-her-allegations-against-charles-dutoit |title=Canadian musician opens up about her allegations against Charles Dutoit &#124; the Chronicle Herald |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071747/http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1536285-canadian-musician-opens-up-about-her-allegations-against-charles-dutoit |archive-date=24 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The number of women accusing Dutoit of sexual assault increased to 10 on 11 January 2018, as new women, several anonymous, came forward accusing him of attacks in the United States, Paris, and Montreal since the late 1970s.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> One new anonymous accuser was a 28-year-old female musician who had been auditioning for an orchestra in 1988, as Dutoit was guest-conducting.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> They were staying at the same hotel.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Dutoit called her, said that his luggage was broken, and asked if she had a certain tool sometimes used to fix musical instruments.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> When she brought it to his hotel room, he invited her in and offered her a drink, which she declined.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Within minutes: "He came closer to me and tried to kiss me, and held my head so strongly it ripped my earring out. He pinned my wrists to the wall and pushed me to the bed. His pants were down in a split second and he was inside me before I could blink."<ref name=autogenerated1 /> She cried, telling him to stop, and that she was married, but he continued.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> When she then cried out that she was not on birth control, he pushed her out the door, saying: "I'll get some condoms and I'll get you back."<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Two other musicians in the orchestra said that the woman confided in them after the encounter.<ref name=autogenerated1 />

Musician Mary Lou Basaraba was in her early 20s and working as a journalist in 1977-78 when the [[Montreal Symphony Orchestra]] asked her to interview Dutoit.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> She said she was told Dutoit had specifically requested that she be the interviewer, and that it be conducted at his apartment.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> "When he answered the door, he looked totally dishevelled….I thought, Hmm, this is not looking promising. But I went in…."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1536285-canadian-musician-opens-up-about-her-allegations-against-charles-dutoit |title=Archived copy |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071747/http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1536285-canadian-musician-opens-up-about-her-allegations-against-charles-dutoit |archive-date=24 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Within minutes of her arrival, she said, Dutoit forced himself on her, kissed her, and placed his hands on her breasts and crotch.[14]
After pushing him away, "she suggested they still do the interview, so they went to a nearby restaurant and then returned to the apartment."
<ref name="richmond-news.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.richmond-news.com/cmlink/gmg-glacier-media-group/canadian-musician-opens-up-about-her-allegations-against-charles-dutoit-1.23143621 |title=Archived copy |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071134/http://www.richmond-news.com/cmlink/gmg-glacier-media-group/canadian-musician-opens-up-about-her-allegations-against-charles-dutoit-1.23143621 |archive-date=24 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
A few days later, it was reported in the Journal de Montreal she had refused his invitation to the restaurant.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2018/01/15/elle-raconte-le-soir-ou-charles-dutoit-laurait-agressee|title=Elle raconte le soir où Charles Dutoit l'aurait agressée|website=Journaldemontreal.com}}</ref> Basaraba "said she felt compelled to tell her story of 1978 after reading the recent accusation of sexual assault against Dutoit made by mezzo-soprano Paula Rasmussen and getting in touch with her."<ref name="richmond-news.com"/> "I have universal empathy for all the women who came forward.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1536285-canadian-musician-opens-up-about-her-allegations-against-charles-dutoit |title=Archived copy |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180124071747/http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/1536285-canadian-musician-opens-up-about-her-allegations-against-charles-dutoit |archive-date=24 January 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lapresse.ca/arts/musique/musique-classique/201801/12/01-5149867-une-musicienne-se-confie-sur-les-allegations-contre-charles-dutoit.php|title=Une musicienne se confie sur les allégations contre Charles Dutoit|date=12 January 2018|website=La Presse}}</ref>

Canadian soprano Pauline Vaillancourt said that Dutoit tried to force himself on her in 1981, after inviting her to dinner "to discuss work" after her performance as a soloist with the Montreal Symphony.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> While driving her home, she said, he pulled his car into a dark spot, groped her breasts and legs, and asked her to come back to his room.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> She said she pushed him away.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Vaillancourt's brother, Jean-Eudes Vaillancourt, a pianist, conductor, and classical music professor at the [[University of Montreal]], said his sister told him of the incident the next day.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
In January 2018, following physical and sexual assault allegations, he resigned from his position as artistic director and principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.<ref name="auto"/>


===Reaction===
===Reaction===
In January 2018 Dutoit resigned from his position as artistic director and principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.<ref name="auto"/> Several other orchestras either cancelled engagements or severed ties with him, including the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]], the [[San Francisco Symphony]], the [[New York Philharmonic]], the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] (which also removed his title of conductor laureate), the [[Sydney Symphony Orchestra]], and the [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://infotel.ca/newsitem/montreal-orchestra-conductor-dutoit-denies-sexual-misconduct-allegations/it48871|title=Montreal orchestra conductor Dutoit denies sexual misconduct allegations|website=Infotel.ca|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wtop.com/australia/2017/12/dutoit-out-at-6-symphonies-amid-sexual-assault-accusations/|title=Dutoit out at 8 symphonies amid sexual assault accusations|date=22 December 2017|website=WTOP.com|access-date=25 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223160653/https://wtop.com/australia/2017/12/dutoit-out-at-6-symphonies-amid-sexual-assault-accusations/|archive-date=23 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/arts/music/charles-dutoit-sexual-misconduct.html |work = [[The New York Times]] | title= Charles Dutoit, Noted Conductor, Accused of Sexual Assault | access-date = 21 December 2017 | date= 21 December 2017 |first= Michael | last = Cooper}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | work= Boston Globe | access-date = 21 December 2017 | date= 21 December 2017 |url = https://www.boston.com/culture/music/2017/12/21/boston-symphony-orchestra-charles-dutoit | title= Boston Symphony Orchestra cuts ties with guest conductor after sexual misconduct allegations }}</ref>
Joe Kluger, who served as the orchestra's president for 16 years through 2005, said that rumors of what he called Dutoit's flirtatious "inappropriate behavior" were widespread, and that the leadership "made it clear to everyone who worked on staff with the Philadelphia Orchestra to be careful and bring to us any examples of any behavior that was inappropriate. No one did while I was there."<ref name="philly.com"/>


The same month, Canadian [[CBC Radio]]/[[CBC Radio Two]] adopted a policy of no longer crediting Dutoit as conductor when it played his recordings.<ref>[https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/music/arthur-kaptainis-charles-dutoit-exiled-from-cbc-but-osm-gets-a-reprieve Arthur Kaptainis: Charles Dutoit exiled from CBC, but OSM gets a reprieve | Montreal Gazette<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
The Royal Philharmonic initially announced in December 2017 that it and Dutoit agreed to cancel his pending engagements. The orchestra said "These accusations are taken very seriously by the orchestra and the RPO believes that the truth of the matter should be determined by the legal process. The immediate action taken by the RPO and Charles Dutoit allows time for a clear picture to be established. Charles Dutoit needs to be given a fair opportunity to seek legal advice and contest these accusations."<ref>{{cite news | agency= BBC News | access-date = 22 December 2017 | date= 22 December 2017 | url = https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42452715 | title= Charles Dutoit: Conductor relieved of duties after sex assault claims }}</ref> Several other orchestras either cancelled engagements or severed ties with Dutoit, including the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]], the [[San Francisco Symphony]], the [[New York Philharmonic]], the [[Philadelphia Orchestra]] (which also removed his title of conductor laureate), the [[Sydney Symphony Orchestra]], and the [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://infotel.ca/newsitem/montreal-orchestra-conductor-dutoit-denies-sexual-misconduct-allegations/it48871|title=Montreal orchestra conductor Dutoit denies sexual misconduct allegations|website=Infotel.ca|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wtop.com/australia/2017/12/dutoit-out-at-6-symphonies-amid-sexual-assault-accusations/|title=Dutoit out at 8 symphonies amid sexual assault accusations|date=22 December 2017|website=WTOP.com|access-date=25 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223160653/https://wtop.com/australia/2017/12/dutoit-out-at-6-symphonies-amid-sexual-assault-accusations/|archive-date=23 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/arts/music/charles-dutoit-sexual-misconduct.html |work = New York Times | title= Charles Dutoit, Noted Conductor, Accused of Sexual Assault | access-date = 21 December 2017 | date= 21 December 2017 |first= Michael | last = Cooper}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | work= Boston Globe | access-date = 21 December 2017 | date= 21 December 2017 |url = https://www.boston.com/culture/music/2017/12/21/boston-symphony-orchestra-charles-dutoit | title= Boston Symphony Orchestra cuts ties with guest conductor after sexual misconduct allegations }}</ref>

Dutoit said in a statement: "Whilst informal physical contact is commonplace in the arts world as a mutual gesture of friendship, the serious accusations made involving coercion and forced physical contact have absolutely no basis in truth."<ref name=bbcdenies>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42467406|title=Conductor denies coercion allegations|date=23 December 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref>

On 24 December 2017, the [[Montreal Symphony Orchestra]] announced that it had launched a sexual harassment investigation by an independent third party after receiving a complaint against Dutoit from a woman not named in earlier accounts.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/12/25/entertainment-news/montreal-orchestra-probes-sexual-harassment-allegations-famed-conductor-charles-dutoit/#.WkC1WTdG3x8|title=Montreal orchestra probes sexual harassment allegations against famed conductor Charles Dutoit |newspaper=[[The Japan Times]]|access-date=25 December 2017}}</ref> The Boston Symphony Orchestra also began an investigation.<ref name="auto1"/>

The Royal Philharmonic announced subsequently, on 10 January 2018, that Dutoit had left all roles with the orchestra with immediate effect.<ref name="auto2">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/10/royal-philharmonic-orchestra-conductor-quits-over-abuse-claims|title=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conductor quits over abuse claims|first1=Patrick|last1=Greenfield|date=10 January 2018|accessdate=11 January 2018|website=Theguardian.com}}</ref> It said: "Whilst Mr Dutoit continues to seek legal counsel to defend himself, the protracted uncertainty and media reporting makes Mr Dutoit's position with the orchestra untenable. The RPO is committed to the highest standards of ethical behaviour and takes very seriously its responsibility to maintain a safe working environment for all its artists, musicians and staff."<ref name="auto2"/> The ''New York Times'' discussed Dutoit (and also [[Daniele Gatti]]) as a conductor making a comeback in Europe despite credible charges of sexual misconduct.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/arts/music/daniele-gatti-charles-dutoit-metoo-orchestra-opera.html|title=Two Star Conductors Faced #MeToo Allegations. Now They're Back.|first=Alex|last=Marshall|date=28 December 2018|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>

In January 2018, Canadian [[CBC Radio]]/[[CBC Radio Two]] adopted a policy of no longer crediting Dutoit as conductor when they played recordings of music he had conducted; they did this rather than remove the recordings entirely from their broadcasts.<ref>[https://montrealgazette.com/entertainment/music/arthur-kaptainis-charles-dutoit-exiled-from-cbc-but-osm-gets-a-reprieve Arthur Kaptainis: Charles Dutoit exiled from CBC, but OSM gets a reprieve | Montreal Gazette<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> [[WRTI]]-FM (90.1), a local Philadelphia classical radio station, decided to not play his recordings, at least for now.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/entertainment/arts/the-sex-charges-against-frequent-philadelphia-orchestra-conductor-charles-dutoit-and-what-it-means-for-classical-music-20180111.html|title=The sex charges against frequent Philadelphia Orchestra conductor Charles Dutoit - and what they mean for classical music|first=Peter |last=Dobrin|website=Inquirer.com}}</ref>


==Orchestras with which Dutoit has recorded==
==Orchestras with which Dutoit has recorded==
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* London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) DGG – Philips – Decca
* London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) DGG – Philips – Decca
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* Orchestra de la Svizzera Italiana EMI
* Orchestra de la Svizzera Italiana EMI
* Norddeutsche Rundfunk Hamburg (NDR) NDR production
* Norddeutsche Rundfunk Hamburg (NDR) NDR production
* Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra – Sony<ref>Musique du Monde, Entretiens avec Jean Pierre Pastori, Paroles vives, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 2007. List of discography pages 163–190</ref>
* Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra - Sony
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==Honors==
==Honors==
{{ external media|float=center|width=250px|audio1= Charles Dutoit conducting the [[Philharmonia Orchestra]] performing works by [[Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky]] including: <br /> Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 with [[Pascal Devoyon]] <br /> Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 with [[Pierre Amoyal]] in 1991 <br /> [https://archive.org/details/cd_tchaikovsky-in-saint-petersburg_charles-dutoit-philharmonia-orchestra-pasc/disc1/01.+Pascal+Devoyon%3B+Charles+Dutoit+-+Philharmonia+Orchestra+-+Tchaikovsky+-+Piano+Concerto+%231+In+B+Flat+Minor%2C+Op.+23+-+1.+Allegro+Non+Troppo+E+Molto+Maestoso.flac '''Here on archive.org''']}}
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* 1982 – Musician of the Year, Canadian Music Council
* 1982 – Musician of the Year, Canadian Music Council
* 1982 – Great Montrealer
* 1982 – [[Great Montrealer]]
* 1984 – Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Montreal
* 1984 – Doctor [[Honoris Causa]], University of Montreal
* 1985 – Docteur en Musique, Laval University, Quebec
* 1985 – Docteur en Musique, Laval University, Quebec
* 1988 – Canadian Music Council Medal
* 1988 – Canadian Music Council Medal
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* 2007 – Médaille d'Or de la Ville de Lausanne
* 2007 – Médaille d'Or de la Ville de Lausanne
* 2009 – Artistic Advisor, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
* 2009 – Artistic Advisor, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
* 2010 – Co-Director of MISA Festival, Shanghai
* 2010 – Co-director of MISA Festival, Shanghai
* 2011 – Doctor of Music, Curtis Institute, Philadelphia
* 2012 – Guangzhou Opera House (China) – Honorary Artistic Advisor
* 2012 – Guangzhou Opera House (China) – Honorary Artistic Advisor
* 2012 – The Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia – Tribute
* 2012 – The Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia – Tribute
* 2014 – Lifetime Achievement Award – ICMA ([[International Classical Music Awards]]), Warsaw<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |date=2014 |title=International Classical Music Awards 2014 |url=https://www.icma-info.com/winners-2014/ |work=icma-info.com |location= |access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref>
* 2014 – Lifetime Achievement Award – ICMA ([[International Classical Music Awards]]), Warsaw<ref>{{cite web |date=2014 |title=International Classical Music Awards 2014 |url=https://www.icma-info.com/winners-2014/ |work=icma-info.com |access-date=25 October 2017}}</ref>
* 2015 – Honorary Member of the Igor Stravinsky Foundation, Geneva
* 2015 – Honorary Member of the Igor Stravinsky Foundation, Geneva
* 2016 – Honorary Committee Member of the Maurice Ravel Foundation, Paris
* 2016 – Honorary Committee Member of the Maurice Ravel Foundation, Paris
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* 2016 – Special Contribution Award,18th Shanghai International Arts Festival
* 2016 – Special Contribution Award,18th Shanghai International Arts Festival
* 2016 – Lauréat 2016, Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture, Lausanne
* 2016 – Lauréat 2016, Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture, Lausanne
* 2017 – [[Royal Philharmonic Society#The Gold Medal|Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal]]<ref>{{cite press release |author= |title=Conductor Charles Dutoit awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal |url=https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/awards/gold_medal/dutoit |location=London |publisher=Royal Philharmonic Society |agency= |date=15 August 2017 |access-date=26 November 2017}}</ref>
* 2017 – [[Royal Philharmonic Society#The Gold Medal|Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal]]<ref>{{cite press release |title=Conductor Charles Dutoit awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal |url=https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/awards/gold_medal/dutoit |location=London |publisher=Royal Philharmonic Society |date=15 August 2017 |access-date=26 November 2017 |archive-date=11 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911191321/https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/awards/gold_medal/dutoit |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2022 – Premio Una Vita Nella Musica from Teatro La Fenice, Venezia <ref>teatrolafenice.it</ref>
* 2024 – Asociacíon de Críticos Musicales de la Argentina, Mejor Director de Orquesta Extranjero, Temporada 2023,<ref>http://www.criticosmusicales.com {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref>


==Prizes==
==Prizes==
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* 2004 – New York Times Best Classical Discs of the year (Theodorakis "Zorba", OSM)
* 2004 – New York Times Best Classical Discs of the year (Theodorakis "Zorba", OSM)
* 2007 – Grammy nomination (Franck Symphonic Variations, Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos No 2 and No 5, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande OSR)
* 2007 – Grammy nomination (Franck Symphonic Variations, Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos No 2 and No 5, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande OSR)
* 2 Grammy Awards: 1995 and 2000.<ref name="b740">{{cite web | title=Charles Dutoit | website=GRAMMY.com | date=7 August 2024 | url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/charles-dutoit/16643 | access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref>
* 2 Grammy Awards: 1995 and 2000.
* 9 Grammy nominations: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1992, 1995, 1996, and 2007.
* 9 Grammy nominations: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1992, 1995, 1996, and 2007.<ref name="b740" />

== Discography ==
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
!Year
!Title
!Artist(s) (Dutoit as conductor)
!Label
|-
|1970
|[[Tchaikovsky]]: [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)|Piano Concerto No. 1]]
|[[Martha Argerich]], [[Royal Philharmonic Orchestra]]
|[[Deutsche Grammophon|DG]]
|-
|1971
|[[Arthur Honegger|Honegger]]: [[Le Roi David]]
|Various soloists
|[[Erato Records|Erato]]
|-
|1974
|[[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]: [[Pulcinella (ballet)|Pulcinella]] / [[Apollon Musagète]]
|[[English Chamber Orchestra]]
|Erato
|-
|1974
|[[Niccolò Paganini|Paganini]]: Violin Concerto No. 6
|[[Salvatore Accardo]], [[London Philharmonic Orchestra]]
|DG
|-
|1975
|Paganini: [[Violin Concerto No. 3 (Paganini)|Violin Concerto No. 3]] / Viola Sonata
|Salvatore Accardo, [[Dino Asciolla]], London Philharmonic Orchestra
|DG
|-
|1975
|Paganini: [[Violin Concerto No. 5 (Paganini)|Violin Concerto No. 5]]
|Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra
|DG
|-
|1976
|Paganini: [[Violin Concerto No. 1 (Paganini)|Violin Concerto No. 1]]
|Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra
|DG
|-
|1976
|[[Mendelssohn]]: Violin Concertos
|Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra
|[[Philips Records|Philips]]
|-
|1977
|Paganini: [[Violin Concerto No. 4 (Paganini)|Violin Concerto No. 4]]
|Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra
|DG
|-
|1977
|Paganini: [[Violin Concerto No. 2 (Paganini)|Violin Concerto No. 2 "La Campanella"]]
|Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra
|DG
|-
|1977
|Stravinsky: [[Petrushka (ballet)|Petrushka]]
|[[Tamás Vásáry]], [[London Symphony Orchestra]]
|DG
|-
|1977
|French Flute Concertos
|[[James Galway]], Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
|[[RCA Records|RCA]]
|-
|1977
|[[Wilhelm Stenhammar|Stenhammar]]: Piano Concerto No. 1
|Irene Mannheimer, [[Göteborgs Symfoniker]]
|[[Sterling Records (Sweden)|Sterling]]
|-
|1980
|[[François Dompierre|Dompierre]]: Piano Concerto / Harmonica Flash
|[[Orchestre symphonique de Montréal]]
|DG
|-
|1981
|[[Saint-Saëns]]: Danse macabre / Phaéton / Le Rouet d'Omphale etc.
|[[Philharmonia Orchestra]]
|[[Decca Records|Decca]]
|-
|1981
|[[Maurice Ravel|Ravel]]: [[Daphnis et Chloé]]
|Chœur et Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1981
|[[Édouard Lalo|Lalo]]: [[Symphonie espagnole]] / [[Saint-Saëns]]: [[Violin Concerto No. 1 (Saint-Saëns)|Violin Concerto No. 1]]
|[[Kyung Wha Chung|Kyung-Wha Chung]], Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1981
|[[Robert Schumann|Schumann]]: [[Piano Concerto (Schumann)|Piano Concerto]] / [[Rachmaninoff]]: [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)|Piano Concerto No. 2]]
|[[Alicia de Larrocha|Alicia De Larrocha]], Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
|Decca
|-
|1981
|[[Joaquín Rodrigo|Rodrigo]]: [[Concierto de Aranjuez|Concierto De Aranjuez]] / [[Fantasía para un gentilhombre|Fantasía para un Gentilhombre]]
|[[Carlos Bonell]], Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1981
|[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]: Piano Concertos Nos. [[Piano Concerto No. 26 (Mozart)|26]] and [[Piano Concerto No. 27 (Mozart)|27]]
|[[Rafael Orozco (pianist)|Rafaël Orozco]], English Chamber Orchestra
|[[EMI]]
|-
|1981
|Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 / [[Variations on a Rococo Theme|Rococo Variations]]
|[[Myung-whun Chung|Myung-Whun Chung]], [[Myung-wha Chung|Myung-Wha Chung]], [[Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra]]
|Decca
|-
|1981
|Tchaikovsky: Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra
|[[Pierre Amoyal]], Philharmonia Orchestra
|Erato
|-
|1981
|Saint-Saëns: The 5 Piano Concertos
|[[Pascal Rogé]], Royal Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra
|Decca (released individually)
|-
|1981
|[[Sibelius]]: [[Violin Concerto (Sibelius)|Violin Concerto]] / [[Six Humoresques|Humoresques]]
|Pierre Amoyal, Philharmonia Orchestra
|Erato
|-
|1982
|Tchaikovsky / Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos
|Kyung-Wha Chung, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1982
|Saint-Saëns: [[Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)|Symphony No. 3 "Organ"]]
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1982
|Ravel: Orchestral Works
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1982
|Stravinsky: [[Symphony in C (Stravinsky)|Symphony in C]] / [[Symphony in Three Movements]]
|[[L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande]]
|Decca
|-
|1982
|Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 / [[Prokofiev]]: [[Piano Sonata No. 2 (Prokofiev)|Piano Sonata No. 2]]
|[[Pascal Devoyon]], Philharmonia Orchestra
|Erato
|-
|1982
|[[Fauré]]: ''[[Pénélope]]''
|[[Jessye Norman]], [[Alain Vanzo]], [[Jocelyne Taillon]], [[José van Dam]], [[Philippe Huttenlocher]], Ensemble Vocal Jean Laforge, [[Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo|Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo]]
|Erato
|-
|1983
|[[De Falla]]: ''[[The Three-Cornered Hat]]'' / ''[[El amor brujo|El Amor Brujo]]''
|[[Colette Boky]], [[Huguette Tourangeau]], Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1983
|[[Respighi]]: ''[[Pines of Rome]]'' / ''[[Fountains of Rome (symphonic poem)|Fountains of Rome]]'' / ''[[Roman Festivals (Respighi)|Roman Festivals]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1983
|[[Vincent d'Indy|D'Indy]]: [[Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français|Symphonie sur un chant Montagnard Français]] / [[César Franck|Franck]]: [[Variations symphoniques]] / Fauré: [[Ballade (Fauré)|Ballade]]
|[[Philippe Entremont]], Philharmonia Orchestra
|[[CBS Masterworks]]
|-
|1983
|Ravel: The Piano Concertos / ''[[Menuet antique]]'' / ''[[Une barque sur l'ocean|Une barque sur l'océan]]''
|Pascal Rogé, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1983
|Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos. [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mendelssohn)|1]] & [[Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mendelssohn)|2]]
|[[András Schiff]], [[Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra]]
|Decca
|-
|1983
|''Noël – Noël''
|[[Leontyne Price]], Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1984
|Honegger: Symphonies Nos. [[Symphony No. 3 "Symphonie Liturgique" (Honegger)|3 "''Liturgique"'']] & [[Symphony No. 4 (Honegger)|4 ''"Di Tre Re''"]]
|Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
|Erato
|-
|1984
|[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov|Rimsky-Korsakov]]: ''[[Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)|Shéhérazade]]'' / ''[[Capriccio Espagnol]]''
|Richard Roberts, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1984
|[[Jacques Offenbach|Offenbach]]: ''[[Gaîté Parisienne|Gaîté parisienne]]'' / [[Charles Gounod|Gounod]]: ''[[Faust (Gounod)|Faust]]'' (ballet music)
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1984
|Ravel: Orchestral Works
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1984
|Stravinsky: ''[[The Rite of Spring|Le sacre du Printemps]]'' / [[Symphonies of Wind Instruments]]
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1985
|[[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]]: ''[[Symphonie fantastique]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1985
|[[Franz von Suppé|Suppé]]: Overtures
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1985
|[[Emmanuel Chabrier|Chabrier]]: ''[[Le roi malgré lui|Le Roi Malgré Lui]]''
|[[Barbara Hendricks]], Isabel Garcisanz, [[Gino Quilico]], Peter Jeffes, [[Jean-Philippe Lafont]], [[Radio France|Chœurs de Radio France]], [[Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France]]
|Erato
|-
|1985
|Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Moreno-Buendía: ''Suite concertante''
|[[Marisa Robles]], Philharmonia Orchestra
|Decca
|-
|1986
|Saint-Saëns: ''[[The Carnival of the Animals]]''
|[[Cristina Ortiz]], Pascal Rogé, [[London Sinfonietta]]
|Decca
|-
|1986
|Tchaikovsky: ''[[1812 Overture]]'' / ''[[Capriccio Italien]]'' / ''[[The Nutcracker]] Suite'' / ''[[Marche slave]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1986
|Berlioz: ''[[Roméo et Juliette (Berlioz)|Roméo et Juliette]]'' / ''[[Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale|Symphonie funèbre]]''
|[[Florence Quivar]], Alberto Cupido, [[Tom Krause]], L'Ensemble vocal Tudor de Montréal, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1986
|Stravinsky: ''[[The Firebird]]'' / ''[[Scherzo fantastique]]'' / ''[[Feu d'artifice|Fireworks]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1987
|[[Gustav Holst|Holst]]: ''[[The Planets]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1987
|Mendelssohn: ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' / ''[[The Hebrides (overture)|The Hebrides]]'' / ''[[Ruy Blas]]'' / ''[[Die schöne Melusine]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1987
|Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
|[[Jorge Bolet]], Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1987
|[[Albert Roussel|Roussel]]: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
|[[Orchestre National de France|Orchestre national de France]]
|Erato
|-
|1987
|[[Modest Mussorgsky|Mussorgsky]]: ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]'' / ''[[Night on Bald Mountain|The Night on Bare Mountain]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1987
|Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
|Orchestre national de France
|Erato
|-
|1987
|Stravinsky: Pétrouchka / ''[[Le chant du rossignol|Le Chant du Rossignol]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1987
|Stravinsky: ''[[L'Histoire du soldat|L'histoire du Soldat]]'' / ''[[Renard (Stravinsky)|Renard]]''
|[[Éric Tappy|Eric Tappy]], Pierre-André Blazer, Philippe Huttenlocher, [[Jules Bastin]], various instrumental soloists
|Erato
|-
|1987
|Ravel: ''[[Boléro]]'' / ''[[La valse]]'' / ''Daphnis et Chloé'' Suite No. 2 / ''[[Pavane pour une infante défunte]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1988
|Fauré: ''[[Requiem (Fauré)|Requiem]]'' / ''[[Pelléas et Mélisande (Fauré)|Pelléas et Mélisande]]'' / ''[[Pavane (Fauré)|Pavane]]''
|[[Kiri Te Kanawa]], [[Sherrill Milnes]], Chœur et Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1988
|[[Bizet]]: ''[[L'Arlésienne (Bizet)|L'Arlésienne]]'' and ''[[Carmen]]'' Suites
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1988
|Berlioz: ''[[Harold en Italie]]''
|[[Pinchas Zukerman]], Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1988
|Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. [[Symphony No. 1 (Prokofiev)|1]] & [[Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev)|5]]
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1988
|Roussel: ''[[Bacchus and Ariadne (ballet)|Bacchus et Ariadne]]'' / Suite in F
|[[Orchestre de Paris]]
|Erato
|-
|1989
|[[Sofia Gubaidulina|Gubaidulina]]: ''Offertorium''
|[[Gidon Kremer]], [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]]
|DG
|-
|1989
|''Fête à la Française''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1989
|[[Édouard Lalo|Lalo]]: ''[[Symphonie espagnole]]'' / Saint-Saëns: [[Violin Concerto No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)|Violin Concerto No. 3]]
|[[Joshua Bell]], Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1989
|[[George Gershwin|Gershwin]]: ''[[Rhapsody in Blue]]'' / ''[[An American in Paris]]'' / ''[[Porgy and Bess|Porgy and Bess – A Symphonic Portrait]]''
|[[Louis Lortie]], Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1989
|Tchaikovsky: [[Symphony No. 4 (Tchaikovsky)|Symphony No. 4]]
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1990
|[[Frédéric Chopin|Chopin]]: Piano Concertos
|Jorge Bolet, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1990
|Debussy: ''[[Images pour orchestre|Images]]'' / ''[[Nocturnes (Debussy)|Nocturnes]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1990
|[[Edward Elgar|Elgar]]: ''[[Enigma Variations]]'' / ''[[Falstaff (Elgar)|Falstaff]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1990
|Tchaikovsky: [[Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)|Symphony No. 5]] / ''[[Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)|Hamlet]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|-
|1990
|Debussy: ''[[La mer (Debussy)|La Mer]]'' / ''[[Jeux]]'' / ''[[Le Martyre de saint Sébastien|Le martyre de Saint Sébastien]]'' / ''[[Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune|Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune]]''
|Orchestre symphonique de Montréal
|Decca
|}


==References==
==References==
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*{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=q21567}}
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*[http://www.emiclassics.com/artistbiography.php?aid=12 Charles Dutoit biography] at [[EMI Classics]]
*[http://www.emiclassics.com/artistbiography.php?aid=12 Charles Dutoit biography] at [[EMI Classics]]
*[http://www.bruceduffie.com/dutoit.html Charles Dutoit interview], 26 March 1986
*[http://www.bruceduffie.com/dutoit.html Charles Dutoit interview], 26 March 1986
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101120024138/http://www.journaldunecreation.com/ Journal d'une création – Film directed by James Dormeyer with Chantal Juillet, Charles Dutoit and André Prévost]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101120024138/http://www.journaldunecreation.com/ Journal d'une création – Film directed by James Dormeyer with Chantal Juillet, Charles Dutoit and André Prévost]
*[http://www.verbierfestival.com/index.php?page=music_director_en Verbier Festival page on Charles Dutoit]
*[http://www.verbierfestival.com/index.php?page=music_director_en Verbier Festival page on Charles Dutoit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928074221/http://www.verbierfestival.com/index.php?page=music_director_en |date=28 September 2011 }}


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Charles Dutoit
OC GOQ
Dutoit conducting in 1984
Born
Charles Édouard Dutoit

Lausanne, Switzerland
Occupation(s)Conductor, pedagogue
Years active1957–present
Websitecharlesdutoitofficial.com

Charles Édouard Dutoit OC GOQ is a Swiss conductor. He is the principal guest conductor for the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia.[1]

In 2017, he became the 103rd recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal Award. Dutoit held previous positions with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Tokyo NHK Symphony and the Orchestre National de France. As of 2017, he was conductor emeritus of the Verbier Music Festival Orchestra. He is an honorary member of the Ravel Foundation in France and the Stravinsky Foundation in Switzerland.

In December 2017, following allegations of sexual assault, the Boston and San Francisco Symphonies cancelled his engagements.[2] In a statement, Dutoit denied the charges.[3]

Biography

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Dutoit was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. He studied there, and graduated from the Conservatoire de musique de Genève, where he won first prize in conducting. Then he went to the Accademia Chigiana in Siena at the invitation of Alceo Galliera. In his younger days, he frequently attended Ernest Ansermet's rehearsals and had a personal acquaintance with him. He also worked with Herbert von Karajan at Lucerne as a member of the festival youth orchestra and studied at Tanglewood.[4][5][6]

Dutoit began his professional music career in 1957 as a viola player with various orchestras across Europe and South America. In January 1959, he made his debut as a professional conductor with an orchestra of Radio Lausanne and Martha Argerich. From 1959 he was a guest conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. After this, he was the conductor for Radio Zurich until 1967, when he took over the Bern Symphony Orchestra from Paul Kletzki, where he stayed for 11 years.[7][6]

While head of the Bern Symphony, he also conducted the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico from 1973 to 1975, and Sweden's Gothenburg Symphony from 1975 to 1978. Dutoit was principal guest conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra in the early 1980s.[6]

In 1977, Dutoit became the artistic director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM). In the words of Glasgow-based music critic Kate Molleson: "A 20-year recording contract with Decca made the MSO the most recorded orchestra in the world, and the best of these recordings — Ravel's La Valse and Daphnis et Chloe, Debussy's La Mer, Stravinsky's French-period ballets — remain unsurpassed."[8] Reaction to Dutoit joining the Montreal Symphony was positive. Peter G. Davis stated that Dutoit transformed the Montreal Symphony.[9] New York Magazine wrote similarly about Dutoit, adding that he was noted for the championing of new Canadian music.[10] Throughout these years, he called without success for a new symphony concert hall for Montréal.[11] Dutoit resigned from the Montreal Symphony in April 2002, with immediate effect, after the Quebec Musicians Guild complained about what it called Dutoit's "offensive behaviour and complete lack of respect for the musicians".[12][13][14] In January 2018, the OSM acknowledged ignoring complaints from musicians of verbal and 'psychological harassment' by Dutoit dating back to the 1990s.[15] He did not return to the OSM as a guest conductor until 2016, in a concert at the new Maison Symphonique de Montréal.[16]

Dutoit has received more than 40 international awards and distinctions, including two Grammy Awards (United States), several Juno Awards (Canada), the Grand Prix du Président de la République (France), the Prix mondial du disque de Montreux (Switzerland), the Amsterdam Edison Award, the Japan Record Academy Award, and the German Music Critics' Award. He and the OSM made many recordings for the Decca/London label.[citation needed]

Dutoit first conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1980. From 1990 to 1999, he was music director of the orchestra's summer concerts at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts. From 1990 to 2010, he was artistic director and principal conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra's summer festival in Saratoga Springs, New York. In 1991, he was made an Honorary Citizen of the city of Philadelphia. In February 2007, Dutoit was named the orchestra's chief conductor and artistic adviser, for a contract of four years, effective September 2008.[17] Following the conclusion of his contract in Philadelphia in 2012, the orchestra named him its conductor laureate, as of the 2012–13 season.[18]

Since 1990, Dutoit has directed the Pacific Music Festival in Japan. From 1991 to 2001, Dutoit was music director of the Orchestre National de France, with whom he made a number of recordings and toured extensively. In 1996, he was appointed principal conductor and in 1998 music director of Tokyo's NHK Symphony Orchestra. For the NHK television network, he made a series of documentary films for the young people called "Cities of Music" in Venice, St Petersburg, Tokyo, Buenos Aires (plus Rio de Janeiro and Manhaus), New York, Vienna, Budapest, Leipzig, Dresden, Paris and London.[19] In 1997, he was made an honorary Officer of the Order of Canada. He is also one of a handful of non-Canadian citizens to be a Grand Officer of the Ordre national du Québec.[citation needed]

In April 2007, Dutoit was named principal conductor and artistic director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as of 2009.[20] In October 2019 he was scheduled to stand down as the RPO's principal conductor and to take the title of Honorary Conductor for Life of the orchestra, but instead he resigned in January 2018.[21][22]

Between 2009 and 2017, Dutoit also served as the music director of the Verbier Festival Orchestra in Switzerland.[23] In April 2014, Dutoit received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Classical Music Awards. He was also made an honorary member of Fondation Igor Stravinsky in Geneva[24] and Fondation Ravel in Monfort l'Amaury, France.[25]

In September 2018, Dutoit was named principal guest conductor of the St Petersburg Philharmonic, effective May 2019.[26]

In late 2021, Dutoit withdrew from a scheduled subscription concert of the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra due to his infection with COVID-19.[27] He was subsequently booked by the Orchestra to conduct in Summer, 2023.[28]

Personal life

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Dutoit shuns publicity and protects his private life from the media. He has been married four times. His first marriage was to Ruth Cury, by whom he has a son, Ivan, who lives in Santa Monica, California, with his family; his children are Anne-Sophie and Jean-Sebastian. Dutoit was also married to Argentine concert pianist Martha Argerich (with whom he has a daughter, Anne-Catherine) and to Canadian economist Marie-Josée Drouin. He is now married to Canadian violinist Chantal Juillet.[29]

Allegations of sexual assault

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In 2017 four women accused Dutoit of sexually assaulting them between the late 1970s and 2010.[30][31] The alleged incidents occurred in a variety of places.[32][31][33] One allegation was contested by witnesses.[34] The allegations were made by Paula Rasmussen, mezzo-soprano (1991, Los Angeles);[35] Sylvia McNair, soprano (1985, Minnesota);[35][36] and Jenny Q. Chai, pianist.[37][38] A singer with the Philadelphia Orchestra also claimed that Dutoit assaulted her in 2006 in upstate New York and again in 2010 in Philadelphia.[32][37][39] A 24-year-old musician with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago alleged that Dutoit forced himself on her in 2006.[35] In January 2018, Fiona Allan, a British theatre administrator, said that when she was an intern Dutoit sexually assaulted her at Tanglewood 20 years earlier.[31][40][22][41][42]

In March 2018, the Boston Symphony said that Allan's allegations were "credible" and that three other women "credibly described incidents in the 1980s and 1990s in which they, too, were victims of Dutoit's sexual misconduct."[43]

Other women also claimed assault.[44][31][45]

Reaction

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In January 2018 Dutoit resigned from his position as artistic director and principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.[22] Several other orchestras either cancelled engagements or severed ties with him, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra (which also removed his title of conductor laureate), the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.[46][47][48][49]

The same month, Canadian CBC Radio/CBC Radio Two adopted a policy of no longer crediting Dutoit as conductor when it played his recordings.[50]

Orchestras with which Dutoit has recorded

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  • London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) DGG – Philips – Decca
  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) DGG – Decca – Erato – RCA
  • Philharmonia Orchestra, London Decca – Erato – EMI – CBS-Sony
  • London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) DGG
  • English Chamber Orchestra (ECO) Erato – EMI Classics for Pleasure
  • London Sinfonietta Decca
  • Bayerische Rundfunk Orchester München Decca – Erato
  • Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam Decca – EMI
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra DGG
  • Los Angeles Philharmonic Decca
  • Montreal Symphony Decca-DGG-EMI-CBC Records-Philips
  • Montreal Sinfonietta Decca
  • Philadelphia Orchestra Decca
  • NHK Symphony, Tokyo Decca – Sony
  • Orchestre National de France Erato – Decca -Virgin Classics
  • Orchestre de Paris Erato
  • Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France Erato
  • Solistes de l'Opéra de Paris Erato
  • Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Decca – Pentatone
  • Orchestre de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo Erato
  • Göteborg Symphony, Sweden Sterling – Caprice – BIS
  • Orchestra de la Svizzera Italiana EMI
  • Norddeutsche Rundfunk Hamburg (NDR) NDR production
  • Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra – Sony[51]

Honors

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External audio
audio icon Charles Dutoit conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra performing works by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky including:
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 with Pascal Devoyon
Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 with Pierre Amoyal in 1991
Here on archive.org
  • 1982 – Musician of the Year, Canadian Music Council
  • 1982 – Great Montrealer
  • 1984 – Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Montreal
  • 1985 – Docteur en Musique, Laval University, Quebec
  • 1988 – Canadian Music Council Medal
  • 1988 – Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
  • 1991 – Honorary Citizen of the City of Philadelphia
  • 1994 – Diploma of Honor by the Canadian Conference of the Arts
  • 1995 – Grand Officier de l'Ordre National du Québec
  • 1996 – Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
  • 1996 – Doctorem Musicae, McGill University
  • 2002 – Honorary Officer of the Order of Canada
  • 2003 – Prize to the best foreign Conductor 2002, Music Critic's Association of Argentina
  • 2007 – Médaille d'Or de la Ville de Lausanne
  • 2009 – Artistic Advisor, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
  • 2010 – Co-director of MISA Festival, Shanghai
  • 2012 – Guangzhou Opera House (China) – Honorary Artistic Advisor
  • 2012 – The Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia – Tribute
  • 2014 – Lifetime Achievement Award – ICMA (International Classical Music Awards), Warsaw[52]
  • 2015 – Honorary Member of the Igor Stravinsky Foundation, Geneva
  • 2016 – Honorary Committee Member of the Maurice Ravel Foundation, Paris
  • 2016 – Koussevitzky Artist, Boston Symphony Orchestra (Tanglewood)
  • 2016 – Nanjing University of the Arts, China: Lifetime Honorary Professor
  • 2016 – Special Contribution Award,18th Shanghai International Arts Festival
  • 2016 – Lauréat 2016, Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture, Lausanne
  • 2017 – Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal[53]
  • 2022 – Premio Una Vita Nella Musica from Teatro La Fenice, Venezia [54]
  • 2024 – Asociacíon de Críticos Musicales de la Argentina, Mejor Director de Orquesta Extranjero, Temporada 2023,[55]

Prizes

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  • 1971 – Edison Award, Amsterdam (Tchaikowsky Piano Concerto, Martha Argerich, RPO)
  • 1972 – Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros (Stravinsky The Soldier's Tale)
  • 1973 – Grand Prix Spécial du 25ème Anniversaire de l'Académie du Disque Français (Honegger Le Roi David, Solistes de l'Opéra de Paris)
  • 1978 – Premio della Critica Discografica Italiana (Paganini 6 Concerti per violino, Salvatore Accardo, LPO)
  • 1978 – Prix Caecilia de l'Union de la Presse Musicale Belge (Paganini 6 Concerti per violino, Salvatore Accardo, LPO)
  • 1981 – Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros (Lalo, Caplet, Frédéric Lodéon, cello, Philharmonia Orchestra)
  • 1981 – Grammy nomination (Chaminade, Ibert, etc., James Galway, flute, RPO)
  • 1982 – Académie du Disque Français, Grand Prix du Disque (Fauré Pénélope, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo)
  • 1982 – Prix Caecilia de l'Union de la Presse Musicale Belge (Fauré Pénélope)
  • 1982 – Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros (Fauré Pénélope)
  • 1982 – High Fidelity International Record Critics Award (IRCA) (Fauré Pénélope)
  • 1982 – Grammy nomination (Fauré Pénélope)
  • 1982 – Grammy nomination (Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2, Schumann Piano Concerto, Alicia de Larrocha, RPO)
  • 1982 – Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros (Ravel Daphnis & Chloé, OSM)
  • 1982 – Prix Mondial du Disque de Montreux (Ravel Daphnis & Chloé, OSM)
  • 1982 – Prix Juno – Canada (Ravel Daphnis & Chloé, OSM)
  • 1983 – Grand Prix du Disque, Canada (Ravel Daphnis & Chloé, OSM)
  • 1983 – 21st Annual Japan Record Academy Award (Ravel Daphnis & Chloé, OSM)
  • 1983 – Disque d'Or, Canada (Ravel Album, OSM)
  • 1983 – Prix Félix (ADISQ) – Canada (Ravel Album, OSM)
  • 1983 – Grand Prix de l'Académie du Disque Français (Saint-Saëns 5 Piano Concertos, Pascal Rogé, RPO, LPO, Philharmonia Orchestra)
  • 1984 – Académie du Disque Français, Prix de la Musique Française (Saint-Saëns Symphony No 3 "Organ", OSM)
  • 1984 – Académie du Disque Français, Mention Spéciale (Chabrier Le Roi malgré lui, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France)
  • 1984 – Académie du Disque Français, Grand Prix Audio-visuel de l'Europe (Honegger Symphonies No 3 and No 5, Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra, Munich)
  • 1984 – Disque de Platine, Canada (Ravel Boléro, OSM)
  • 1984 – Académie du Disque Français, Prix Georges-Auric (Falla El amor brujo, Three- cornered Hat, OSM)
  • 1984 – High Fidelity International Record Critics Award (IRCA) (Falla Album, OSM)
  • 1984 – Prix Manuel De Falla, Granada (Falla Album, OSM)
  • 1984 – Grammy nomination (Noël, Noël with Leontyne Price, OSM)
  • 1984 – Prix du Concerto Français de l'Académie du Disque, Paris (Ravel Piano Concertos, Pascal Rogé, OSM)
  • 1984 – Edison Award, Amsterdam (Ravel Piano Concertos, Pascal Rogé, OSM)
  • 1985 – Gramophone Record Award (Engineering and Production) (Ravel Album, OSM)
  • 1985 – Prix Juno – Canada (Ravel Album, OSM)
  • 1985 – Prix Félix (ADISQ) – Canada – Record of the year (Stravinsky The Rite of Spring + Symphonies of Winds, OSM)
  • 1986 – Grand Prix du Président de la République, Académie Nationale du Disque Français, (Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, OSM)
  • 1986 – Stereo Review, Record of the Year Award (Chabrier Le Roi malgré lui, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France)
  • 1986 – Prix José Bruyr – Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros (Honegger symphonies No 2 and No 4, Bayerische Rundfunk, Munich)
  • 1986 – Prix Félix (ADISQ) – Canada – Record of the year (Von Suppé Eight Overtures, OSM)
  • 1987 – Gramophone Recording Award (Holst The Planets, OSM)
  • 1987 – Grammy nomination (Holst The Planets, OSM)
  • 1987 – Prix Juno – Canada (Holst The Planets, OSM)
  • 1987 – Prix Caecilia de l'Union de la Presse Musicale Belge (Roussel Symphonies, Orchestre National de France)
  • 1987 – Prix Félix (ADISQ) – Canada – Record of the year (Tchaikowsky Album, OSM)
  • 1988 – Edison Award, Amsterdam (Holst The Planets, OSM)
  • 1988 – Mumm Champagne Classical Music Award (Holst The Planets, OSM)
  • 1988 – Grand Prix du Disque, Canada (Holst The Planets, OSM)
  • 1988 – Laser d'Or, Académie du Disque Français (Stravinsky Petrushka, Chant du Rossignol, 4 Études, OSM)
  • 1988 – Grand Prix du Disque, Canada (Stravinsky Petrushka, etc., OSM)
  • 1989 – Prix Juno – Canada (Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, OSM)
  • 1990 – Prix Félix (ADISQ) – (Gershwin Album, Louis Lortie, piano, OSM)
  • 1991 – Grand Prix de l'Académie du Disque, Japan (Debussy Album, OSM)
  • 1991 – Prix Juno – Canada (Debussy Album, OSM)
  • 1991 – Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Germany (Debussy Pelléas & Mélisande, OSM)
  • 1991 – Prix Félix (ADISQ) – Canada – Best record of the year (Debussy Pelléas & Mélisande, OSM)
  • 1992 – Prix Juno – Canada (Debussy Pelléas & Mélisande, OSM)
  • 1992 – Grammy nomination (Debussy Pelléas & Mélisande, OSM)
  • 1994 – Nouvelle Académie du Disque: Grand Prix Anniversaire Tchaikowsky, Paris (The Complete Nutcracker, OSM)
  • 1995 – Palmarès des Palmarès, Nouvelle Académie du Disque, Paris (Berlioz Les Troyens, OSM)
  • 1995 – Académie française du Disque Lyrique, Orphée du Prestige Lyrique, Paris (Berlioz Les Troyens, OSM)
  • 1995 – Grammy nomination for best Classical recording of the year (Berlioz Les Troyens, OSM)
  • 1995 – Prix Juno – Best classical recording of the year (Berlioz Les Troyens, OSM)
  • 1995 – Grammy: Best Opera Recording (Berlioz Les Troyens, OSM)
  • 1995 – Grammy nomination, (Mussorgsky Pictures at an exhibition, OSM)
  • 1996 – Grammy nomination (Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, OSM)
  • 1996 – Prix Juno – Canadian Academy of Recording and Sciences (Shostakovich Symphonies No 5 and No 9, OSM)
  • 1997 – Prix Juno – Canada – Best recording of the year (Berlioz Damnation de Faust, OSM)
  • 1997 – Palmarès des Palmarès, Paris: Grand Prix, Nouvelle Académie du Disque (Berlioz Damnation de Faust)
  • 1997 – Prix de l'Académie du Disque, Japan (Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, OSM)
  • 1997 – Prix de l'Académie du Disque, Japan (Debussy Album, OSM)
  • 1999 – London / Decca Legends (Ravel Daphnis & Chloé, OSM)
  • 2000 – Prix Juno – Canada (Respighi: La Boutique Fantasque, Impressioni Brasiliane, OSM)
  • 2000 – Grammy: Best Soloist with Orchestra (Bartok Piano Concerto No 3, Prokofiev Concertos No 1 and No 3, Martha Argerich, OSM)
  • 2002 – Prix Juno – Canada (Bruch 3 Violin Concertos, James Ehnes, OSM)
  • 2004 – New York Times Best Classical Discs of the year (Theodorakis "Zorba", OSM)
  • 2007 – Grammy nomination (Franck Symphonic Variations, Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos No 2 and No 5, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande OSR)
  • 2 Grammy Awards: 1995 and 2000.[56]
  • 9 Grammy nominations: 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1992, 1995, 1996, and 2007.[56]

Discography

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Year Title Artist(s) (Dutoit as conductor) Label
1970 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 Martha Argerich, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra DG
1971 Honegger: Le Roi David Various soloists Erato
1974 Stravinsky: Pulcinella / Apollon Musagète English Chamber Orchestra Erato
1974 Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 6 Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra DG
1975 Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 3 / Viola Sonata Salvatore Accardo, Dino Asciolla, London Philharmonic Orchestra DG
1975 Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 5 Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra DG
1976 Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra DG
1976 Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra Philips
1977 Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 4 Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra DG
1977 Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 2 "La Campanella" Salvatore Accardo, London Philharmonic Orchestra DG
1977 Stravinsky: Petrushka Tamás Vásáry, London Symphony Orchestra DG
1977 French Flute Concertos James Galway, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra RCA
1977 Stenhammar: Piano Concerto No. 1 Irene Mannheimer, Göteborgs Symfoniker Sterling
1980 Dompierre: Piano Concerto / Harmonica Flash Orchestre symphonique de Montréal DG
1981 Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre / Phaéton / Le Rouet d'Omphale etc. Philharmonia Orchestra Decca
1981 Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Chœur et Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1981 Lalo: Symphonie espagnole / Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 1 Kyung-Wha Chung, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1981 Schumann: Piano Concerto / Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 Alicia De Larrocha, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Decca
1981 Rodrigo: Concierto De Aranjuez / Fantasía para un Gentilhombre Carlos Bonell, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1981 Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 26 and 27 Rafaël Orozco, English Chamber Orchestra EMI
1981 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Rococo Variations Myung-Whun Chung, Myung-Wha Chung, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Decca
1981 Tchaikovsky: Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra Pierre Amoyal, Philharmonia Orchestra Erato
1981 Saint-Saëns: The 5 Piano Concertos Pascal Rogé, Royal Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra Decca (released individually)
1981 Sibelius: Violin Concerto / Humoresques Pierre Amoyal, Philharmonia Orchestra Erato
1982 Tchaikovsky / Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos Kyung-Wha Chung, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1982 Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 "Organ" Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1982 Ravel: Orchestral Works Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1982 Stravinsky: Symphony in C / Symphony in Three Movements L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Decca
1982 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 2 Pascal Devoyon, Philharmonia Orchestra Erato
1982 Fauré: Pénélope Jessye Norman, Alain Vanzo, Jocelyne Taillon, José van Dam, Philippe Huttenlocher, Ensemble Vocal Jean Laforge, Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo Erato
1983 De Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat / El Amor Brujo Colette Boky, Huguette Tourangeau, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1983 Respighi: Pines of Rome / Fountains of Rome / Roman Festivals Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1983 D'Indy: Symphonie sur un chant Montagnard Français / Franck: Variations symphoniques / Fauré: Ballade Philippe Entremont, Philharmonia Orchestra CBS Masterworks
1983 Ravel: The Piano Concertos / Menuet antique / Une barque sur l'océan Pascal Rogé, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1983 Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 András Schiff, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Decca
1983 Noël – Noël Leontyne Price, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1984 Honegger: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Liturgique" & 4 "Di Tre Re" Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Erato
1984 Rimsky-Korsakov: Shéhérazade / Capriccio Espagnol Richard Roberts, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1984 Offenbach: Gaîté parisienne / Gounod: Faust (ballet music) Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1984 Ravel: Orchestral Works Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1984 Stravinsky: Le sacre du Printemps / Symphonies of Wind Instruments Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1985 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1985 Suppé: Overtures Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1985 Chabrier: Le Roi Malgré Lui Barbara Hendricks, Isabel Garcisanz, Gino Quilico, Peter Jeffes, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Chœurs de Radio France, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France Erato
1985 Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Moreno-Buendía: Suite concertante Marisa Robles, Philharmonia Orchestra Decca
1986 Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals Cristina Ortiz, Pascal Rogé, London Sinfonietta Decca
1986 Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture / Capriccio Italien / The Nutcracker Suite / Marche slave Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1986 Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette / Symphonie funèbre Florence Quivar, Alberto Cupido, Tom Krause, L'Ensemble vocal Tudor de Montréal, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1986 Stravinsky: The Firebird / Scherzo fantastique / Fireworks Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1987 Holst: The Planets Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1987 Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream / The Hebrides / Ruy Blas / Die schöne Melusine Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1987 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 / Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 Jorge Bolet, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1987 Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 Orchestre national de France Erato
1987 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / The Night on Bare Mountain Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1987 Roussel: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 Orchestre national de France Erato
1987 Stravinsky: Pétrouchka / Le Chant du Rossignol Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1987 Stravinsky: L'histoire du Soldat / Renard Eric Tappy, Pierre-André Blazer, Philippe Huttenlocher, Jules Bastin, various instrumental soloists Erato
1987 Ravel: Boléro / La valse / Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2 / Pavane pour une infante défunte Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1988 Fauré: Requiem / Pelléas et Mélisande / Pavane Kiri Te Kanawa, Sherrill Milnes, Chœur et Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1988 Bizet: L'Arlésienne and Carmen Suites Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1988 Berlioz: Harold en Italie Pinchas Zukerman, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1988 Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1988 Roussel: Bacchus et Ariadne / Suite in F Orchestre de Paris Erato
1989 Gubaidulina: Offertorium Gidon Kremer, Boston Symphony Orchestra DG
1989 Fête à la Française Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1989 Lalo: Symphonie espagnole / Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3 Joshua Bell, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1989 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / An American in Paris / Porgy and Bess – A Symphonic Portrait Louis Lortie, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1989 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1990 Chopin: Piano Concertos Jorge Bolet, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1990 Debussy: Images / Nocturnes Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1990 Elgar: Enigma Variations / Falstaff Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1990 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 / Hamlet Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca
1990 Debussy: La Mer / Jeux / Le martyre de Saint Sébastien / Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Decca

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