Hobart Earle

Hobart Earle (born 20 December 1960) is a Venezuelan-born conductor of American descent and People's Artist of Ukraine recipient.

Hobart Earle was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. He attended Gordonstoun School in Scotland and Princeton University in New Jersey. He also attended the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria. At Princeton, he studied composition and music theory with Milton Babbitt, Edward Cone, Claudio Spies, and Paul Lansky. During his years in Vienna he was a member of the Vienna Singverein, and took part in performances and recordings under Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel and many others.

Earle became well known for conducting the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra at the Odessa Philharmonic Theater. He elevated the orchestra to a position of international prominence, appearing in such concert halls in Europe as Barbican Centre, Beethovenhalle of Germany, Franz Liszt Academy of Music, Musikverein, National Auditorium of Madrid the Great Halls of both Moscow and Saint Petersburg Conservatories and in the United States at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Center, Davies Hall and the United Nations General Assembly. As a guest conductor, he appeared with such as orchestras in Europe as Vienna Chamber and Tonkünstler Orchestra, the Noord Nederlands Orkest in the Netherlands, the Krakow Philharmonic and Sinfonia Iuventus in Poland, the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa and Athens State Symphony, Orchestra della Toscana and Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana in Italy and in the United States with such orchestras as Buffalo and Florida Philharmonic Orchestras, the Orchestra Nova San Diego and North Carolina Symphony. In Asia, he has been a guest of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Southeast Asian Youth Orchestra.

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