John Floore

[3] Born in Weesp, North Holland,[2] Floore was educated at the Amsterdam School of the Arts between 1961 and 1966.

He worked with guest conductors such as Eugene Ormandy, Antal Doráti, Lorin Maazel, Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur and André Previn.

[3] At the Conservatory he was general manager of the Havo voor Muziek en Dans (Academy for Music and Dance).

[5] [6] After leaving the conservatory, Floore was general manager of the Limburgs Symfonie Orkest (LSO) from 1997 to 2009.

[3] He visited Thailand often and served as a consultant to the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra before replacing Hikotaro Yazaki as artistic director in March 2009.