Alan Gilbert is an American conductor, born in New York in 1967. His father, Michael Gilbert, is a retired violinist from the New York Philharmonic, while his mother, Yoko Takabe, continues to play as a member of the orchestra. Growing up in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, he attended the Ethical Culture School and Fieldston. Gilbert studied the violin and viola at various institutions such as Harvard University, … Wikipedia
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