BPO Music Director: 1963-71 As a fifteen-year-old prodigy Lukas Foss arrived in America in 1937 where he enrolled at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. By that time he had already been composing for eight years, with lessons in his native Berlin with his first piano teacher, Julius Herford . After his family fled Nazi Germany in 1933 Foss studied in Paris with Lazare Levy , Noel Gallon and Felix Wolfes , and advanced flute with Louis Moyse . music.buffalo.edu
Ever since his early days as a musical "wunderkind," Lukas Foss has shown himself to be one of that rare breed -- an all-around musician, enjoying equally stellar reputations as a composer, conductor, pianist, educator, and spokesman for his art. The pre www.newalbion.com/artists/fossl/