Robert Spano

Robert Spano

male, 48 years old
most prominent, contemporary composer, BrooklynPhilharmonic, Grammy awards, Big five, Music Director
Robert Spano (born May 7, 1961) is an American conductor and pianist. Since 2001 he has been Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra...
Lukas Foss

Lukas Foss

male, deceased (1922) (Berlin)
Jewish, Julius Goldstein, Improvisation Chamber Ensemble, Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Louis Moyse, Classical musician…Tokyo Philharmonic, BrooklynPhilharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, los angeles philharmonic
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...
Michael Christie

Michael Christie

male, 35 years old
Indianapolis, The Phoenix Symphony, Queensland Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival, BrooklynPhilharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra…los angeles philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic
Michael Christie (born 30 June 1974) was appointed as the Virginia G. Piper Music Director of The Phoenix Symphony in December 2004. His initial...
Siegfried Landau

Siegfried Landau

male, deceased (2007)
Conductor, from New York City, rabbi, German-American, Holocaust, German…BrooklynPhilharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonia
Siegfried Landau (September 4 1921 - 20 February 2007) was a German-born American conductor. Landau was born in Berlin, the son of Ezekiel Landau,...
Luciana Souza

Luciana Souza

female
Golijov, manhattan school of music, classical music, Women in jazz, Danilo Perez, Maria Schneider…BrooklynPhilharmonic, new york philharmonic, los angeles philharmonic
Luciana Souza is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer. Daughter of poet Tereza Souza and singer-composer-guitarist Walter Santos, she grew up in...

John Clark

male
musician, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Spyro Gyra, BrooklynPhilharmonic, Fugees, Ashford and Simpson
John Clark is an American jazz horn player and composer. As one of only a handful of horn players proficient in non-classical genres, Clark has...

Carlos Franzetti

male
film score, Latin Grammy Award, Boston Pops Orchestra, The Mambo King, BrooklynPhilharmonic, conducted…buffalo philharmonic orchestra
Carlos Franzetti (born June 3, 1948) is a Latin Grammy Award-winning composer and arranger from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Franzetti started studying...
Lillias White

Lillias White

female, 58 years old
Crowns, Obie Award, off-Broadway, Outer Critics Circle Awards, Drama Desk, blues…BrooklynPhilharmonic, From Brooklyn
Lillias White (born July 21, 1951) is an award-winning American singer and actress. The Brooklyn native made her Broadway debut in "Barnum" in...
Edwin Outwater

Edwin Outwater

male, 38 years old
chicago symphony orchestra, Conductor, North Carolina Symphony, BrooklynPhilharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, Round Top…Florida Philharmonic, los angeles philharmonic, Louisiana Philharmonic
Edwin Maurice Outwater (born 12 April 1971) is an American conductor from Santa Monica, California, USA. Outwater is the recently appointed Music...
Gloria Coates

Gloria Coates

female, 71 years old
Music on Open Strings, Penderecki, composer, Classical composer, glissando, American…BrooklynPhilharmonic, Stuttgart Philharmonic
Gloria Coates (October 10, 1938 in Wausau, Wisconsin) is an American composer who lives in Europe. She studied with Alexander Tcherepnin, Otto...