Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

male, deceased (1990)
west side story, American, Conductor, composer, musician, Classical composer…classical music, Classicalmusician, LGBT musician, Classical pianist
Leonard Bernstein (August 25 1918 – October 14 1990) was an American conductor, composer, and pianist. He was the first conductor born in the Un...
Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

male, 48 years old
Grammy Award winner, American classical trumpeter, American jazz trumpeter, Juilliard School of Music alumni, Louisiana Creole, New Orleans jazz musician…Neo-bop jazz musician, Post-bop jazz musician, European classical music, To a Young Jazz Musician, jazz musician
Jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, bandleader, advocate for the arts, and educator, Wynton Marsalis has helped propel jazz to the forefront of...
Philip Glass

Philip Glass

male, 72 years old
Minimalist music, composer, film score composer, Opera composer, American, Songwriter…Classical composer, musician, Classicalmusician, Maryland musician
Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an Academy Award-nominated American composer. His music is frequently described as "minimalist", though he...
Gustavo Dudamel

Gustavo Dudamel

male, 28 years old
San Francisco Symphony, Latin-American Violin Academy, Gustav Mahler Conducting Prize, lara, musical composition, Dresden Staatskapelle…musician, Classicalmusician
He's the rock star of classical music. Handsome, talented, charismatic - the usual accolades apply to Gustavo Dudamel , at age 27, incoming music...
Joshua Bell

Joshua Bell

male, 41 years old
violinist, Jewish, Columbia Records artist, American, violin, Classicalmusician…Indiana musician, Classical violinist, musician
Joshua Bell (born 9 December 1967) is an American Grammy Award-winning violinist.
Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler

male, deceased (1911)
composer, Classicalmusician, Kindertotenlieder, Conductor, Classical composer, Das Lied von der Erde
Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860 - May 18, 1911) was a Bohemian-Austrian composer and conductor. Mahler was best known during his own lifetime as one of...
Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin

male, deceased (1999)
Autobiographer, violinist, from New York City, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Life peer, Jewish American…Classicalmusician, Classical violinist
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon, OM, KBE (April 22, 1916 – March 12, 1999) was an American violinist and conductor who spent mo...
Steve Reich

Steve Reich

male, 73 years old
American, contemporary music, phasing, musician, It's Gonna Rain, Postmodern composer…Classicalmusician, Classical composer
Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer. He is a pioneer of minimalism, although his music has increasingly deviated...
George Gershwin

George Gershwin

male, deceased (1937) (New York, New York, United States)
From Manhattan, Classical composer, Brain tumour death, Vaudeville performer, buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery, from New York City…European classical music, Classicalmusician, musician
George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 - July 11, 1937) was an American composer. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration...
Itzhak Perlman

Itzhak Perlman

male, 64 years old
Juilliard School faculty, Juilliard School of Music alumni, American, Jewish, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, virtuoso…Classicalmusician, Classical violinist, musician
Perlman began his music career at the Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv, Israel. In 1958, at the age of 13, Itzhak Perlman won an Israeli talent...