- Colin Davis
Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE (b. September 25, 1927), is a British Conductor. He was born in Weybridge, Surrey, UK. Davis studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was barred from taking conducting lessons owing to his lack of ability at the piano. Nonetheless, he formed and often served as conductor of the Kalmar Orchestra with fellow students. In 1952, Davis worked at the Royal Festival Hall, … - Claudio Abbado
The outstanding Italian conductor, Claudio Abbado , studied the piano at the Milan Conservatory with his father Michelangelo Abbado, and went on to study conducting with Hans Swarowsky at the Vienna Academy of Music. He won the 1958 Koussevitsky Competition, establishing him in Italy, and then won the 1963 Mitropoulos Prize, after which he rapidly became known internationally as an orchestral and opera conductor. - Neville Marriner
Sir Neville Marriner (born April 15, 1924) is an English conductor and violinist. Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia and London Symphony Orchestra and formed the Jacobean Ensemble with Thurston Dart before going to Hancock, Maine, in the United States to study conducting with Pierre Monteux at his school there. In 1959 he founded the Academy of St. - Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas (b. December 21, 1944), aka MTT, is an American conductor, pianist and composer who directs the San Francisco Symphony. - Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (b. 2 May 1953) is a Russian conductor and opera company director. He is general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. - Richard Hickox
Richard Hickox CBE (born March 5 1948) is an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music. He was born in Stokenchurch in Buckinghamshire into a musical family. After attending the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1959 to 1966, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1966 to 1967, then was an organ scholar at Queens' College, Cambridge from 1967 to 1970. He founded the City of London Sinfonia in 1971, … - James Galway
Sir James Galway (informally known as Jimmy) (born December 8, 1939) is a Northern Ireland-born virtuoso flute player from Belfast, often called "The Man With the Golden Flute". Following in the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Rampal, he became one of the first flute players to establish an international career as a soloist. James Galway studied at the Royal College of Music under John Francis and then at the Guildhall School of Music under Geoffrey Gilbert. - David Zinman
David Zinman (b. 9 July, 1936) is an American conductor and violinist. - John Barbirolli
Sir John Giovanni Battista Barbirolli, CH, was a British conductor and cellist. Barbirolli was particularly associated with the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he led for nearly three decades. He was also music director of the New York Philharmonic and the Houston Symphony Orchestra, and conducted many other orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. - Mariss Jansons
Mariss Jansons (b. January 14, 1943) is a prominent Latvian conductor, the son of conductor Arvid Jansons. His mother, the singer Iraida Jansons, who was Jewish, gave birth to him in hiding in Riga, Latvia, after her father and brother were killed in the Riga ghetto. As a child, he first studied violin with his father. In 1946, his father won second prize in a national competition and was chosen by Yevgeny Mravinsky to be his assistant at the Leningrad Philharmonic. - Daniel Harding
Daniel Harding is a British conductor. He is a protégé of Simon Rattle and of Claudio Abbado. At age 17, Harding assembled a group of musicians to perform <I>Pierrot Lunaire</I> of Arnold Schoenberg, and sent a tape of the performance to Rattle in Birmingham. After listening to this tape, Rattle hired Harding as an assistant to him at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for a year, from 1993-1994. - Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar ("Robi Shôngkor", (born April 7, 1920, in Benares, United Provinces, British India) is an Indian composer best known for his virtuosity on the sitar. A disciple of Allauddin Khan (founder of the Maihar gharana of Indian classical music), Pandit Ravi Shankar is, perhaps, the best-known Indian instrumentalist in the world. He is well known for his pioneering work in bringing the power and appeal of Indian classical music tradition, … - Gil Shaham
Gil Shaham (born February 19, 1971) is an award-winning violinist of Israeli descent. Born in Urbana, Illinois, he moved to Israel at the age of 2 with his parents, both scientists, Jacob Shaham and Meira Diskin. At age 10, he made debuts with the Jerusalem Symphony and Israel Philharmonic orchestras, and was admitted to Juilliard, where he studied with the famed Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. Both he and his sister, the pianist Orli Shaham, attended Columbia University. - Aram Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian was an Armenian composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music. - Barry Wordsworth
Barry Wordsworth (born 20 February 1948, Worcester Park, Surrey, England) is a British conductor. He is currently music director of Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra. In October 2006 he became Conductor Laureate of the BBC Concert Orchestra, having been Principal Conductor since 1989. In 2007, he began his second tenure as Music Director of the Royal Ballet, who are based at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. - Stephen Hough
Stephen Hough (born November 22, 1961) is a British-born classical pianist and composer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005. Hough was born in Heswall (then in Cheshire) on the Wirral Peninsula, and grew up in Hoylake, where he began piano lessons at the age of five. In 1978, he was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. In 1982, he won the Terence Judd Award in England. - Marin Alsop
Marin Alsop's first performance as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on 27 September was recently featured on NBC's Today Show. The program included Adams, Fearful Symmetries and Mahler's Symphony No. 5. Click here to visit the MSNBC site - to view the programme, enter 'Marin Alsop' under Find Film search box. - Josef Krips
Josef Alois Krips (April 8, 1902 - October 13 1974) was an Austrian conductor and violinist. Krips was born in Vienna, Austria, and went on to become a pupil of Eusebius Mandyczewski and Felix Weingartner. In 1921 he became Weingartner's assistant at Vienna Volksoper and chorus master. Afterwards he became conductor of several different orchestras. In 1933 he returned to Vienna as a resident conductor of the Volksoper. - Yan Pascal Tortelier
Yan Pascal Tortelier (born April 19, 1947) is an internationally renowned French conductor and is the son of the late cellist Paul Tortelier. Born in Paris, he has worked and recorded extensively with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester - for whom he was Principal Conductor from 1992 to 2003. He also made an acclaimed recording of French music with the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber which included the cello concertos of Saint-Saens and Honegger for Universal Classics. - Geoffrey Simon
Australian conductor Geoffrey Simon is resident in London and has appeared there with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Chamber Orchestra and English Chamber Orchestra. Internationally, he has appeared with the American, Atlanta, City of Birmingham, Bournemouth, Fort Worth, Milwaukee, St Louis, Sapporo, Shanghai and Tokyo Metropolitan Symphonies, the Israel, Moscow, … - Jaime Laredo
Jaime Laredo (born June 7, 1941 in Cochabamba, Bolivia) is a violinist and conductor. Currently the conductor and Music Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, he began his musical career when he was five years old. In 1948 he came to North America and took lessons from Antonio DeGrass. He also studied with Frank Houser before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, to study under Josef Gingold in 1953. - Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki is a Polish composer and conductor of classical music. - John Scott
John Scott , Organist and Director of Music since 2004, is one of the worlds leading organists and choir trainers. After his initial musical training as a Cathedral chorister in Wakefield, Yorkshire, Mr. Scott immersed himself in organ and choral music, becoming Organ Scholar of St. Johns College, Cambridge. While still a student, he made his Royal Albert Hall debut as the youngest organ soloist to appear in the Proms. - Kenneth Alwyn
Kenneth Alwyn (born 1928, London) is a British orchestra conductor. He is principally known for his performances and recordings of film and ballet music. He is a former principal conductor at the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden. Alwyn's recording career dates to 1958, when he recorded the first stereo version of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" for Decca Records with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Band of the Grenadier Guards. - Oliver Knussen
Oliver Knussen (born June 12, 1952 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British composer and conductor. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra. He studied composition with John Lambert, from 1963-1969 and later received encouragement from Benjamin Britten. He spent several summers studying with Gunther Schuller at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Massachusetts and then in Boston. - John Pritchard
Sir John Michael Pritchard CBE (February 5, 1921 - December 5, 1989) was an British conductor. Pritchard was born in London, England, to a musical family. His father was a violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra. He studied violin, piano, and conducting in Italy. He was known for his interpretations of Mozart operas and for his support of contemporary music. Late in his career, the San Francisco Opera named Pritchard its Music Director, … - Evgeny Svetlanov
Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov (September 6, 1928 - May 3, 2002) was a conductor and composer. He was born in Moscow and studied conducting at the conservatory there. From 1955 he conducted at the Bolshoi Theatre, being appointed principal conductor there in 1962. From 1965 he was principal conductor of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra (now the Russian State Symphony Orchestra). In 1979 he was appointed principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. - Eduardo Mata
Eduardo Mata was a noted Mexican conductor and composer. Mata was born in Mexico City. He studied guitar privately for three years before enrolling in the National Conservatory of Music. From 1960 to 1963 he studied composition under Carlos Chávez. In 1964 he received a Koussevitzky Fellowship to study at Tanglewood. There, he studied conducting with Max Rudolf and Erich Leinsdorf and composition with Gunther Schuller. He composed several works in the 1950s and 1960s, … - Philippe Entremont
Philippe Entremont (b. Rheims, June 7, 1934) is a French pianist and conductor. He has made many recordings during his career, notably one in 1961 of Tchaikovsky's "Piano Concerto No. 1", with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. Philippe Entremont was born to musical parents, for his mother was a "Grand Prix" pianist and his father an operatic conductor. Philippe first received piano lessons from his mother at the age of six. - Jack Brymer
John (Jack) Alexander Brymer OBE (27 January, 1915 - 15 September, 2003), born in South Shields, was a British clarinetist. In 1947 he followed Reginald Kell as principal clarinetist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He was invited to this post, which he held until 1963, by Sir Thomas Beecham, with some encouragement from one of his friends, the horn player Dennis Brain. - Anthony Halstead
Anthony Halstead (born 1945 in Manchester, England) is a leading figure in the period-instruments movement. First known as a virtuoso on the natural horn, he has gradually moved into the role of conductor and has directed the Academy of Ancient Music, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and most notably Hanover Band. Halstead attended Chetham's School and the Royal Manchester College of Music, studying piano at first, as well as horn, organ, and composition. - Gervase de Peyer
Gervase Alan de Peyer is an English clarinetist and conductor. Gervase de Peyer was born in London and studied at Bedales School. From there he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he studied clarinet with Frederick Thurston and piano with Arthur Alexander. Towards the end of World War I, when he was aged 18, he joined the Royal Marines Band Service. - Claus Peter Flor
Claus Peter Flor is a German conductor, born in Leipzig. He is currently principal guest conductor of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, who performed Hector Berlioz's "Te Deum" at the Perth Concert Hall on the 1st and 2nd of December. For short periods, he has previously been principal guest conductor and artistic advisor to the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich and music director of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. - Leon Botstein
Leon Botstein is hailed as a prophetic and innovative voice in American higher education and has been the President of Bard College since 1975. The author of Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture, he has published widely in the fields of music, education, history and culture. President Botstein is also a renowned international conductor who has served as the Music Director and Conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra since 1992. - Osian Ellis
Osian Gwynn Ellis CBE (born February 8, 1928 in Ffynnongroyw, Flintshire) is a Welsh harpist and composer. - İdil Biret
İdil Biret is a Turkish concert pianist, renowned for her outstanding interpretations of the Romantic repertoire. Biret began her lessons at the age of five with Mithat Fenmen, who had studied under Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. When she was seven, the Turkish parliament passed a special law which enabled her to study abroad, studying at the Paris Conservatory in France under the tutelage of Nadia Boulanger. - Rudolf Barshai
Rudolf Borisovich Barshai (born on September 28, 1924) is a Soviet/Russian conductor and viola player. Barshai was born in Stanitsa Lobinskaya, Krasnodar region, Russia. He studied in Moscow Conservatory under Tseitlin and Borisovsky. Barshai performed as a soloist as well as together with Sviatoslav Richter and David Oistrakh, and as a member of a trio with Mstislav Rostropovich and Leonid Kogan. He won numerous Soviet and international competitions. - Günter Wand
Günter Wand (born January 7, 1912 in Elberfeld, Germany; died February 14, 2002 in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was a German orchestra conductor He was also a composer. Wand was born in Elberfeld and studied in Wupertal, Allenstein and Detmold. He studied composition with Philipp Jarnach and piano with Paul Baumgartner, but was largely self-taught as a conductor. - Jerzy Maksymiuk
Jerzy Maksymiuk (born April 9, 1936) is a Polish orchestra conductor of classical music. Jerzy Maksymiuk was born in Grodno, Belarus, and studied violin, piano, conducting and composition at the Warsaw Conservatory. In 1964 he won first prize in the Paderewski Piano Composition. Conducting, however, soon became his principal career and while working at the Warsaw Grand Theatre he formed the highly successful Polish Chamber Orchestra, … - James Depreist
James DePreist, is an American conductor born on November 21, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the permanent conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, director of conducting and orchestral studies at the Juilliard School and Laureate Music Director of the Oregon Symphony. Widely acclaimed as one of America's finest conductors, DePreist has served for more than three decades in multiple roles as Music Director of Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, …
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