- Lorin Maazel
Lolin Varencove Maazel is an American conductor, violinist and composer. At twelve he toured America to conduct major orchestras. He made his violin debut at the age of fifteen, and in 1960, he became the first American to conduct at Bayreuth. He was conductor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1965 to 1971 and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1975. In 1972, Maazel began his tenure as Music Director at the Cleveland 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. - Marek Janowski
Marek Janowski has been Artistic Director of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin since 2002 and in 2005 he was also appointed Musical Director of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in Geneva. - Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Frank Davis CBE (born 2 February 1944) is a British conductor. Davis was born in Ashridge in Hertfordshire and studied at the Royal College of Music, King's College, Cambridge where he was Organ Scholar, and in Rome with Franco Ferrara. The first major post he held was as associate conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a job he took in 1970. In 1975, he took the job of principal conductor with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. - William Steinberg
William Steinberg (August 1, 1899 - May 16, 1978) was a German conductor. Steinberg was born in Cologne, Germany leaving in 1936 for the British Mandate of Palestine, which is now Israel. He decided to leave Germany because the Nazis had removed him from the Frankfurt Opera in 1933 and had limited him to conducting all-Jewish orchestras. Eventually, with founder Bronislaw Huberman, Steinberg became the first conductor of the Palestine Symphony orchestra, … - 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. - Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck (born 1958 in Austria) is an Austrian conductor, the son of Otto and Frieda Honeck, from a family of nine children. As a youth, he studied violin. He attended the Academy of Music in Vienna, and later played the viola. He was later a musician in the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. - 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. - Daniel Meyer
Daniel Meyer was born in Cleveland, Ohio and has been conductor and musical director of several prominent American orchestras. He is a graduate of Denison University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He is a doctoral candidate in music at Boston University. He studied conducting at Boston University, where he won the Orchestral Conducting Honors Award at Boston University. - James Conlon
James Conlon (born 1950) is a prominent American conductor. He is known for both his symphonic and operatic work. Born in Manhattan and raised in Queens, Conlon was one of five children born into a Catholic union household led by an Irish father and a German-Italian mother. Although his parents were not wealthy, they shared a vigorous belief in self-education and passionately supported his intellectual and musical aspirations. - Gilbert Levine
Sir Gilbert Levine KCSG (b. January 22, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American conductor. Levine has conducted numerous orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the Royal Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony, the Bayerischer Staatsorchester, the Dresden Staatskapelle, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. - Jennifer Higdon
Jennifer Higdon (born December 31, 1962) is an American composer of classical music and flutist. Higdon was born in Brooklyn, but spent her first 10 years in Atlanta before moving to Tennessee. With almost no advanced flute training, she studied at Bowling Green State University towards a degree in flute performance. While at Bowling Green she met Robert Spano, … - Cecile Licad
Cecile Licad is a Filipina classical pianist. Licad began her piano studies at the age of three with her mother, Rosario Licad, and later studied with the highly regarded Rosario Picazo. At the age of seven, she made her debut as soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Philippines. Cecile Licad’s repertoire as an orchestral soloist ranges from the classical repertoire of Mozart and Beethoven to the Romantic literature of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, … - Andreas Delfs
Andreas Delfs (b. August 30, 1959) is a German conductor and the Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Delfs was born in Flensburg, Germany. He began studying piano and music theory at age five, and by age twenty was named Music Director of the Hamburg University Orchestra. <sup> </sup> Delfs graduated from Hamburg Conservatory in 1981, and earned his master's at Juilliard School of Music in 1984. - Frederic Archer
Frederic Archer (1838-1901) was an American, composer, conductor and organist, born at Oxford, England. He studied music in London and Leipzig, and held musical positions in England and Scotland until 1880, when he was became organist of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York. Archer was later appointed conductor of the Boston, Massachusetts Oratorio Society, director of Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, … - Julius Baker
Julius Baker (September 23, 1915 - August 8, 2003) was one of the foremost American orchestral flute players. He was well known as a teacher and served as a faculty member at the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, and Carnegie Mellon University. He made many recordings with conductors such as Bruno Walter and Leonard Bernstein, and played second flute with the Cleveland Orchestra from 1937-1941. - Timothy Hutchins
Timothy Hutchins is a Canadian classical flute player. Principal flute of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal since 1978, Timothy Hutchins has received international critical acclaim for his work as a concerto soloist, as a duo recitalist with his wife, pianist Janet Creaser Hutchins, and as a chamber musician. He has appeared extensively as soloist with the OSM: notably with Charles Dutoit. - Sarah Caldwell
Sarah Caldwell was a notable American opera conductor and opera company director. Caldwell was born in Maryville, Missouri, and grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She was a child prodigy and was giving public performances on the violin by the time she was 10 years old. Caldwell graduated from Fayetteville High School at the age of 14. Caldwell graduated from Hendrix College in 1944 and attended the University of Arkansas as well as the New England Conservatory of Music. - David Oei
David Oei (surname pronounced "Wee") is a classical pianist (b. 1950 in Hong Kong). Oei was born in Hong Kong, where he began studying piano at an early age. At the age of nine, after winning numerous 1st prizes at the Hong Kong Music Festival, he was a soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. - Rachel Mellon Walton
Rachel Mellon Walton (1899-2006) was an American philantropist. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the daughter of William Larimer Mellon Sr. (1868-1949), of the banking family, and himself a founder of Gulf Oil. Her mother was Mary "May" Taylor Mellon. She was educated at the Dobbs Ferry School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1922, she married John Walton, Jr. and together they raised four children at their home in the East End of Pittsburgh. - Jeremy Sment
Jeremy Sment is an American composer. Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico on September 12, 1976, Sment studied composition and contrabass at New Mexico State University (B.M.) and Duquesne University (M.M.). His teachers include David Stock, Michael Staehle, Claude Baker, Julio Viera, Narcis Bonet, and Jeff Turner. He has studied composition at L'Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, HVAR, And the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. - Leonard Sharrow
Leonard Sharrow (August 4, 1915-August 9, 2004), was one of the foremost American bassoonists of the 20th Century. Born in New York City, he joined the NBC Symphony Orchestra when it was first organized, eventually becoming principal bassoonist (and recording the Mozart Bassoon Concerto with Arturo Toscanini in 1948); he also served in the U.S. Army in World War II. - Stanley Hasty
D. Stanley Hasty (born 21 February 1920) is professor emeritus of clarinet at the Eastman School of Music. Hasty joined the Eastman faculty and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in 1955. Before coming to Rochester, he served as principal clarinet for the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Orchestra, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He served as professor of clarinet or principal teacher of clarinet at the Cleveland Institute, … - Roberto Díaz
Roberto Díaz was principal viola of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1996 to 2006 and is the president/director of the Curtis Institute of Music, of which he is an alumnus. He is the violist in the Díaz Trio, which also includes his brother Andres Díaz, an internationally renowned cellist, and violinist Andrés Cárdenes, concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. - David Deveau
David Deveau (b. 1953) is an American classical pianist. Born in Concord, Massachusetts, he has appeared as soloist with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras, the San Francisco, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Minnesota, Houston, Miami, Pacific and Portland Symphony Orchestras, and many regional orchestras in the United States and abroad. He made his New York debut in 1982 at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, … - Hugh Keelan
Hugh Keelan was born in Kingston upon Thames, England and has served as the musical director and conductor of prominent American orchestras. He is a pianist and violinist. He is also an arranger of music. Keelan served as conductor of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic for fifteen years, then as conductor of the Erie Philharmonic from 2000 to 2006. He was preceded at Erie by Peter Bay, who served from 1996 to 2000, … - Pepé Romero
Pepe Romero is a world-renowned classical and flamenco guitarist. He is particularly famous for his outstanding technique and colorful musical interpretations on the instrument. As a soloist Pepe Romero has appeared in the United States, Europe, and many countries around the world with the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Houston, Pittsburgh, Boston, San Francisco and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, as well as with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, … - Hank van Sickle
Hank Van Sickle (born December 31, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an electric and upright bassist currently living and working in Los Angeles, California. His father Rodney Van Sickle is a classically trained double bassist who graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and played in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. - Eunice Norton
Eunice Norton (June 30,1908 - December 9, 2005) was an American pianist. Norton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She studied as a child at the University of Minnesota with William Lindsay, who later introduced her to Dame Myra Hess. Hess was so impressed with the 15-year-old Norton's playing that she arranged for Norton to study in England in 1923 with Hess's own mentor, the famed pedagogue Tobias Matthay, with whom Norton would remain in association for 8 years. - William Benswanger
William E. Benswanger was an American businessman who served for almost 15 years as president and chief executive of the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball franchise. Born in New York, New York, Benswanger moved with his family to Pittsburgh when he was five years of age. Upon adulthood, he entered his family's insurance business, … - Chris Carmichael
Chris Carmichael is a musician and arranger born in San Antonio, Texas on July 6, 1962. The son of an Air Force fighter pilot, Chris moved extensively before taking up the violin while living in Hampton, Virginia. After moving to Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1975, he entered into more formal training - studying violin with Western Kentucky University professor Betty Pease (a former student of Ivan Galamian) for eight years. - Ellen Taafee Zwilich
Audience reaction, she says, is vital to refining one's work: "This is the way we learn as composers, by hearing our work in public." Apparently she's an expert "learner." Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians offers this retrospective on her work: "There are not many composers in the modern world who possess the lucky combination of writing music of substance and at the same time exercising an immediate appeal to mixed audiences. - Yan Pascal Tortelier
“Yan Pascal Tortelier and Marek Janowski are both much respected and admired colleagues, and with them and the other (guest) conductors from whom we have major commitments Pittsburgh has a stellar podium array which would be envied anywhere in the world. I await next season with impatience!” Yan Pascal Tortelier comments, “Every time I work with a new orchestra it is always the same question, ‘will the Chemistry work, how will the musicians respond?’ - Amy Staggs
I grew up in the country but came alive in the city. - Erin Dawes
Well, everyone knows I'm a workhorse. Been with Whole Foods and the Pittsburgh Symphony for almost 2 years. The symphony is quite interesting, I have to say. There is always something to be said about the employees in a call room. I've seen them all. I've decided recently that I want to start a business, maybe even a couple. I have a crazy cat named Simba who I adpopted from a friend last year. Thanks MATT! - Tony
About my design work. - John E. McGuirk
John McGuirk was appointed Program Director in September 2006, with primary responsibility for Irvine - Susan Ankney
Really folks, all I've ever wanted in life is to have poisonous barbs on the insides of my ankles... just like the noble male platypus. - Jessica Wolfe
I am me. - Jara
So semester 1 is over of the 3 semesters from hell. I survived though, doing better than I thought! I ended the semester with a 3.67! Yay! Now only two more to go.
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