- Riccardo Muti
Riccardo Muti (b. July 28, 1941) is an Italian conductor known for his work as music director of La Scala opera house in Milan, and with the Philadelphia Orchestra. - Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. He was the founder of the New York City Symphony and The American Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the music for and appeared in Disney’s "Fantasia". - Wolfgang Sawallisch
Wolfgang Sawallisch (born August 26, 1923) is a German conductor and pianist. - Emanuel Ax
Emanuel Ax (born June 8, 1949) is a Jewish-American pianist. Born in Lviv, Ukraine (then a constituent republic of the Soviet Union) to parents Joachim and Hellen Ax, both Nazi concentration camp survivors. Emanuel began to study piano at the age of six and Joachim was his first piano teacher. When he has eight the family moved to Warsaw and then two years later, to Winnipeg, Canada where he continued to study music, … - Bruno Walter
Bruno Walter (Bruno Walter Schlesinger) (September 15, 1876 - February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor and composer. He was born in Berlin, but moved to several countries between 1933 and 1939, finally settling in the United States in 1939. He began using Walter as his surname in 1896, and officially upon naturalising to Austria in 1911. - 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. - 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. - Sarah Chang
Sarah Chang (born December 10, 1980) is a Korean American violinist with Korean nationality. Chang was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania of Korean heritage. She asked her parents for a violin at the age of 3 and auditioned for the Juilliard School at 6 playing the Bruch Violin Concerto. She was admitted into the studio of Dorothy DeLay, violin teacher to some of the world's great violinists including Itzhak Perlman, Midori Goto, Gil Shaham, Shlomo Mintz and many others, … - 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. - Lynn Harrell
Lynn Harrell (born January 30, 1944) is an American classical cellist. Harrell was born in New York of musician parents; his father was the distinguished baritone Mack Harrell and his mother, Marjorie Fulton, was a violinist. At the age of eight he decided to learn to play the cello. When Lynn was 12, his family moved to Dallas, Texas, where Lynn studied with Lev Aronson. - 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, … - 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. - 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. - Peter Serkin
Peter Serkin (born July 24, 1947) is a distinguished American pianist. He was born in New York City and is the son of one of the world's leading pianists, Rudolf Serkin, and grandson of the legendary violinist Adolf Busch, whose daughter Irene had married Rudolf Serkin. (Peter was given the middle name Adolf in honor of his grandfather, according to "Rudolf Serkin: A life" by Stephen Lehmann and Marion Farber, Oxford, 2003, p. 96). - Greg Sandow
Greg Sandow is an American music critic and composer. For many years, he was best known as a critic, both of classical music and pop. But more recently he moved journalism to a back burner, revived a composing career that he abandoned in the 1980s, and began writing and speaking about the future of classical music, a subject that has become his specialty. As a critic, Sandow wrote for "The Village Voice" in the 1980s, … - 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. - David Kim
Dr. David Kim (born November 7, 1969) is a physician and orthopedic surgeon who specializes in sports medicine, arthroscopy and shoulder reconstructive surgery. His office is located in Huntington Beach, California at the Huntington Beach Orthopedics and Sports Medicine practice. Dr. Kim received his medical degree at the Stanford University School of Medicine and completed his residency training in orthopaedic surgery at the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Program. - Nathan Milstein
Nathan Mironovich Milstein was a Ukrainian-born violinist who took United States citizenship in 1942 after spending much of his life there. He was born in Odessa. As a child, he was forced by his mother to take violin lessons to keep him out of mischief and studied with Piotr Stolyarsky (also David Oistrakh's teacher). When he was 11, Leopold Auer invited him to become one of his students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. - Gary Graffman
Gary Graffman (born 14 October 1928) is a classical pianist, teacher of piano and music administrator. Graffman was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents. Having started piano at age 3, Graffman entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 7 in 1936 as a piano student of Isabelle Vengerova. After graduating from Curtis in 1946, he made his professional solo debut with conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. - Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger (September 16, 1887 - October 22, 1979) was an influential French composer, conductor, and music professor. An outstanding music educator at the highest level, she taught many of the most important composers and conductors of the 20th century. - Dennis Russell Davies
Dennis Russell Davies is an American conductor and pianist. He was born in Toledo, Ohio and studied piano and conducting at the Juilliard School of Music where he received his doctorate. He is a noted champion of living composers and modern music including Hans Werner Henze, William Bolcom, Lou Harrison, Alan Hovhaness, John Cage, Philip Glass, Giya Kancheli, Arvo Pärt, Virgil Thomson, and Aaron Copland. - 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. - Klaus Tennstedt
Klaus Tennstedt (Merseburg, Germany, June 6, 1926 - January 11, 1998) was a German conductor. He studied violin and piano at the Leipzig Conservatory. He became concertmaster of the orchestra at the Halle Municipal Theatre in 1948. However, a finger injury stopped his career as a violinist, and afterwards he worked as a coach to singers at the same theatre. Tennstedt then directed his talents toward conducting. In 1958, he became music director of the Dresden Opera, … - Susan Graham
Susan Graham (born 1960, Roswell, New Mexico) is an American mezzo-soprano. She was raised in Midland, Texas. She is a graduate of Texas Tech University and of the Manhattan School of Music. She studied the piano for 13 years. She was a winner in the Metropolitan Opera's National Council Auditions, and also a recipient of the Schwabacher Award from the Merola Program of San Francisco Opera. Graham made her international début at Covent Garden in 1994, … - André Watts
André Watts is a classical pianist and Professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University. Born in Nürnberg, Germany, Watts is the son of a Hungarian mother, Maria Alexandra Gusmits, and African-American father, Herman Watts, a U.S. Army non-commissioned officer. After studying music in Philadelphia and appearing with the Philadelphia Orchestra at age nine, … - Leonard Rose
Leonard Rose (July 27, 1918 - November 16, 1984) is considered one of the greatest American cellists of the 20th century. Born in Washington, D.C., Rose took lessons from Walter Grossman, Frank Miller and Felix Salmond and after completing his studies at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music at age 20, he joined Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra, and almost immediately became associate principal. - Alexis Weissenberg
Alexis Weissenberg (born July 26, 1929) is a Bulgarian-born French Jewish pianist. He was born in Sofia and had piano lessons from the age of three with Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to Palestine in 1945, where he studied with Leo Kestenberg, he went to the Juilliard School in 1946 to study with Olga Samaroff. He also consulted Artur Schnabel and Wanda Landowska. - Vladimir Jurowski
Vladimir Jurowski (born April 4 1972 in Moscow, Russia) is a Russian conductor. His father is the conductor Michail Jurowski. He began his musical studies at the Music College of the Moscow Conservatory. In 1990, he moved with his family to Germany, where he completed his education at the High Schools of Music in Dresden and Berlin. He studied conducting with Rolf Reuter and vocal coaching with Semion Skigin. - William Kapell
William Kapell was an American pianist. The critic Harold Schonberg once considered Kapell the most promising American pianist of the post-World War II generation. Unfortunately, Kapell's brilliant career was cut short when he died at the age of thirty-one in an airplane crash. His style was direct, clear, and energetic; his technique impeccable; and his repertoire eclectic and adventurous. Kapell was born in New York City of Russian Jewish descent. - Boris Berezovsky
Boris Berezovsky works regularly as concerto soloist with orchestras including the Concertgebouw, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre de la Monnaie, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Hamburg, Hessischer Rundfunk, New Japan Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and with conductors such as Kurt Masur, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mikhail Pletnev, Antonio Pappano. - Natalia Gutman
Natalia Gutman is a cellist. She began to study cello at the Moscow Music School with R. Saposhnikov. She was later admitted to the Central Conservatoire of Moscow, where she was taught by Rostropovich, amongst others. Distinguished at important international competitions, she has carried out tours around Europe, America and Japan, being invited as a soloist by great conductors and orchestras. - Bright Sheng
Bright Sheng , born in Shanghai, China on 6 December 1955, started piano studies with his mother at the age of four. After graduating from high school during the Cultural Revolution he was one of the first students accepted by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he earned his undergraduate degree in music composition. In 1982, he moved to New York, where he attended Queens College, CUNY, and Columbia University. - Robert Casadesus
Robert Casadesus was a French pianist and composer. He was born in Paris and studied at the Conservatoire there with Louis Diémer, taking a "premier prix" in 1913 and the Prix Diémer in 1920. From 1922 he collaborated with Ravel on a project to create piano rolls of a number of works as well as sharing concert platforms with the composer in France, Spain and England. As a soloist he toured widely and frequently performed with his wife, the pianist Gaby Casadesus, … - Jeffrey Khaner
Jeffrey Khaner is the principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has also served as principal flutist with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Mr. Khaner teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. - 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, … - Gregor Piatigorsky
Gregor Piatigorsky was a Ukrainian cellist well known in his time. Gregor Piatigorsky, or occasionally known as "Grisha," was born in Ekaterinoslav and studied violin and piano with his father as a child. After seeing and hearing the cello, he determined to become a cellist and constructed a play cello with two sticks. He was given a real cello when he was seven. He won a scholarship to the Moscow Conservatory, … - 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. - John Nelson
John Wilton Nelson (born 6 December 1941, San Jose, Costa Rica, of American parents) is an American conductor. Nelson studied at Wheaton College, and later at the Juilliard School of Music with Jean Morel. Nelson was Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra from 1976 to 1987. Nelson made two commercial recordings with the Indianapolis Symphony, of music by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Charles Martin Loeffler, for the New World Records label. - Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos is a Spanish conductor and composer. He studied violin, piano, and composition at the conservatories of Bilbao and Madrid. He graduated "summa cum laude" from the Hochschule für Musik in Munich in conducting and won the Richard Strauss Prize. He has served as music director of the Rundfunkorchester Berlin, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Chief Conductor of the Bilbao Orchestra and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, … - John de Lancie
John de Lancie (July 26, 1921 - May 17, 2002) was an American musician who served as the principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra for many years.
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