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Conductor refers to a musical conductor. In classical music this person would typically conduct an orchestra; this may also be a bandleader of a jazz...
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| x Constantin Silvestri | Person |
Constantin Silvestri (13 May 1913, Bucharest – 23 February 1969, London) was a Romanian conductor and composer.
He was a vibrant conductor who became the principal conductor of the National Radio Orchestra of Romania and later of the Bournemouth...
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| x David Burge | Person |
David Burge (born March 25, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American pianist, conductor and composer. As a performer, he is noted for championing contemporary pieces.
He studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Cherubini Conservatory,...
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Carl Adolph Schuricht (July 3, 1880 – January, 1967) was a German conductor.
Schuricht was born in Danzig (Gdańsk), German Empire; his father's family had been respected organ-builders. His mother, Amanda Wusinowska, a widow soon after her marriage ...
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| x Charles Hallé |
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Sir Charles Hallé (11 April 1819 – 25 October 1895) was a German pianist and conductor, and founder of The Hallé orchestra in 1858.
Hallé was born in Hagen, Westphalia, Germany who after settling in England changed his name from Karl Halle. His...
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| x Thomas-Michael Gribow |
Thomas-Michael Gribow is the conductor of the Akademische Orchestervereinigung in Göttingen, Germany; also assistant conductor of the Opera/Theater House in Chemnitz.
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| x Izhak Graziani | Person |
Izhak "Ziko" Graziani (Hebrew: יצחק גרציאני; August 4, 1924 - July 7, 2003) was born in Bulgaria and studied music and conducting.
In 1948 he moved to Israel where he became the conductor of the IDF Orchestra. He eventually became conductor of the...
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| x Erich Leinsdorf | Person |
Erich Leinsdorf (Erich Landauer) (February 4, 1912 – September 11, 1993) was an Austrian-born American conductor. He performed and recorded with leading orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe, earning a reputation for...
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| x Kurt Masur |
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Kurt Masur (born July 18, 1927) is a German conductor, particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music.
Masur was born in Brieg, Lower Silesia, Germany (now Brzeg in Poland) and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig...
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| x Oliver Knussen | Composer |
Oliver Knussen CBE (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, between 1963 and 1969...
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| x Václav Neumann |
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Václav Neumann (September 29, 1920 – September 2, 1995) was a Czech conductor, violinist and viola player.
Neumann was born in Prague where he studied at the Prague Conservatory, with Josef Micka (violin), and with Pavel Dědeček and Metod Doležil ...
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| x Fritz Reiner |
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Frederick Martin “Fritz” Reiner (December 19, 1888 – November 15, 1963) was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.
Reiner was born in Budapest, Hungary to a secular Jewish family that resided in the Pest area of...
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| x Wolfgang Sawallisch | Person |
Wolfgang Sawallisch (born August 26, 1923) is a German conductor and pianist.
Sawallisch was born in Munich, and began his career at the opera house in Augsburg in 1947.
In 1953 he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, becoming the youngest person ever...
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| x Kurt Eichhorn | Person |
Kurt Peter Eichhorn (August 4, 1908, Munich – June 29, 1994, Murnau) was a German conductor, the son of a painter. He studied music at the conservatory in Würzburg with Hermann Zilcher. His conducting debut was in 1932 as a conductor and choral...
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| x Richard Armstrong | Person |
Sir Richard Armstrong, CBE (born 7 January 1943 in Leicester) is a British conductor. He was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he was an organ scholar.
From 1973 until 1986 Armstrong was...
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| x Leon Botstein |
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Leon Botstein (born 1946 in Switzerland) is an American conductor and the President of Bard College (since 1975). Botstein currently serves as the music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony...
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| x Christof Perick | Person |
Christof Prick (born 1946), who uses the name Christof Perick in English-speaking countries, is a German orchestra conductor. His father was the concertmaster of the Hamburg Philharmonic.
Perick's conducting posts include:
His work in contemporary...
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| x Fred 04 | Musical Artist |
Fred 04 is leader of Brazilian band Mundo Livre S/A. He is the co-author, along with DJ Renato L, of the Mangue Bit manifesto, "Caranguejos Com Cerebros" ("Crabs With Brains"). He has a degree in journalism. He made up his nickname '04' after the...
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| x Christopher Finzi | Person |
Christopher "Kiffer" Finzi (born 1934) is a British orchestral conductor.
He is the son of composer Gerald Finzi. Like his father, the younger Finzi became a pacifist; he refused to do his National Service, and was briefly imprisoned. After his...
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| x Hans Vonk | Musical Artist |
Hans Vonk (June 18, 1942 – August 29, 2004) was a Dutch conductor.
Vonk was born in Amsterdam, the son of Franciscus Cornelis and Wilhemina Vonk. His father was a violinist in the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and died when Vonk was age three. Vonk...
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| x Stephen Cleobury | Person |
Stephen Cleobury (pronounced [ˈkliːbrɪ], KLEE-bri) (born 31 December 1948) is an English organist and conductor. He was organ scholar at St John's College, Cambridge and sub-organist of Westminster Abbey before becoming Master of Music at...
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| x David Cripps | Musical Artist |
David Cripps is an active horn-player and conductor. He was principal horn in the London Symphony Orchestra during the years that they played Star Wars and Superman. He has also performed with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Hallé Orchestra...
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| x Michel Corboz | Person |
Michel Corboz (born February 14, 1934) is a Swiss conductor.
Corboz was born in Marsens, Switzerland and educated in his native canton of Fribourg. He founded the Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne, with which he has recorded and toured extensively. He also...
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| x Richard Bonynge | Person |
Richard Bonynge, CBE (last name pronounced "bonning"), (born 29 September 1930) is an Australian conductor and pianist.
He was born in Sydney and educated at Sydney Boys High School before studying piano at the Royal College of Music in London. He...
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| x Frans Brüggen | Person |
Frans Brüggen (born October 30, 1934, Amsterdam, Holland) is a Dutch conductor and recorder player.
He was born in Amsterdam and studied recorder and flute at the Amsterdam Muzieklyceum. He also studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam. In...
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| x Carl Mikuli |
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Carl Mikuli (20 October 1819 – 21 May 1897) was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher of Armenian ancestry.
Mikuli (a.k.a. Bsdikian) was born in Czerniowce, then part of the Austrian Empire (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine). He is most well...
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| x Artur Rodziński |
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Artur Rodziński (January 1, 1892 - November 27, 1958) was a Polish conductor of opera and symphonic music.
Artur Rodzinski was born in Split, the capital of Dalmatia on January 2, 1892. Soon after, his father, of Polish descent, and a general in the...
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| x Alex Bradford | Person |
Professor Alex Bradford (1927-1978) was a multi-talented gospel composer, singer, arranger and choir director who was a great influence on artists such as Little Richard and Ray Charles and who helped bring about the modern mass choir movement in...
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| x David Hönigsberg | Person |
David Hönigsberg (28 October 1959 - 3 February 2005) was a classical composer, conductor and musicologist.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he lived in Switzerland since 1993.
At the age of 45, he died in Aarau.
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| x John Hopkins | Person |
John Hopkins OBE (born 19 July 1927) is a Yorkshire-born, British conductor and administrator. Hopkins moved to New Zealand in 1957 and to Australia in 1963. He conducted the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 1987 in one of New Zealand's first...
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| x Désiré-Emile Inghelbrecht | Person |
Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (1880-1965) was a French composer and conductor. He corresponded with Claude Debussy from 1911 until his death as a close friend. He was a member of Les Apaches along with Maurice Ravel, Florent Schmitt and others.
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| x Andrew Parrott |
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Andrew Parrott (b. 10 March 1947) is a British conductor, perhaps best known for his pioneering historically informed performances of pre-classical music. He conducts a wide range of repertoire, including contemporary music. He conducted the...
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| x Andy Brick |
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The American Andy Brick is most known for being the conductor of the Symphonic Game Music Concert series in Leipzig, Germany (from 2003 until 2007).
As a student at the University of Michigan, he studied composition under Leslie Bassett who is a...
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| x György Cziffra, Jr. | Person |
György Cziffra, Jr. (died 1981) was a Hungarian conductor. He nearly died as a child during imprisonment with his family when his father, famous pianist Georges Cziffra, was arrested for political reasons after World War II. György and his father...
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| x Hal France | Person |
Hal France is the musical director of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and was formerly the principal director of the Omaha Opera. He lives in Orlando, Florida.
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| x David Campbell | Musical Artist |
David Richard Campbell is a Canadian-born music arranger, composer and conductor.
http://davidmusic.com/
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| x Gustav Leonhardt | Musical Artist |
Gustav Leonhardt (born May 30, 1928, 's-Graveland) is a highly acclaimed Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. Leonhardt has been a leader in the movement to perform music on period instruments. The keyboard instruments...
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| x Alfred Hill | Person |
Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE (16 December 1869 – 30 October 1960) was an Australian composer, conductor and teacher.
He was born in Melbourne, but spent most of his early life in New Zealand. He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1887 and...
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| x John B. Haberlen | Musical Artist |
John B. Haberlen has served as the Director of the Georgia State University School of Music since 1996. He earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in choral conducting with a minor in music literature from the University of Illinois. Dr. Haberlen...
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| x Jean Martinon |
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Jean Martinon (January 10, 1910 – March 1, 1976) was a French conductor and composer.
Martinon was born in Lyon, where he began his education, going on to the Conservatoire de Paris to study under Albert Roussel for composition, under Charles Münch...
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| x Alexander Gibson | Person |
Sir Alexander Gibson, CBE (11 February 1926 – 14 January 1995) was a conductor and opera intendant.
Gibson was born in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and studied music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, as well as...
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| x Grzegorz Fitelberg | Person |
Grzegorz Fitelberg (18 October 1879, Daugavpils, Latgalia – 10 June 1953 in Katowice, Poland) was a Polish conductor, violinist and composer. He was a member of the Młoda Polska group, together with artists such as Karol Szymanowski and Ludomir...
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| x Edward Vesala | Person |
Edward Vesala (February 15, 1945 – December 4, 1999), born Martti Vesala, was a Finnish avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader and drummer.
Born in Mäntyharju, he began as a drummer playing jazz and rock in the 60s, among all in such bands as the...
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| x Carlos Surinach | Person |
Carlos Surinach (Carles Suriñach) (Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 1915 - New Haven, Connecticut, United States, November 12, 1997; pronounced [suɾiˈɲak]) was a Catalan Spanish-born composer and conductor.
He was born in Barcelona, where he held...
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| x Eiji Oue | Person |
Eiji Oue (大植 英次, Ōue Eiji, October 3, 1957 -) is a Japanese conductor.
Oue was born in Hiroshima, and began his conducting studies with Hideo Saito of the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1978, he was invited by Seiji Ozawa to spend the summer...
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| x Anthony Inglis | Person |
Anthony Inglis is a British conductor.
EARLY YEARS
Grammy nominated Anthony Inglis, the artist who has featured more times at London’s Royal Albert Hall than anyone else in the building’s history, was born into an RAF family and can number a great...
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