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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 band or any other similar group. Currently, Conductor is only explicitly connected to Opera Productions by a property. Otherwise, conductors are...
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| x Constantin Silvestri |
Constantin Silvestri (13 May 1913, Bucharest – 23 February 1969, London) was a Romanian conductor and composer.
Silvestri studied the piano as a child. He studied at the Târgu Mureş Conservatory, and later at the Bucharest Conservatory. His teachers...
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| x David Burge |
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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| x Carl Schuricht |
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Carl Adolph Schuricht (3 July 1880 – 7 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 an Anglo-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....
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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 |
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 |
Erich Leinsdorf (born 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...
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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 |
Oliver Knussen CBE (born 12 June 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 |
Wolfgang Sawallisch (born 26 August 1923) is a German conductor and pianist.
Sawallisch was born in Munich, and studied there privately for composition and pianoforte: at the conclusion of the war, in 1946 he continued his studies at the Munich High...
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| x Kurt Eichhorn |
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 |
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 |
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 Christopher Finzi |
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 |
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 |
Stephen Cleobury CBE (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 |
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 |
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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 |
Richard Alan Bonynge, CBE AO (born 29 September 1930) is an Australian conductor and pianist.
Bonynge (pronounced BONNing) 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 |
Frans Brüggen (born October 30, 1934, Amsterdam) is a Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flutist. He is the uncle of recorder soloist and Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet member, Daniël Brüggen.
Brüggen studied recorder and flute at the...
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| x Carl Mikuli |
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Karol Mikuli (Armenian: Կարոլ Միկըլի or Կարոլ Պստիկյան; (20 October 1819 — 21 May 1897) (often seen as Carl Mikuli) was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher of Armenian ancestry.
Mikuli (aka Bsdikian) was born in Czerniowce, then part...
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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 Rodziński was born in Split, the capital of Dalmatia on January 1, 1892. Soon after, his father, of Polish descent, and a general in the...
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| x David Hönigsberg |
David Hönigsberg (28 October 1959 - 3 February 2005) was a South African classical composer, conductor and musicologist.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, he lived in Switzerland since 1993 until his death.
At the age of 45, he died in Aarau.
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| x John Hopkins |
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 |
Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (born, Paris, 17 September 1880, died Paris, 14 February 1965) was a French composer, conductor and writer.
Inghelbrecht was the son of a viola-player, studied at the Paris Conservatoire and made his debut as a conductor in...
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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. |
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 |
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 |
David Richard Campbell (born February 7, 1948) is an American arranger, composer and conductor. He has worked on over 450 gold and platinum albums including Death Magnetic (Metallica), KISS Symphony: Alive IV (KISS) Spirit (Leona Lewis), Bounce (Bon...
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| x Gustav Leonhardt |
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Gustav Leonhardt (born 30 May 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 |
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 |
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 Munch...
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| x Alexander Gibson |
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 |
Grzegorz Fitelberg (18 October 1879, Daugavpils, Latvia – 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, Ludomir Różycki...
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| x Carlos Surinach |
Carlos Surinach (Carles Suriñach) (Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 1915 - New Haven, Connecticut, United States, November 12, 1997; Catalan pronunciation: [suɾiˈɲak]) was a Catalan Spanish-born composer and conductor.
He was born in Barcelona, where he...
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| x Eiji Oue |
Eiji Oue (大植 英次, Ōue Eiji, born October 3, 1957, Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese conductor.
Oue began his conducting studies with Hideo Saito of the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1978, Seiji Ozawa invited him to spend the summer studying at the...
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| x Anthony Inglis |
Anthony Inglis is a British conductor.
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 many past...
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| x Ernesto Acher |
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Ernesto Acher, born on October 9, 1939, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral conductor. He was a member of Les Luthiers between 1971 and 1986, where he worked as songwriter, actor, instrument designer,...
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| x Cesar Concepcion |
Cayetano César Concepción Martínez, (1909 – 1974), was a Puerto Rican musician and composer, who brought the music of his native land to Latin American ballroom dancing, and ballrooms all over the world. He popularised the plena as a Latin song...
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| x Jameson Marvin |
Jameson Neil Marvin (b. 1941, Glendale CA) is an American choral conductor, composer, arranger, and editor who since 1978 has directed the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum (collectively the...
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| x Antonio Pappano |
Antonio Pappano (born 30 December 1959, Epping, England) is a British conductor and pianist of Italian parentage.
Pappano's family has its origins in Castelfranco in Miscano, near Benevento, Italy. When he was 13 years old, he moved with his family...
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| x Tugan Sokhiev |
Tugan Sokhiev (born 1977, Vladikavkaz, Ossetia) is an Ossetian conductor.
Sokhiev began piano studies at age 7. He began to conduct at age 17, inspired by the conductor of the North Ossetia State Philharmonic Orchestra. He subsequently attended the...
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| x Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński |
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Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński (September 21, 1869 – April 18, 1928) was a Polish composer , pianist, conductor, and teacher.
His works include two piano concertos, one in E minor (1892-4) and one in C minor (1898); a violin sonata (1907), and a piano...
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| x Carmen Dragon |
Carmen Dragon (July 28, 1914 – March 28, 1984) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger who in addition to live performances and recording, worked in radio, film, and television.
Dragon was born in Antioch, California. He was very active in...
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| x Raffi Armenian |
Raffi Armenian, CM (born June 4, 1942) is an Armenian-Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher.
Armenian was born in Cairo and had his first music lessons there, moving in 1959 to Vienna to study piano with Bruno Seidlhofer. After...
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| x Dick Shearer |
Dick Shearer (September 21, 1940 – September 20, 1997) was an American jazz trombonist.
He is most famous for his work as lead trombonist and music director for the Stan Kenton Orchestra, since taking over the lead chair from Jim Trimble in the...
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| x Fred Onovwerosuoke |
Fred Onovwerosuoke (￢ﾀﾜFredO￢ﾀﾝ) is a conductor, lecturer and presenter of African choral music. He founded the African Chorus project, and is serving his tenth season as artistic director of the St. Louis African Chorus.
One of the world's most...
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| x Frank Tiberi |
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Frank Tiberi (born December 4, 1928) is the leader of the Woody Herman Orchestra. He was hand-picked by Woody Herman shortly before Herman's death, to lead the band, and he has been doing it since 1987. He plays the alto and tenor saxophone,...
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| x Paul Daniel |
Paul Daniel CBE (born 5 July, 1958, Birmingham, England) is an English conductor. He is particularly noted for performances and recordings of opera and of British music.
As a boy, he sang in the choir of Coventry Cathedral, where he received musical...
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| x Ferenc Sebő |
Ferenc Sebő (b. February 10, 1947, Szekszárd) is a Hungarian folklorist and musician, best known as the bandleader for the Sebő Ensemble, a band that produced many future stars, including Márta Sebestyén (later of Muzsikás). The Sebő Ensemble was...
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| x David Connell |
David H. Connell is an American musician, conductor, and arranger, born c.1960.
He did graduate work at the Yale School of Music and received the D.M.A. degree there in 1991 in organ performance.
He served as Director of Music Ministry at Tabor...
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| x Eugène Goossens, père |
Eugène Goossens (February 25, 1845 – 30 December, 1906) was a Belgian conductor.
He was born in Bruges and studied music as a child at the Church of Notre Dame, Bruges, then at the Bruges Conservatoire. At the age of fourteen, he was admitted to the...
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| x Eugène Goossens, fils |
Eugène Goossens (28 January 1867 – 31 July 1958) was a French conductor and violinist. He was born in Bordeaux, and studied in Bruges and the conservatoire in Brussels. He moved to England with his father, Eugène Goossens, père, in 1873, and after a...
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| x Isaac Karabtchevsky |
Isaac Karabtchevsky (born December 27, 1934 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian conductor of Russian ancestry. He studied music and conducting in Germany, where his teachers included Wolfgang Fortner, Pierre Boulez and Carl Ueter.
Karabtchevsky conducted...
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| x Chubby Jackson |
Greig Stewart 'Chubby' Jackson (October 25, 1918 – October 1, 2003) was an American jazz double-bassist and band leader.
Born in New York City, Jackson began at the age of seventeen as a clarinetist, but quickly changed to bass.
Jackson performed...
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