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Conductor list
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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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| Constantin Silvestri | Person |
Constantin Silvestri (May 13, 1913 – February 23, 1969) was a Romania 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 Symphony Orchestra,...
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| 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 Schuricht |
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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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| Charles Hallé | Person |
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 first...
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| 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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| Izhak Graziani | Person |
Izhak "Ziko" Graziani (; 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 IBA Radio Orchestra ...
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| 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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| Kurt Masur |
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Kurt Masur (b. 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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| 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...
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| Václav Neumann |
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Václav Neumann (September 29, 1920 – September 2, 1995) was a Czech conductor, violin 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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| 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...
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| 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...
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| Kurt Eichhorn | Person |
Kurt Peter Eichhorn (born August 4, 1908, Munich; died 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...
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| 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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| 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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| 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...
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| Fred 04 | Musical Artist |
Fred 04 is leader of Brazil 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 two...
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| 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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| 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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| Stephen Cleobury | Person |
Stephen Cleobury (, KLEE-bri) (b. 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 Westminster Cathedral in 1979.
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| 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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| 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...
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| Richard Bonynge | Person |
Richard Bonynge, CBE (last name pronounced "bonning"), (born September 29, 1930) is an Australia 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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| 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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| 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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| Artur Rodziński |
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Artur Rodziński (January 1, 1892 – November 27, 1958) was a Polish conductor.
Rodziński was born of Polish parents in Spalato, Dalmatia, today's Split, Croatia. He grew up in Lwów, Galicia, now part of Ukraine, where he studied law at the...
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| 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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| 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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| John Hopkins | Person |
John Hopkins OBE (b. 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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| 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 Schmittand others.
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| Andrew Parrott | Person |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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.France, HalFrance, Hal
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| David Campbell | Musical Artist |
David Richard Campbell is a Canadian-born music arranger, composer and conductor.
http://davidmusic.com/
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| 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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| Alfred Hill | Person |
Alfred Francis Hill CMG OBE (16 December 1869 – 30 October 1960) was an Australia 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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| 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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| 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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| Alexander Gibson | Person |
Sir Alexander Gibson, CBE (11 February 1926 – January 14, 1995) was a conductor and opera intendant.
Gibson was born in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, and would later studied music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in...
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| Grzegorz Fitelberg | Person |
Grzegorz Fitelberg (b. 18 October 1879, Daugavpils, Latgalia - d. 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...
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| 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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| Carlos Surinach | Person |
Carlos Surinach (Carles Suriñach) (Barcelona, Spain, March 4, 1915 - New Haven, Connecticut, United States, November 12, 1997), pronounced , was a Catalan Spanish-born composer and conductor.
He was born in Barcelona, where he held conducting posts...
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| Eiji Oue | Person |
is a Japan 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 studying at the Tanglewood Music Center. While there,...
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| Anthony Inglis | Person |
Anthony Inglis is a British conductor.
He has been the Music Supervisor in Her Majesty's Theatre, London, for the last 15 years, and is currently Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra in London. He has conducted orchestras all over the...
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| Ernesto Acher | Musical Artist |
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. He later formed the Banda Elástica group.
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| Eddie DeLange | Person |
Eddie DeLange (15 January, 1904 - 15 July, 1949) was an American bandleader and lyricist. Famous artists who recorded some of DeLange's songs include Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman.
DeLange was born...
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| Cesar Concepcion | Person |
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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| Jameson Marvin | Person |
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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| Antonio Pappano | Person |
Antonio Pappano (born 30 December 1959) is a British conductor and pianist of Italian origin currently serving as music director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
Pappano was born in...
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| Tugan Sokhiev |
Tugan Sokhiev is an Ossetian conductor, trained in Saint Petersburg.
Sokhiev was the music director for Welsh National Opera (WNO) from 2003-2004. It was reported that he was chosen after Vladimir Jurowski had declined an offer from WNO for the...
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| 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 concerto, one in E minor (1892-4) and one in C minor (1898); a violin sonata (1907), and a piano...
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| Carmen Dragon | Person |
Carmen Dragon (July 28, 1914 – March 28,1984) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger.
Dragon was born in Antioch, California. He was very active in pops music conducting and composed scores for several films, including At Gunpoint (1955)...
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| Raffi Armenian | Person |
Raffi Armenian (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 graduating,...
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