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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 Charlie Ventura |
Charlie Ventura (born Charles Venturo; December 2, 1916 – January 17, 1992) was a tenor saxophonist and bandleader.
Ventura was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had his first successes working with Gene Krupa. In 1945 he won the Down Beat...
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| x Cemal Reşit Rey |
Cemal Reşit Rey (October 25, 1904 - October 7, 1985) was a famous Turkish composer, pianist, script writer and conductor.
He was born on October 25, 1904 in Jerusalem, and died on October 7, 1985 in Istanbul.
He was one of the five pioneers of...
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| x Keith Lockhart |
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For the baseball player, see Keith Lockhart (baseball)
Keith Lockhart (born November 7, 1959, Poughkeepsie, New York) is an American orchestral conductor.
Lockhart began his musical studies with piano lessons from Gwen Stevens at age seven. He holds...
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| x Lucien Southard |
Lucien Southard (1827-1881) was an American conductor, who directed concerts at the Peabody Institute following the tenure of James Monroe Deems. Southard's reign in control of the Institute was not entirely positive, a situation which Southard...
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| x Karl Elmendorff |
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Karl Eduard Maria Elmendorff (October 25, 1891 – October 21, 1962) was a German opera conductor.
Born in Düsseldorf, Elmendorff studied music at the Cologne College of Music and Hochschule für Musik Köln from 1913 to 1916 under Fritz Steinbach and...
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| x Ádám Fischer |
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Ádám Fischer (born in Budapest September 9, 1949) is a Hungarian conductor of Jewish family origin. He is the general music director of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, with which he has recorded the complete Haydn symphonies for the Nimbus...
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| x Harold Wheeler |
Harold Wheeler (born June 14, 1943 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger, record producer, and music director. He has received numerous Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for orchestration, and won the...
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| x Fred Ho |
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Fred Ho (Chinese name: 侯维翰; pinyin: Hóu Wéihàn; born Fred Wei-han Houn in Palo Alto, California, August 10, 1957) is an American jazz baritone saxophonist, composer, bandleader, playwright, writer, and social activist.
While he is sometimes...
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| x Jane Glover |
Jane Glover CBE (born 13 May 1949) is a British-born conductor and music scholar.
Glover attended Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. Her father, Robert Finlay Glover MA TD,was headmaster of Monmouth School and it was through this connection...
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| x Jahja Ling |
Jahja Ling (Chinese 林望傑; born 25 October 1951, Jakarta, Indonesia) is an orchestra conductor. He is of Chinese descent and is now an American citizen. He began to play the piano at age 4 and studied at the Yayasan Pendidikan Musik School of Music....
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| x Eduard van Beinum |
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Eduard van Beinum (September 3, 1901 – April 13, 1959, Amsterdam) was a Dutch conductor.
Beinum was born in Arnhem, Netherlands, where he received his first violin and piano lessons at an early age. He joined the Arnhem Orchestra as a violinist in...
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| x 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...
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| x Martin Fischer-Dieskau |
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Martin Fischer-Dieskau (born 1954) is a German conductor, currently Music Director-Designate of the Taipei Symphony Orchestra.
Fischer-Dieskau was born in Berlin to a musical family; his father is the singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Fischer...
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| x John DeMain |
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John DeMain is an American conductor and the current Artistic and Music Director for Opera Pacific.
He served as Music Director and Principal Conductor for the Houston Grand Opera for eighteen years. He is best known for his conducting of new operas...
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| x Tullio Serafin |
Tullio Serafin (1 September 1878 - 2 February 1968) was an Italian conductor.
Tullio Serafin was a leading Italian opera conductor with a long career and a very broad repertoire who revived many 19th century bel canto operas by Bellini, Rossini and...
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| x Leo Borchard |
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Lew Ljewitsch "Leo" Borchard (March 31, 1899 – August 23, 1945) was a Russian conductor and briefly musical director of the Berlin Philharmonic.
He was born in Moscow to German parents, and grew up in Saint Petersburg where he received a solid...
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| x Josef Stránský |
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Josef Stransky (1872 – March 6, 1936) was a Czech conductor and composer.
Born in Bohemia, he worked as a conductor in Prague and Berlin before being selected by the New York Philharmonic to replace Gustav Mahler on Mahler's death in 1911. Some...
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| x Irwin Hoffman |
Irwin Hoffman (born 26 November 1924) is an American conductor, born in New York. He was a protege of Serge Koussevitsky. He conducted the Vancouver Symphony from 1952 to 1964, after which he became Associate Conductor of the Chicago Symphony...
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| x Désiré Defauw |
Désiré Defauw (September 5, 1885, Ghent, Belgium – July 25, 1960, Gary, Indiana, United States) was a Belgian conductor and violinist.
He was professor of conducting at the Brussels Conservatory and was the first conductor of the Orchestre National...
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| x Nikolai Sokoloff |
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Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra |
Nikolai Sokoloff (28 May 1886 – 25 September 1965), was a Russia-American conductor and violinist. He was born in Kiev, and studied music at Yale. From 1916 to 1917 he was musical director of the San Francisco People's Philharmonic Orchestra, where...
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| x Carl Pohlig |
Karl Pohlig (10 February 1864 – 17 June 1928) was a German conductor born in Teplitz. He studied cello and piano in Weimar, and later taught piano there. In 1901 in Stuttgart he became the first conductor to perform the complete version of Bruckner...
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| x Fritz Scheel |
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Johann Friedrich Ludwig “Fritz” Scheel (7 November 1852 – 13 March 1907) was a German conductor born in Fackenburg, Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein. Scheel was the founder and first music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra 1900. He conducted...
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| x Josef Krips |
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Josef Alois Krips (8 April 1902 – 13 October 1974) was an Austrian conductor and violinist.
Krips was born in Vienna, Austria, and went on to become a pupil of Eusebius Mandyczewski and Felix Weingartner. From 1921 to 1924, he served as Weingartner...
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| x Karl Rankl |
Karl Rankl (1 October 1898– 6 September 1968) was a British conductor and composer of Austrian birth.
Rankl studied with Arnold Schoenberg as a private pupil for four years beginning in 1918. His first appointment was as chorus master at the...
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| x Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr. |
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Josef “Pepi” Hellmesberger, Jr. (9 April 1855 – 26 April 1907) was an Austrian composer, violinist and conductor.
Hellmesberger was son of violinist and conductor Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr. (1828-1893), who was his first teacher. Among his family of...
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| x Enrique Jordá |
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Enrique Jordá (March 24, 1911 – March 18, 1996) was a Spanish-American conductor. Born in San Sebastián (Guipúzcoa, Spain), later on he was a naturalized US citizen.
After conducting in Madrid, Cape Town and Antwerp, he was music director of the San...
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| x Alfred Wallenstein |
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Alfred Wallenstein (October 7, 1898 – February 8, 1983) was an American cellist and conductor, born in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 17, he joined the San Francisco Symphony as a cellist. He subsequently played cello with the Los Angeles...
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| x Heinz Bongartz |
Heinz Bongartz (31 July 1894, Krefeld – 5 May 1978, Dresden) was a German conductor and composer. He was the first artistic manager of the Dresdner Philharmonie (Dresden Philharmonic Concert Halls) under the East German regime.
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| x Franz Konwitschny |
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Franz Konwitschny (August 14, 1901, Fulnek, Moravia – July 28, 1962, Belgrade) was a German conductor and violist.
He started his career on the viola, playing in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Wilhelm Furtwängler. In 1925, he moved to Vienna...
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| x Herbert Albert |
Herbert Albert (December 26, 1903 – September 15, 1973) was a German conductor.
Albert was born in Lausick and died in Bad Reichenhall. After studying with Karl Muck as a pianist he later held a succession of music director positions in Baden-Baden,...
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| x Hermann Abendroth |
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Hermann Paul Maximilian Abendroth (19 January 1883 – 29 May 1956) was a German conductor.
Abendroth was born on 19 January 1883, at Frankfurt, Germany, belonging to a family which had already produced other artistic figures of divers disciplines....
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| x Julius Rietz |
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August Wilhelm Julius Rietz (28 December 1812, Berlin – 12 September 1877 , Dresden) was a German composer, conductor and cellist. He was a teacher among whose students were Woldemar Bargiel , Salomon Jadassohn and Arthur Sullivan .
He also edited...
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| x Ernst von Schuch |
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Ernst Edler von Schuch, born Ernst Gottfried Schuch (23 November 1846, Graz – 10 May 1914, Niederlößnitz/Radebeul Dresden) was an Austrian conductor, who became famous through his working collaborations with Richard Strauss at the Dresden Court...
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| x Franz Wüllner |
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Franz Wüllner (28 January 1832 – 7 September 1902) was a German composer and conductor. He led the premieres of Richard Wagner's operas Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, but was much criticized by Wagner himself, who greatly preferred the conductors...
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| x Fritz Busch |
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Fritz Busch (13 March 1890 - 14 September 1951) was a German conductor.
Busch was born in Siegen, Province of Westphalia. He held posts conducting opera at Aachen, Stuttgart and Dresden. In 1933 he was dismissed from his post at Dresden because of...
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| x Semyon Bychkov |
Semyon Mayevich Bychkov (Russian: Семён Маевич Бычков; born November 30, 1952, Leningrad) is a Russian-American conductor.
In Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Bychkov studied at the Glinka Choir School for ten years and later at the Leningrad...
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| x Zdeněk Mácal |
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Zdeněk Mácal (Czech pronunciation: [maːtsal]) (born 8 January 1936, Brno, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech conductor.
Mácal began violin lessons with his father at age four. He later attended the Brno Conservatory and the Janáček Academy of Music, where...
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| x Gerd Albrecht |
Gerd Albrecht (born July 19, 1935, Essen) is a German conductor. He was a first-prize winner at the International Conductors Competition in Besançon at age 22. His first post was as a repetiteur at the Stuttgart State Opera. Later, he became Senior...
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| x Jiří Bělohlávek |
Jiří Bělohlávek (born 24 February 1946) is a Czech conductor. His father was a barrister and judge. In his youth, he studied the cello with Milos Sádlo. Bělohlávek is a graduate of the Prague Conservatory and Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He...
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| x Joseph Keilberth | Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | 1949 | 1968 |
Joseph Keilberth (April 19, 1908 – July 20, 1968) was a German conductor.
He started his career in the State Theatre of his native city, Karlsruhe. In 1940 he became director of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague. Near the end of World War...
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| x Christian Thielemann | Munich Philharmonic Orchestra |
Christian Thielemann (born 1 April 1959, in Berlin) is a German conductor.
Thielemann started his musical career aged 19 as a Korrepetitor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Heinrich Hollreiser and assistant to Herbert von Karajan. He made his US...
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| x Fritz Rieger |
Friedrich Edmund "Fritz" Rieger, (28 June 1910 – 30 September 1978) was a German conductor.
Rieger was born in Oberaltstadt, Karkonosze, Bohemia. From 1931 to 1938 he worked in Prague. In August 1941 he became director of the Bremen opera, and in...
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| x Hans Rosbaud |
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Munich Philharmonic Orchestra |
Hans Rosbaud (July 22, 1895, Graz, Austria – December 29, 1962, Lugano, Switzerland) was an Austrian conductor, particularly associated with the music of the twentieth century. As a youth, he studied music at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am...
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| x Oswald Kabasta |
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Munich Philharmonic Orchestra |
Oswald Kabasta (December 29, 1896 – February 6, 1946) was an Austrian conductor.
Kabasta was born in Mistelbach, Austria and later studied with composer Franz Schmidt. In 1931 he became head of conducting at the Vienna Academy. He also served as...
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| x Hermann Zumpe |
Hermann Zumpe (9 April 1850 in Taubenheim, Saxony – 4 September 1903 in Munich) was a German conductor and composer.
Zumpe was educated at the teachers' Seminary at Bautzen, was a schoolmaster at Weigsdorf in 1870-71, from thence going to Leipzig,...
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| x Emil Paur |
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Emil Paur (July 19, 1855 – June 7, 1932) was an Austrian orchestra conductor. Paur was born in Czernowitz, Austria, now Ukraine, and trained in Vienna before working as a conductor in Kassel, Königsberg and Leipzig. He then emigrated to the United...
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| x Wilhelm Gericke |
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Wilhelm Gericke (18 May 1845 – 27 October 1925) was an Austrian conductor. He as born in Schwanberg Austria and studied in Vienna before directing opera in Linz and Vienna, where he gave the Viennese premiere of Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser. He then...
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| x Max Fiedler |
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Max Fiedler (21 December 1859 – 1 December 1939) was a German conductor and composer. He was born August Max Fiedler in Zittau, Germany and studied piano and conducting in Leipzig and at the Hamburg Conservatory. As a young man he conducted Brahms'...
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| x Ferdinand Löwe |
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Ferdinand Löwe (19 February 1865 – 6 January 1925) was an Austrian conductor.
Löwe was born in Vienna, Austria where along with Munich, Germany his career was primarily centered. From 1896 Löwe conducted the Kaim Orchestra, today's Munich...
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| x Georg Schnéevoigt |
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Georg Schnéevoigt (8 November 1872 – 28 November 1947) was a Finnish conductor and cellist, born in Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland, which is now in Russia.
Schnéevoigt began his career as a cellist performing throughout Europe in the 1890s. He was...
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| x Siegmund von Hausegger |
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Siegmund von Hausegger (16 August 1872 in Graz – 10 October 1948 in Munich) was an Austrian composer and conductor.
Siegfried was the son of Friedrich von Hausegger (1837-1899), a lawyer and writer on music. According to Siegmund's own account,...
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Basil Cameron (August 18, 1884 – June 26, 1975) was an English conductor. He was born in Reading, Berkshire, England, the son of a German immigrant family. His birth name was Basil George Cameron Hindenberg.
He took up the violin at age 8, and...
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| x Alfred Hertz |
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Alfred Hertz (July 15, 1872 – April 17, 1942), a German conductor born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Hertz first came to prominence conducting Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Some of the performances he conducted were experimentally...
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| x Moshe Atzmon |
Moshe Atzmon (b. 30 July 1931) is a Hungarian-born Israeli conductor.
He was born in Budapest, and at the age of thirteen he emigrated with his family to Tel Aviv, Israel. He started his musical career on the horn before going to London for further...
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| x Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt |
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (5 May 1900 Berlin – 28 May 1973, Holm-Holstein, Germany) was a German conductor and composer. He studied music in Heidelberg and Münster. He was also a composition student with Franz Schreker at the Berlin Hochschule für...
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| x Lovro von Matačić |
Lovro von Matačić (14 February 1899, Sušak, Croatia – 4 January 1985, Belgrade, Yugoslavia), also Lovro pl. Matačić, was a Croatian conductor. He was a member of the Vienna Boys Choir and studied in Vienna before holding a variety of conducting...
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| x Howard Griffiths |
Howard Griffiths may refer to:
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| x Daniel Harding |
Daniel Harding (born 31 August 1975 in Oxford) is a British conductor. He is a protégé of Simon Rattle and of Claudio Abbado. Harding studied trumpet at Chetham's School of Music and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra at age 13.. At age 17...
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| x Errol Girdlestone |
Errol Girdlestone (born 1945) is a British music conductor.
He lives in the south of France, and works from there as a freelance conductor. His local base is as Music Director of Syrinx Concerts in Vence, an organisation with a professional...
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| x Frieda Belinfante |
Frieda Belinfante (born May 10, 1904, Amsterdam - died Apr 26, 1995, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was a Dutch cellist, conductor and a member of the Dutch Resistance during World War II.
The daughter of Aron (Ary) Belinfante and Georgine Antoinette Hesse,...
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