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Orchestras which choose not to have principal conductors, such as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, are omitted from this list. Likewise, principal conductors for opera companies are omitted, unless the orchestra of that opera company performs orchestral concerts under ...
Werner Janssen (born Werner Alexander Oscar Janssen; [1] June 1, 1899 – September 19, 1990) was an American composer and conductor of classical music and film scores. He was the first New York-born conductor to lead the New York Philharmonic. For his film work he was nominated for six Academy Awards.
In 2006 debuted in Rome, presenting a Bartok/Enescu/Beethoven program with the Orchestra di Roma e del Lazio. After 1989, Conta repeatedly returned to Romania, including a dual role as a pianist and conductor leading the George Enescu Philharmonic in an all-Beethoven program (3d Symphony and the Fantasy in C minor for piano, chorus and orchestra).
Keith Alan Lockhart (born November 7, 1959) is an American conductor. He is the Conductor of the Boston Pops orchestra, the Chief Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, and the Artistic Director of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina.
From 1985 to 2002, he served as Resident Conductor, leading the orchestra in over 400 concerts and over 600 works at Severance Hall, the annual Blossom Festival, and while on tour. During his tenure as Resident Conductor, Ling led the Orchestra's annual concert in downtown Cleveland, heard by more than a million people since first presented in ...
Sarah Hatsuko Hicks (born 1970 or 1971 (age 53–54)) [1] [2] is a Japanese-born American orchestral conductor. Since 2009, she has been the Principal Conductor of Live at Orchestra Hall for the Minnesota Orchestra, and also serves as Staff Conductor at the Curtis Institute of Music. [3] [4] [5]
Howard Harold Hanson (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) [1] was an American composer, conductor, educator and music theorist.As director for forty years of the Eastman School of Music, he raised its quality and provided opportunities for commissioning and performing American classical music.
In Europe, Inkinen was named the new chief conductor of the Ludwigsburg Schlossfestspiele in March 2014, for the period from 2015 through 2017. [14] In October 2014, the Prague Symphony Orchestra announced the appointment of Inkinen as its next chief conductor, as of September 2015. [15] He had first conducted the Prague Symphony Orchestra in ...