-
Christian Thielemann
3,519 listeners
Christian Thielemann was born in Berlin in 1959 and began what Karajan called the classical conductor's “hard but indispensable slog" through…
-
Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now
-
Ernest Ansermet
4,296 listeners
Ernest Alexandre Ansermet (November 11, 1883 – February 20, 1969) was a Swiss conductor.
Ansermet was born in Vevey, Switzerland. Although he was…
-
Antoni Wit
5,011 listeners
Antoni Wit (born 1944, Kraków) is a Polish conductor. He is the present musical director of the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
Wit graduated from… -
Emmanuelle Haïm
2,872 listeners
Emmanuelle Haïm (born in Paris, France, 1962) is a French harpsichordist and conductor. She has a particular interest in early music and…
-
Charles Mackerras
2,531 listeners
Sir Charles Mackerras was born in Schenectady, New York to Alan and Catherine Mackerras, Australians – his father, an electrical engineer, was…
-
Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now
-
Maurice Abravanel
5,370 listeners
Maurice Abravanel (January 6, 1903 – September 22, 1993) was a Swiss-American Jewish conductor of classical music.
Abravanel was born in…
-
Sir Malcolm Sargent
4,308 listeners
Sargent was born in Bath Villas, Ashford in Kent England to a working-class, but musical family. He was brought up in Stamford, Lincolnshire where…
-
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
2,738 listeners
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (born 1975, Montreal) is a French Canadian conductor. He is the son of two professors of education. Nézet-Séguin began to…
-
Günter Wand
4,206 listeners
Günter Wand (January 7, 1912 in Elberfeld, Germany – February 14, 2002 in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was a German orchestra conductor and…
-
Osmo Vänskä
3,272 listeners
Osmo Antero Vänskä (born 28 February 1953, Sääminki, Finland) is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist and composer.
-
Rudolf Kempe
4,484 listeners
Rudolf Kempe (14 June 1910 – 12 May 1976) was a German conductor.
Biography:
Kempe was born in Dresden, where from the age of fourteen he… -
Armin Jordan
7,641 listeners
Armin Jordan (April 9, 1932 – September 20, 2006), was a Swiss conductor known for his interpretations of French music, Mozart and Wagner.
Armin…
-
Dennis Russell Davies
5,550 listeners
Dennis Russell Davies (born 16 April 1944, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.) is an American conductor and pianist. He studied piano and conducting at the Juilliard…
-
Walter Susskind
10,176 listeners
Jan Walter Susskind (1 May 1913 – 25 March 1980) was a Czech-born British conductor, teacher and pianist. He began his career in his native Prague…
-
Jeffrey Tate
6,230 listeners
Sir Jeffrey Philip Tate CBE (28 April 1943 – 2 June 2017) was an English conductor of classical music. Tate was born with spina bifida and had an…
-
Snorri Sigfús Birgisson
7,275 listeners
The Icelandi composer and pianist Snorri Sigfús Birgisson (b. April 29th, 1954) commenced his musical studies with Gunnar Sigurgeirsson and then…
-
Georges Prêtre
4,184 listeners
Georges Prêtre (14 August 1924 – 4 January 2017) was a French orchestral and opera conductor.
He was born in Waziers (Nord), and attended the…
-
John Nelson
4,121 listeners
John Wilton Nelson (born 6 December 1941, San Jose, Costa Rica, of American parents) is an American conductor. Nelson studied at Wheaton College,…
-
Andrea Marcon
3,596 listeners
Italian conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and scholar, Andrea Marcon, is a leading specialist and performer of early music. He studied with Vanni…