Performers Index ~ B

Babin, Viktor (13 DEC - )Rus=p-comp

Bachauer, Gina (21 MAY - )(GEE' nah BAHK' how er)Gr=P

Bachir, Munir IRAQ=Oud ( - OCT 1997

Bachmann,
Maria ( - )=V

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Bachmann,
Robert ( - )Ger=Con

Baciu, Ion (yohn BAH choo) ( - )Rumanian=Con

Backhaus,
Wilhelm (VIL helm BAHK house) (26 MAR 1884 -
1969)Ger=Pianist

Bacquier, Gabriel (gah bree EL BAH kee a) ( - )Fr=bar.

BADEN-BADEN RADIO ORCHESTRA (BAH din BAH din) Germany

Badura-Skoda, Paul (bah DOOR' ah SKO' dah)(6 OCT - )Austrian=P

Bailey, N (23 MAR - )SAfr=baritone

Baillie, A (6 JAN - )Eng=Cel

Baillie, Dame Isobel (9 MAR - )Scot=sop

Baker, Gregg (Memphis, - )Am bar, MET 1985

Baker, Dame Janet (21 AUG - )Eng=MezzSop

Baker, Julius (Cleveland, OH 23 SEP 1915 - 6 AUG 2003 )
Principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic for 18 years, died at age 87.

NY Times obituary

Baker, (Tulsa, - )Am=Ten, MET 1986

Balanchine, George (jorg BAH lun cheen) ( - )Soviet=Con-Choreg.

BALANESCU QUARTET (Bah lah NESS koo)

Baldwin, Dalton ( 19 DEC - )Am=P

Balli,
Heinz (hyntz BAH lee) ( - )Ger=Organist

Balogh, Josef (YOH zef BAH lohg) ( - )Hung=

Balter, Alan ( - 21 AUG 1998)Am=Con-Cl Photo

BALTIMORE
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Baltsa, Agnes ( 19 NOV - )Gr=MezzoSop

BAMBERG PHILHARMONIC (BAM berg) Germany

Bamboschek, Giuseppe (joo SEP' pee BAM' boh shek) ( - )

Bamert, Mattius (5 JUL - )Swiss=Cond

Banchini, Chiara ( - )=V

Banowetz,
Joseph (BAN oh wets) ( - )Am=P

Bar, Alwin (AHL vin bair)Ger

Bar,
Olaf (19 DEC - )Ger=Bar

Bar-Niv, Rami

Bar-Niv, Rami ( - )Is=P

Barbieri,
Fedora (fay DOR' ah bar BYAIR' ee) ( Trieste, 4 JUN 1920 - 4 MAR 2003)IT=MezSop

BARBIERI (Italian Mezzo Soprano). One of the finest voices of Italian opera, with triumphs at La Scala in Milan, New York's Metropolitan Opera and London's Covent Garden.
Andante, Obituary

Barbirolli, E (24 JAN - )Eng=Oboe

Barbirolli,
John (bar beh ROW lee) (London, 2 DEC 1899 - London, 29
JUL 1970)ENG=Cond-cellist

Barboteu, Georges (jorg bar boh toh) ( - )Eng=

Barenboim, Daniel (DAHN yel BAH ren boim) ( 15 NOV
- )Argentina-Isr=P=C

Bardon, Pierre (pee yair bar DOHn) ( - )Fr=

Bargel, Wolfgang (VOLF gahng BAR gul) ( - )Ger=

Barlow, Howard ( - )Am=Cond

Barlow, Jeremy ( - )Eng=

Barlow, S ( 30 JUN - )Eng=Cond

Barrenechea-Cabeza two pianos duo Clavel Cabeza Peñalba - Mar G. Barrenechea

Barrueco, Manuel (man WELL bar WAY koh)( - )=G

Barsony, Laszlo (LAH slow BAR shon (eh) ( - )Hung=

Barshai, Rudolf ( 28 SEP - )Rus= Cond-violist

Barstow, Dame Josephine (27 SEP - )Eng=Sop

Barta, Jiri (YEER-zhee BAHR-tah)( 1964 - )Czech cellist

Barto, Tzimon (TSEE mohn BAR toh) ( 2 JAN - )Am=P

Bartoletti, Bruno ( 10 JUN - )It=Cond

Bartoli, Cicilia
(cha CHEE lyah BAHR' toh lee) (4 JUN - )It=mez-sop, MET 1994

Cecilia Bartoli Fan
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Cecilia Bartoli
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Bashir, Munir
(Moo NEAR'
bah SHEER') Iraqui=OUD ( - OCT 1997)

Bashmet,
Yuri (24 JAN - )Rus=Violist

Bastiani, Ettore (AY' tor ay BAH'styah nee nee)

Bastistini, Mattia (MAH' tee ah baht tes TEE' nee)

Bate, J ( 11 NOV - )Eng=O

Batiz, Enrique (Ahn REE' kay BAH' teez) ( 4 MAY - )Mex=C

HREF="http://www.celebsite.com/people/kathleenbattle/index.html">Battle,
Kathleen (13 AUG - )Am=Sop

K. Battle,
Sony Classical Bio

Baudo, Serge (1927 - )Fr=Con

Bauer, Harold (1873 - 1951)AM=Violinist-Pianist

Bauer-Theussl, Franz (BOW'er TOY suhl) ( - )Con

Baumann, Hermann (HEHR mann BOW man) ( - )Ger

Baumann, Jorg (yairg BOW man) ( - )Ger=

BAYERISCHEN RUNDFUNKS SYMPHONIE-ORCHESTER = Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra (by' er EES CHin ROOND funks) BAYERN-Bavaria (BY earn) So
Germany.

HREF="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/isabel_bayrakdarian">Bayrakdarian, Isabel ( - )sop

BAYREUTH MUSIC FESTIVAL (BY' roit) Bavaria, Germany.

Hugh Bean born in (Beckenham, Kent, 22 SEP 1929 - 26 DEC 2003.
See Margaret Campbell's obituary in London Guardian
January 01 2004

Hugh Bean was for more than half a century one of Britain's most distinguished and versatile violinists. From recording with the bands of Geraldo and Billy Cotton, he went on to lead the Philharmonia Orchestra. ~ age 74.

On CD- celebrated interpretation of Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending.
Vaughan Williams: Lark Ascending

BEAUX ARTS TRIO (boh ZAR)

Bechi, Gino (JEE' no BECK' ee)

Becker, Reinhold ( - )Ger=ten

Bedford, S ( 31 JUL - )Eng=C-P

Beecham, Sir
Thomas (BEE chum) (nr Liverpool, 29 APR 1879 - London, 8 MAR 1961 )
Eng=Cond-P

• Sir
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Beer, Lucille (NYC, - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1982

Behle, Renate ( - ) Soprano, Treaist, Austria. MET debut 1999-2000

Behrend, Sigfreid (ZEEG' freed BAIR' andt)

Behrens, Hildegard (Oldenburg, 9 FEB - )Ger=Sop, MET 1976

Belkin, Boris (26 JAN - )Rus=V

BELL, Derek (Irish Celtic Harpist) (Belfast, 21 OCT 1935 - NYC, 15 OCT 2002)

30-year member of the Celtic music band The Chieftains. Obit, NY Times.

Bell, Joshua (JOSH wa bel) (9 DEC -
)Bloomington, IN; Am=V

Bellugi, David
(beh
LOO gee) ( - )Recorder

Benda, Frantisek (FRAHN' teh check BEN' dah)

Bender, Jan Oscar (3 FEB 1909 - 29 DEC 1994) Organist

Benini, Maurizio (Faenza, - )It=Con, MET 1998

Benitez, Maria (Taos, - )Am=Dancer, MET 1997

Bennett, Robert Russell (15 JUN 1894 - NYC, 18 AUG 1981)Ciomp, Arranger,
Cond.

Benson,
Clifford( - )Eng=P

Benyacs, Zoltan (ZOL tan BEN yahch) ( - )Hung=violist

BEOGRAD- Belgrade (BAY oh grahd) Serbian capital

Berberian, Kathy (ber BEH ree an) ( - )Sop. French

Berezovsky,
Boris (beh reh ZOFF skee) ( - )Rus=P

Berezovsky, Nicolai (1900 - 1953 )Rus-Am=V

Berkes, Kalman (KAL mann BER kesh) ( - )Hung=clarinet

Berganza,
Teresa (Vargas) (teh RAY zah Ber GAHN zah) (16 MAR - )Sp=MezSop

Bergeson, Scott (St. Charles, IL; - )Am=Cond, MET 1998

Berglund, Paavo (14 APR - )Fin=Con

Bergonzi, Carlo (bare GON' zee) (13 JUL - )It=Ten

Berman, Bart
Dutch=P

Berman, Lazar (LAH zar BER' man) (Leningrad, 26 FEB 1930 - Florence, IT 6 FEB 2005)Rus=P

Lazar Berman Biography / Obituary

Bernac, P (12 JAN - )Fr=Bar

Bernard, Andre (ahn DRAY ber NAR) ( - )Fr=

Bernstein, Leonard (BERN' styn)AM=C=P=Comp.
HREF="http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/bernstein_bio.htm">

L.Bernstein, Sony Classical, bio

Bernstein, Richard (Brooklyn, - )Am=Bass-Bar, MET 1995

Beroff, Michel (mee SHELL BEH roff) (9 MAY - )Fr=P-Con

Berry, Walter (8 APR 1929 - Vienna, 27 OCT 2000)Austrian=Bass-Bar

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Bertini, Gary (1 MAY - )Isr=Con-Com

Bertocci, Aldo (AHL' doh behr TOT' chee)( - )ten

Besnard, Guy (gee beh NAR) ( - )Fr=

Best, Michael (Durham, 6 FEB - )Am=Ten, MET 1979

Best, Michael ( - )Eng-Con

Betancourt,
Rodolfo ( - )

Beznosiuk, Lisa (LEE sah bez noh SEEOOK) ( - )

Bezrodny, Sergei (sir GAY byez ROD nee) ( - )Rus=

Bezzubenkov, Gennady ( - )Bass, Ulianovsk, Russia. MET debut 1999-2000

BIALYSTOK
(byah WIH stok) State Philharmonic Orchestra of Poland

Bicket, Harry ( - )Eng=Cond.

BIEDERMEIER ENSEMBLE WIEN Germany (BEE der myer ahn SALM bul VEEN)

Biegel,
Jeffrey
( - )Am=P

Biggs, E. Power ( - )Am=Organist

Bigot, Eugene (BEE' goh)

Bilgram, Hedwig (HEAD wig BILL grum) ( - )

Billock, Brent ( -
)Am=ten

Bilson, Malcolm (MAL kum BILL son) (24 OCT - )Am=Harpsic-P

Bingham, Seth (Bloomfield, NJ 16 APR 1882 - NYC, 21 JUN
1972)Am=Organist-Com

Binns,
Malcolm (29 JAN - )Eng=P

Biret, Idil (EE
dil BEE ret) ( - )Hung=P

Birkeland, Oystein (OY stain BEER keh land) ( - )Norwegian=cellist

Bisengaliev, Marat (MAH raht bih sen GAH lef) ( - )Rus=violinist

Bishop-Kovacevich, Stephen (LA, 17 OCT 1940 - )Am=P

HREF="http://www.fastnet.it/servizi/utenti/sciocchetti">
Bjorling,
Jussi (YEW' see BYER' ling) (5 FEB 1911 - 9 SEP 1960)SWE=TEN

Jussi
Bjorling ~ Tenorland

Blake,
Rockwell Robert (10 JAN 1951 -
)Am=ten

Blanchard, Terence ( -
)Am=Trumpet

Blatt, Josef (20 Oct 1906 - Green Valley, AZ 2 Mar 1999)Comp-P-Prof U of Mich.1952-1956

Blech, H (2 MAR - )Eng=Con-V

Blech, Leo (LAY' oh BLEK) ( - )P

Blegen, Judith (BLAY gin) ( - ) =sop

Blomstedt, Herbert (BLOOM stedt) (11 JUL - )Am-Swed=Cond

Bloom, Myron ( - )

Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fanny (1863 - 1927)Am-Pianist

Blume, Norbert ( - )

Blumenthal, Felicja (Feh LEE' sha BLOO' men thal ( -
1997)AM=P

Blythe, Stephanie (Mongaup Valley, NY; - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1995

Boatwright, Helen ( - )Sop-Teacher

Boatwright, Howard (Newport News, VA 16 MAR 1918 - 20 FEB
1999)V-Cond-Com-Teacher

Bocelli, Andrea ( -
)IT=Ten

Boehm, T (9 APR - )Ger=flute crafter

Bogaard, Ed (BOH kard) ( - )Danish=Sax

Bogachov, Vladimir (Moscow, - )Rus-Ten, MET 1994

Bogatcheva, Irina (St.Petersburg, - )Rus=Mez-Sop, MET 1998

Bohm, Karl (be(r)m) (28 AUG - )Austrian=Con

BOISE PHILHARMONIC

Bok, Henri ( ahn REE Bahk) ( - )Fr=clarinet

Bolcom, William (BOWL kum) ( - )Am=P=Comp

Boldachev, Sasha
( - )Rus-harpist

Bolet, Jorge (jhorjh boo LET') ( 15 NOV - 1995)Cuban-Am=P

BOLOGNA (bah LOAN yah) Italy

BOLSHOI BALLET, ORCHESTRA, OPERA, THEATER - (Bahl SHOY) Russian
company and Theater, Founded in Moscow, 1825.

Bonel, Carlos (KAR los boh NELL) ( - )

Bonfiglio,
Robert (bohn
FEE lee oh) ( - )Am=Harmonica

Bonn, James ( - ) =P

Bonney, Barbara (Montclair, NJ; 14 APR - )Am= Soprano, MET 1989

Bonynge, Richard Alan (BAH' ning) (29 SEP 1930 - )AUSTRALIAN=C-P

Booth, Philip (Washington, D.C; - )Am=Bass, MET 1975

Borg, Kim (Helsinki, 7 AUG 1919- 28 APR 2000)Swed-Fin Bass-Baritone, Composer

Borge, Victor (BORE' gah) (3 JAN 1909 - 23 DEC 2000 )Dan=P-humorist

Borgue, Daniel (DAH nyel BORG) ( - )

Borkh, Inge (ING' geh BORK)

Borodina, Olga (bah rah dee NAH)(St. Petersburg, - )Rus=Mez-Sop, MET
1997

Borowska, Joanna (yoh AHN ah boh ROF shak) ( - )

Boru, Brian (boh ROO) ( - )Ir (March named for him)

Boskovsky, Willie (VIL ee bos KOF skah) (16 JUN - )Austrian=C-V

BOSTON POPS of the
Boston Sym

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

HREF="http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artists/bostridge.html">
Bostridge,
Ian ( - )Eng=ten
HREF="http://www.emiclassics.com/artists/biogs/bostb.html">Ian Bostridge,
EMI Classics

Bott, C
(11 SEP - )Eng=Sop

Botstein, Leon ( - )Am-Cond, American Sym Orch; pres, Bart School NY

BOTTESINI DUO

Botvay, Karoly (KAH roy BOHT vee) ( - )Hung=cellist

Boughton, William (BOT' en) ( - )Eng=Con Founded ENGLISH S O (1980)

Boulanger, Nadia (NAH' dee ah boo lahn jhay)FR=P=Teacher=C

Boulez, Pierre (Boo LEZ') (26 MAR - ) Fr=Con-Com

Boult, Adrian (Sir) (AYD ree ahn BOLT) (8 APR - )Eng=Con

Bour, Ernest (bower) ( - )Dan=Con

Bourne, Jean-Luc (zhahn luk BORN) ( - )Fr

BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA(BORN Mith) England

Bourgeois, D (16 OCT - )Eng=Con-Com

Bourgue, Maurice (BOORg) ( - )oboe

Boutros, Kamel (Cairo, - )Egptian=Bar, MET 1997

Bowden, Pamela (25 APR 1925 - 8 APR 2003)Br-contralto

Bowen, York (BOH win) (1884-1961)Eng=P-Com

Bower, David (5 FEB 1969 - )A=G=VOC

Bower, David ( - )Organist

Bower, Kevin (BOY er) ( - )

Bowman, J (6 NOV - )Eng=CounTen

Boyd, Douglas
( - )cond.-oboe

Boyd, Liona (lee OH nah) ( - )Can=G

Boyk, James ( - )Am=P

Brabec, Emanuel (eh MANN oo el BRA bets) ( - )Czech=cellist

Brailowsky, Alexander (bray LOF' skee)

Brain, Dennis (17 MAY - )Eng=Horn-Organ

Brainin, Norbert (12 MAR 1923 - 11 APR 2005)Austrian-Eng=V

Braithwaite, Nicholas (26 AUG - )Eng=Con

Bramma, H (11 NOV - )Eng=Org-Con-Writer

Braun, Victor ( - 6 JAN 2001 )(Canadian baritone) Acclaimed for his portrayal of
Golaud in the premiere run of the MET's production of PELLEAS.
BIO in French

BRATISLAVA (BRA teh slah vah) Slovakian capital.

Brautigam, Ronald ( )P

Bream,
Julian (breem) (15 JUL - )Eng=G-lute

BREDA MUSIC INSTITUTE Breda, (BRAY dah) Holland

Brediclanu, Milai (MEE hi Bray dee CHAH noo) ( - )Roumanian=Con

Brembeck, Christian (BREM bek KREES ty ahn) ( - )Ger=Cond

HREF="http://www.philclas.polygram.nl/class/aa-b/brendel.htm">
Brendel,
Alfred (BREN' dul) (5 JAN - )Austrian=P

Bresciani, Paul ( - )Am=Cellist

Brey, Carter (BRAY) ( - )Am=Cel (NY phil)

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BRNO (BER noh) Czech Republic

Brockway, Howard (Brooklyn, NY, 1870 - 1951)Am-Pianist, opera
transcriber

HREF="http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/bronfman_top.htm">
Bronfman,
Yefim ( - ) Isr=P


Y. Bronfman,
Sony
Classical Biog

Brown, Bruce ( - )

Brown,
Ian ( - )Eng=P

Brown, Iona (Eye OH nah) (Salisbury, 7 JAN 1941 - 5 JUN 2004)Eng=Con-V

Brown, Stephen ( Nottingham, Eng. - )Can

Browning, John (Denver, 22 MAY 1933 - Wisconsin, 26 JAN 2003 )Am=P

Died at age 69. NY Times, obit

HREF="http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artists/brownridge.html">
Brownridge,
Angela ( - )Eng=P

BRT PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA - Belgian Radio and
Television

Brubaker, Robert (Elisabethtown, Pa; - )Am=Ten, MET 1993

BRUGES(Broozh) Belgium

Bruggen, Franz (BROO' gin) (30 OCT 1934 - )Dutch=Recorder-Cond

Brunelle, Philip (1 JUL - )Am=Con

Brunner, Eduard (Broo ner)Dan=

Bruscantini, Sesto ( - 4 MAY 2003)It Bass-Baritone

Andante obituary

~ age 83.

Brusilov, Anshel (AHN shel BROO seh lof) ( - )Am=V (Phila O)

Bruson, Renato (Broo ZOHN) (13 JAN - )It=Bar

Brymer, Jack (BRY mer) ( 27 JAN 1915 - 16 SEP 2003 )Eng=Clar

Bryn-Julson, Phyllis (brin JOOL sun) (5 FEB - )Am=Sop

Buchanan, I (15 MAR - )Scott=Sop

Buchbinder, Rudolph (BOOK' bin ter)( 1 DEC - )Austrian=P

Buechner, Sara Davis ( - )Pianist

BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA

Buketoff, Igor (1915- ) Cond.

Bulow, Hans Von (Hahns fon BOO low) (1830 - 1894 )Ger=Comp-P-Con

Bumbry, Grace (BUM bree) (4 JAN - )Am=Sop

Bunell, Jane (Madison, NJ - ) Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1991

Burchuladze, P (12 FEB - )Georgian=Bass

Burden, William ( - )Am=ten

Burdick, James Owen (BER dick) ( - )

Burchinal, Frederick (Wichita, - )Am=Bar, MET 1974

Burchuladze, Paata (Tbilsi, Georgia; - )Rus=Bass, MET 1989

Burgess, S (9 OCT - )S.Afr=MezSop

Burney, C (7 APR - )Eng=Writer

HREF="http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artists/burnside.html">
Burnside,
Iain ( - )Eng-P

Burrowes, Norma (24 APR - )Eng=Sop

Burrows, Stuart (7 FEB - )Welsh=Ten



Stuart Burrows, Tenorland Site

Busch, Adolph (8 AUG - )Ger=V

Busch, Fritz (Bush) (13 MAR 1890 - 1951)Ger=Con

Busoni,
Ferruccio(1866 - 1924)It=Pianist-Comp.

Buyse, Leone (lay OH nah BUY sul) ( - )Dan=flute

Bybee, Luretta (San Antonio, - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1998

Bychkov, Semion (seem YOHN Bitch KOFF) (30 NOV - )Rus=Con

BYDGOSZCZ (BID gosh) City in Poland

Bylsma, Anner(AH ner BY lz
mah)(17 FEB 1944 - )Dutch=Cel

Byrd, Richard L. ( -
)