MUSIClassical PERFORMERS index

Mary Violet Leontyne Price, American soprano.

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Mary Violet Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an American soprano. Born and raised in the Deep South, she rose to international acclaim in the 1950s and 1960s, and was one of the first African Americans to become a leading artist at the Metropolitan Opera. One critic characterized Price's voice as "vibrant", "soaring" and "a Price beyond pearls", as well as "genuinely buttery, carefully produced but firmly under control", with phrases that "took on a seductive sinuousness." Time magazine called her voice "Rich, supple and shining, it was in its prime capable of effortlessly soaring from a smoky mezzo to the pure soprano gold of a perfectly spun high C.

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Arthur Fiedler (December 17, 1894 – July 10, 1979)[1] was a long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra

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Fiedler was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Emanuel and Johanna Fiedler. His father was a Polish-born violinist who played in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and his mother was a pianist and musician. He grew up in Boston, and attended Boston Latin School until his father retired (in the early 1900s), and they moved to Vienna, Austria, in 1910. The family soon moved again, to Berlin, where from 1911 to 1915 young Fiedler studied violin at the Royal Academy of Music (Hochschule für Musik Berlin) under Willy Hess. Fiedler returned to Boston at the beginning of World War I. In 1915 he joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Karl Muck as a violinist. He also worked as a pianist, organist, and percussionist. Fiedler was appointed the eighteenth conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra in 1930. While the position of conductor of the Boston Pops both prior to and after Fiedler tended to be a phase of a conductor's career, Fiedler made it his life's work, having the position for a half-century.

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James Galway (born 8 December 1939)

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Sir James Galway OBE (born 8 December 1939) is a virtuoso flute player from Belfast, Northern Ireland, nicknamed "The Man With the Golden Flute". Following in the footsteps of Jean-Pierre Rampal, he became one of the first flute players to establish an international career as a soloist. Galway went to London as a teenager to study the flute. He studied at the Royal College of Music under John Francis and then at the Guildhall School of Music under Geoffrey Gilbert. He then studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Gaston Crunelle and Jean-Pierre Rampal and also privately with Marcel Moyse.

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Maria Callas birrthday December 2, 1923

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Maria Callas (Greek: Μαρία Κάλλας) (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique, a wide-ranging voice and great dramatic gifts. An extremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini; further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her remarkable musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina.

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Paganini birthday October 27, 1782

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Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His Caprice No. 24 in A minor, Op. 1, is among the best known of his compositions, and has served as an inspiration for many prominent composers.

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Sir Georg Solti, KBE, ( /ˈdʒɔrdʒ ˈʃɒlti/; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor. He was a major classical recording artist, holding the record for having received the most Grammy Awards, having personally won 31 as a conductor, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In addition to his recordings he is probably best known for leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969-91. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the second half of the 20th century.

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Lang lang plays Liszt

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In celebration of his piano hero s bicentenary, Lang Lang has selected some of the most famous, virtuosic and poetic solo pieces, concluding with a stunning new recording of the Piano Concerto No. 1 - accompanied by the Vienna Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev. Lang Lang has had a special relationship with the composer following his very first encounter with his music at age two when he watched a Tom and Jerry cartoon featuring Liszt s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Yo-Yo Ma birthday October 7

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Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is a French-born American cellist, virtuoso, orchestral composer of Chinese descent, and winner of multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. He is one of the most famous cellists of today.

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Anne-Sophie Mutter

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To celebrate Anne-Sophie Mutter's 35 magnificent years on stage and her brilliant recording career, this extravagant limited edition box set is filled with her complete discography on Deutsche Grammophon plus 2 additional discs of previously unreleased material.

Also included is a 288-page hardcover book featuring essays by those who inspired Anne-Sophie, an exclusive interview with the icon, and over 150 photos chronicling her life in pictures – all housed in a beautifully designed case as colorful as her music.

Leonard Bernstein birthday August 25, 1918 was an American conductor, composer

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Leonard Bernstein ( /ˈbɜrnstaɪn/ US dict: bûrn′·stīn; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. According to The New York Times, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."
His fame derived from his long tenure as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, from his conducting of concerts with most of the world's leading orchestras, and from his music for West Side Story, as well as Candide, Wonderful Town, On the Town and his own Mass.
Bernstein was also the first conductor to give numerous television lectures on classical music, starting in 1954, continuing until his death. In addition, he was a skilled pianist,[3] often conducting while performing piano concertos simultaneously.
As a composer he was prolific, writing symphonies, ballet music, operas, chamber music, pieces for the piano, other orchestral and choral works, and other concert and incidental music, but the tremendous success of West Side Story remained unequaled by his other compositions.

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Glenn Gould birthday September 25

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Glenn Herbert Gould (September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982) was a Canadian pianist who became one of the best-known and most celebrated classical pianists of the 20th century. He was particularly renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach. His playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and capacity to articulate the polyphonic texture of Bach’s music.

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Kathleen Battle birthday August 13

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Kathleen Battle (born August 13, 1948), is an African American operatic soprano known for her agile and light voice and her silvery, pure tone. Battle initially became known for her work within the concert repertoire through performances with major orchestras during the early and mid 1970s. She made her opera debut in 1975. Battle expanded her repertoire into light lyric soprano and lyric coloratura soprano roles during the 1980s and early 1990s. Although she no longer appears in operas, Battle remains active in concert and recital performances.
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Itzhak Perlman born August 31, 1945

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Itzhak Perlman (Hebrew: יצחק פרלמן‎; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist, conductor, and instructor of master classes. He is generally regarded as one of the pre-eminent violinists of the 20th century.

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Zino Francescatti birthday August 9, 1902

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René-Charles "Zino" Francescatti (August 9, 1902 - September 17, 1991) was a French virtuoso violinist.
Zino Francescatti was born in Marseilles, to a musical family. Both parents were violinists. His father, who also played the cello, had studied with Camillo Sivori. Zino studied violin from age three and was quickly recognized as a child prodigy. He began performing at the age of five and made his debut at age 10, playing Beethoven's Violin Concerto.[citation needed]
In 1927 he went to Paris to teach at the École Normale de Musique; he also conducted the Concerts Poulets. He made his first world tour in 1931 and his American debut with John Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic in 1939, playing Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 1. His recording of the concerto is still regarded as one of the best. At the end of World War II in 1945, he pursued an outstanding international career until his retirement in 1976.[citation needed]
A violinist of outstanding technical ability, Francescatti played all of the great concerti. His performances of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3, Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, and others, are highly regarded.
Francescatti made many renowned recordings, including the Beethoven sonatas for violin and piano with Robert Casadesus. He performed on the celebrated "Hart" Stradivarius of 1727. Upon his retirement, he sold the instrument and established the Zino Francescatti Foundation, to assist young violinists, in La Ciotat. In 1987 an international violin competition was organized in his honor in Aix-en-Provence.[citation needed]
He died in La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, aged 89.

Cellist Leonard Rose birthday July 27

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Leonard Rose (July 27, 1918 – November 16, 1984) was an American cellist and pedagogue.
Rose was born in Washington, D.C., his parents were immigrants from Kiev, Ukraine. Rose took lessons from Walter Grossman, Frank Miller and Felix Salmond and after completing his studies at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music at age 20, he joined Arturo Toscanini's NBC Symphony Orchestra, and almost immediately became associate principal. At 21 he was principal cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra and at 26 was the principal of the New York Philharmonic.

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Maria João Pires birthday July 23

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Maria João Pires born in Lisbon, Portugal, July 23, 1944) is a Portuguese pianist. International fame came in 1970, when she won the Beethoven Bicentennial Competition in Brussels. She has since then regularly performed with major orchestras throughout the world, interpreting works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert, Mozart, Brahms, Chopin and many other classical and romantic composers. She appears regularly with major world orchestras in Europe, America, Canada, Israel and Japan.

ISAAC STERN birthday July 21

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Isaac Stern (Ukrainian: Исаак Стерн, Russian: Айзек Стерн; 21 July 1920, Kremenets – 22 September 2001) was a Ukrainian-born violinist. He was renowned for his recordings and for discovering new musical talent.

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Kurt Masur birthday 18 July 1927

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Kurt Masur 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, Saxony. Masur has been married three times. His second wife, with whom he had a daughter, died in 1972 in a car accident in which Masur was severely injured. He and his third wife, Tomoko, have a son, Ken, a classical singer and conductor.

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Pinchas Zukerman birthday July 16, 1948

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Pinchas Zukerman (Hebrew: פנחס צוקרמן‎, born July 16, 1948) is a world-renowned violinist, violist, and conductor. He is considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and his ongoing 45-year career has seen him perform with the world's best-known orchestras and record over 100 works. Zukerman has held the position of Principal Conductor and Music Director of Ottawa's National Arts Centre Orchestra since April 1998, and the position of Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 2009.

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VAN CLIBURN

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Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (born July 12, 1934) is an American pianist who achieved worldwide recognition in 1958, at age 23, he won the first quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War. Van Cliburn was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and began taking piano lessons at the age of three from his mother, Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn. O'Bryan was taught by Arthur Friedheim, a pupil of Franz Liszt. At six years old, Cliburn moved with his family to Kilgore, Texas, and at twelve he won a statewide piano competition which enabled him to debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. He entered the Juilliard School at age 17, and studied under Rosina Lhévinne, who trained him in the tradition of the great Russian romantics. At age 20, Cliburn won the Leventritt Award, and made his Carnegie Hall debut.

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David Zinman

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David Zinman (born New York City, U.S., 9 July 1936) is an American conductor and violinist.
After early violin studies at the Oberlin Conservatory, Zinman studied theory and composition at the University of Minnesota and took up conducting at Tanglewood. He then worked in Maine with Monteux from 1958 to 1962, serving as his assistant from 1961 to 1964.
Zinman held the post of tweede dirigent (second conductor) of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra from 1965 to 1977. He was the principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 1979 to 1982.
In the USA, Zinman was music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra from 1974 to 1985. With the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, he served two years as principal guest conductor, and became the orchestra's music director in 1985. During his Baltimore tenure, Zinman began to incorporate the ideas of the historically informed performance movement into performances of the Beethoven symphonies. Upon the conclusion of his tenure as music director in 1998, he was named the orchestra's conductor laureate. However, in protest at what he saw the Baltimore orchestra's overly conservative programming in the years since his departure, Zinman resigned the title of conductor laureate in 2001. In 1998, Zinman was appointed music director of the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he founded and directed its American Academy of Conducting until his sudden resignation in April 2010.

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Alexander Slobodyanik

2011-06-25T04:51:00.003-05:00

Mr. Slobodyanik was a Ukrainian-born pianist who earned stardom in the former Soviet Union with his virtuosity and emotional interpretations of Romantic composers...

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James Levine

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James Lawrence Levine (pronounced /lɨˈvaɪn/; born June 23, 1943) is an American conductor and pianist. He is currently the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. However, he announced his resignation as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra on March 2, 2011 due to continuing health issues. The resignation is effective September 1, 2011. Levine's first performance conducting the Metropolitan Opera was on June 5, 1971, and as of May 2011 he has conducted 2,512 Met performances. In 1997, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

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Klaus Tennstedt

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( Merseburg , Germany - June 6, 1926 - Kiel , Germany - 11 January 1998 ) was a German orchestra. One of the most prestigious and esteemed conductors of his generation especially appreciated in the Germanic classical and romantic repertoire. Due to ill health he retired in 1994 as conductor laureate of the LPO, died of cancer at his home in Kiel at age 71. Married to Inge Tennstedt. He left an important legacy record, highlighting his versions of works by Beethoven , Wagner , Brahms , Bruckner and integral cycle of symphonies by Gustav Mahler with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Martha Argerich

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Argerich has been married three times. Her first marriage was to composer-conductor Robert Chen, with whom she had a daughter, Lyda Chen, who is a violist. From 1969 to 1973, Argerich was married to conductor Charles Dutoit, with whom she had a daughter, Anna. Argerich continues to record and perform with Dutoit. Her third husband was pianist Stephen Kovacevich, with whom she had a daughter, Stephanie.
In 1990, Argerich was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. After treatment, the cancer went into remission, but there was a reoccurrence in 1995, eventually metastasizing to her lungs and lymph nodes. Following aggressive treatment at the John Wayne Cancer Institute, which included the removal of part of her lung and use of an experimental vaccine, Argerich's cancer went into remission again. In gratitude, Argerich performed a Carnegie Hall recital benefiting the Institute. Once a heavy cigarette smoker, Argerich quit smoking following her treatment. As of 2010, Argerich remains cancer-free.

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Karl Münchinger

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Karl Münchinger (May 29, 1915 – March 13, 1990) was a German conductor of European classical music. He helped to revive the now-ubiquitous Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel, through recording it with his Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra in 1960. (Jean-François Paillard made a rival, and also very popular, recording of the same piece at around the same time.) Münchinger is also noted for restoring baroque traditions to the interpretation of Bach's oeuvre, his greatest musical love: moderate-sized forces, judicious ornamentation, and rhythmic sprightliness, though not period instruments.

Born in Stuttgart, Münchinger studied at the Hochschule für Musik in his home city. At first, he guest-conducted often, supporting himself also with other duties as an organist and church choir director. In 1941, he became principal conductor of the Hanover Symphony, a post he held for the next two years. He held no other conducting position until the end of World War II.

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William Bolcom

2011-05-25T15:36:00.002-05:00

William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973–2008. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.

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BEVERLY SILLS

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(May 25, 1929 – July 2, 2007) Sills was an American operatic soprano whose peak career was between the 1950s and 1970s. In her prime she was the only real rival to Joan Sutherland as the leading bel canto stylist.
Although she sang a repertoire from Handel and Mozart to Puccini, Massenet, Wagner, and Verdi, she was known for her performances in coloratura soprano roles in live opera and recordings. Sills was largely associated with the operas of Donizetti, of which she performed and recorded many roles. Her signature roles include the title role in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, the title role in Massenet's Manon, Marie in Donizetti's La fille du régiment, the three heroines in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and Violetta in Verdi's La traviata.
After retiring from singing in 1980, she became the general manager of the New York City Opera. In 1994, she became the Chairman of Lincoln Center and then, in 2002, of the Metropolitan Opera, stepping down in 2005. Sills lent her celebrity to further her charity work for the prevention and treatment of birth defects.

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CLASSICS Go POPS

2011-05-23T07:27:00.001-05:00

Pop goes the Classics

Listen to instrumental versions of music from Broadway, Hollywood and America's great collection of standards...

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POP goes the classics. Popular music taken from classical music pieces.

"A Lover's Concerto" The Toys song is based on Bach's Minuet from the Anna Magdalena
Notebook. [Ed. note: This Minuet in G is actually
not by J.S. Bach, but by Christian Petzold. People have often assumed
that it's by Bach because it was included in a book of music thought to
have been kept by Bach's wife Anna Magdalena. Petzold (p. 367) and on Clavierbuchlein (p. 112) in the 1999 book
The Oxford Composer Companions J.S. Bach, edited by Malcom Boyd.

"All By Myself" Eric Carmen is based on Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No. 2"

"All This Time" by Sting based on a Cello suite from Bach

"And This is My Beloved" from KISMET by Wright-Forrest from Borodin Quartet No 2

"Annie's Song" based on Tchaikovsky's "Symphony No. 5"
Second Movement

"Asia Minor" based on Edvard Grieg's "Piano Concerto In A Minor"

"The Barbarian" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer based on Bartok's piano piece Allegro Barbaro.

"Be Free My Soul" by Libera in album FREE, based on Finlandia by Sibelius.

"Because" by John Lennon based on Beethoven's Piano Sonata #14, "Moonlight" [Played backwards]

"Bring Him Home" from the musical 'Les Miserables' based on "The Humming Chorus" from Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly'.

"Cans And Brahms" by Yes extracts From Brahms' 4th Symphony in E minor, Third Movement. It was arranged by keyboard player Rick Wakeman

"Catch a Falling Star" based on a theme from Brahm's
"Academic Festival Overture"

"Chariots of Fire" is based on the second movement theme of Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 "Romantic".

"Could It Be Magic" Barry Manilow/Donna Summer is based on Chopin's Prelude in C Minor

"Don't You Know" by Della Reese from Puccini aria. Words & Music by Bobby Worth, 1959, is based on "Musetta's Waltz Song" from Puccini's "

La Boheme".
"E.T." John Williams' "Flying Sequence / Finale" was
inspired by the third movement from Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 "Romantic".

"Everythings Gonna Be Alright" is based on Bach's "Air" from
the "Orchestral Suite No. 3 In D Major"

"Fanfare For the Common Man" by A. Copland was arranged in boogaloo style by Woody Herman and Emerson Lake and Palmer rocked a version.

"Fascination", though not stolen, was written by Maurice Ravel, who gave the rights to the score to his friend Dante Pilade "Fermo" Marchetti (1876-1940) who needed some financial help.

"A Fifth of Beethoven" is an arrangement of Beethoven's "Fifth Symphony"

"Full Moon and Empty Arms" is based on Rachmaninoff's "Piano Concerto No. 2" Frank Sinatra had a recording.

"Goin' Home" is an arrangment based on the "Largo" movement of Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 "From The New World"

"Gymnopedie" of Satie used by Blood, Sweat and Tears and Janet Jackson's Someone to Call My Lover has a hint.

"Hook" by Blues Traveler melodic line is directly based on Pachelbel's "Canon in D."

"Hot Diggity Dog" is based on a theme from Chabrier's "Espana, Rhapsody For Orchestra"

"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" aka [Camp Granada by Allen Sherman] is based on Ponchielli's "Dance Of The Hours"

"I Believe In Father Christmas" by Greg Lake (of Emerson, Lake and Palmer) came from 'Troika' of
Prokofiev's 'Lt. Kije.'

"I Should Be So Lucky" Kylie Minogue inspired by Pachelbel's "Canon" [Cleo Lane also had a pop version of the work on album - Ultimate Canon Pachelbel/Various Artists Catalog #RCA-55307 See album cover below.]

"I Will Never Stop Loving You" on the album "Yesterday and Today"/"Fabulous Fifties...and New Delights" is based on the Cancan from
Jaques Offenbach's opera "Orpheus In The Underworld" - this is stated in the
liner notes to the Good Life Music Vol. 14.

"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" is based on "Fantasie Impromptu In C Sharp Major" by Frederic Chopin

"It's Now or Never" is from 'O Sole Mio'

In an Eighteenth Century Drawing Room" by Raymond Scott Orchestra and others, is based
on Mozart's "Piano Sonata, K. 545"

"Lady Lynda" by The Beach Boys based on J.S. Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring."

"The Lamp is Low" is based on Maurice Ravel's "Pavanne For A Dead Princess"

"Love Me Tender" by Elvis Presley from early American songbook, 'Aura Lee'

"A Lover's Concerto" is based on J.S. Bach's "Minuet In G"

"Lullaby And Good Night" traditional, part of a symphony by Johannes Brahms, this song was first written as an instrumental symphony originally entitled, "Wiegenlied, Opus 49 Number 4."

"Midnight Blue" by Louise Tucker from Beethoven's 'Pathetique sonata'

"Midnight Sleighride" by Eddie Sauter and Bill Finnegan is from
Prokofiev's "Lt. Kije" 'Troika'

"Moon Love" Hit by Glenn Miller Orchestra from Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony

"My Reverie" hit by Larry Clinton Orchestra, is based on Debussy's "Reverie"

"Nature Boy" by Nat King Cole with the same theme as the first several notes of the opening of the second movement of Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A, Op. 81. [Court Case: Eden Ahbez, who wrote “Nature Boy” didn’t have Dvorak in mind, but he was sued over it anyway. He was quoting a Yiddish song that has the same theme].

"Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" by Eric Carmen from Rachmaninoff-Second Symphony.

"Night Of Fear" by The Move, a UK hit in the 60s, was based on "

1812 Overture" by Tchaikovsky.
"Penny Lane" by The Beatles a trumpet fanfare inspired by Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto #2."

"Piano and I" of Alicia Keys weaves a bit of Beethoven's Moonlight sonata.

"Rhapsody In The Rain" by Lou Christie based on Tchaikovsky's "Romeo And Juliet."

"Rivers of Babylon" by Boney M has lyrics that are, verbatim, from scriptures -- "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable unto thee....." and some more as well.

"Roll Over Beethoven" was ELO's cover with
their string section playing the start of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

"Russians" by Sting inspired by Russian composer Sergei Provokiev's Romance Melody from the Lieutenant Kije Suite.

"Safari swings again" is originally named "The jolly peasant" and was penned and composed
by classical-composer Robert Schumann during his lifetime 1810-1856.

"Song of India" is based on a theme from Rimsky-Korsakov's
"Scheherazade"

"Song of Joy" is based on Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' from the finale to his 9th symphony, aka "Choral". It also inspired a Latin hit by Miguel Rios, a spanish rock singer, who arranged the song and it became "El Himno a la Alegria", "Ode to Joy" [ED: "Joy" by Apollo 100 based on Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and not the Beethoven Choral Symphony.]

"Song of Norway", Music by Robert Wright and George Forrest; Book by Milton Lazarus; Lyrics by Robert Wright and George Forrest; show based on Grieg themes.

"Spanish Caravan" by The Doors intro riff was taken from "Asturias," a Classical piece by Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz (1860 - 1909).

"Stranger in Paradise" from KISMET by Wright-Forrest from Borodin's 'Prince Igor' with melodies from from Borodin's "Polovetsian Dances" in the second act finding their way into the musical Kismet.

"Tank" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer used the first movement of Janacek's Sinfonietta.

"This Night" by Billy Joel inspired by Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata

"Tonight We Love" Hit by Freddy Martin Orchestra from Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1.

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" based on Mozart's keyboard variations on “Ah! Vous Dirai-je, Maman,” K. 265

"Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum loosely based on J.S. Bach's
"Orchestral Suite No. 3, Air" (commonly known as "Air On A G String) and Cantata 140 "Sleepers Awake"

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Michael Tilson Thomas and Mahler

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The San Francisco Symphony’s acclaimed TV series, Keeping Score, hosted by world-renowned conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas will air nationally on PBS in late June, exploring the life and music of enigmatic composer,Gustav Mahler.
May 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of Gustav Mahler’s death. To commemorate the day, Thomas salutes Mahler, a major life influence, during the first stop of theSan Francisco Symphony’s European tour, Prague, today in this YouTube video (headphones or speakers may be necessary for best sound quality).
From boyhood, Michael Tilson Thomas was greatly influenced by the work of Mahler and is now one of the world’s most famed Mahler interpreters, often conducting his compositions without any sheet music. Hosting this year’s documentary TV series, Keeping Score: Mahler, was a natural outgrowth of that life-long influence. More details found at KEEPING SCORE.ORG

Clifford Curzon, pianist

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Sir Clifford Michael Curzon, CBE (18 May 1907 – 1 September 1982) was an English pianist. Clifford Michael Siegenberg was born in London to Michael and Constance Mary Siegenberg (née Young). The family soon afterwards changed their name to Curzon....

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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(April 20, 1943) He is a prominent British conductor renowned for his performances of Baroque music on period instruments. Gardiner has made over 250 recordings. He founded both the Monteverdi Choir in 1964 as English Baroque Soloists.

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Yan Pascal Tortelier

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He is an internationally renowned French conductor and violinist and is the son of the late cellist Paul Tortelier. Born in Paris, Tortelier has worked and recorded extensively with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester — for whom he was Principal Conductor from 1992 to 2003. He also made an acclaimed recording of French music with the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber which included the cello concertos of Saint-Saens and Honegger for Universal Classics. He is also currently the Principal Guest Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYOGB).
Tortelier served in the newly-created post of Principal Guest Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from 2005 to 2008. He is currently the Principal Conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP).

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LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI

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Leopold Anthony Stokowski (April 18, 1882 – September 13, 1977) was a British-born, naturalised American orchestral conductor, well known for his free-hand performing style that spurned the traditional baton and for obtaining a characteristically sumptuous sound from many of the great orchestras he conducted.
In America, Stokowski performed with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Air and many others. He was also the founder of the All-American Youth Orchestra, the New York City Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra and The American Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the music for and appeared in Disney's Fantasia along with being portrayed by Bugs Bunny in the 1949 Looney Tunes cartoon Long-Haired Hare. Stokowski, who made his official conducting debut in 1909, appeared in public for the last time in 1975 but continued making recordings until June 1977, a few months before his death at the age of 95.

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NEVILLE MARRINER

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Sir Neville Marriner (born 15 April 1924) is an English conductor and violinist. Marriner was born in Lincoln and studied at the Royal College of Music and the Paris Conservatoire. He played the violin in the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Martin String Quartet and London Symphony Orchestra, playing with the latter two for 13 years. He later formed the Jacobean Ensemble with Thurston Dart before going to Hancock, Maine in the United States to study conducting with Pierre Monteux at his school there. In 1959, he founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra and recorded profusely with them.
Marriner was the first music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, from 1969 to 1978. From 1979 to 1986, he was music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. He was principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1989.
Marriner has recorded for various labels, including Argo, L'Oiseau Lyre, Philips and EMI Classics. His recorded repertoire ranges from the baroque era to 20th century British music, as well as opera. Among his recordings are two CDs of British music for Philips Classics with Julian Lloyd Webber, including acclaimed performances of Benjamin Britten's Cello Symphony and Sir William Walton's Cello Concerto. Marriner also supervised the Mozart selections for the soundtrack of the 1984 film Amadeus.
Marriner was knighted in 1985. He was chairman of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields chamber orchestra until 1992, when he was succeeded by Malcolm Latchem. Marriner holds the title of Life President. He is the father of the clarinettist Andrew Marriner, Principal Clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra.

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Jean Fournet

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The French conductor was born in Rouen 14 April 1913 – died in Weesp 3 November 2008.
Fournet’s father was a flutist who gave him some instruction on the flute and music theory. Fournet was then trained at the Conservatoire de Paris in flute by Gaston Blanquart and Marcel Moyse, and conducting by Philippe Gaubert (himself a flutist). He performed on the flute at age fifteen with the Orchestra of the Théâtre des Arts in Rouen. He first established himself as a conductor in his native country conducting in Rouen 1936-1940, Marseilles 1940-1944, and then as director of the Paris Opéra-Comique 1944-1957. He was also a professor of conducting at the École Normale de Musique de Paris 1944-1962.
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Olga Rudge

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Olga Rudge (13 April 1895, Youngstown, Ohio – 15 March 1996) was an American-born concert violinist, now mainly remembered as the long-time mistress of the poet Ezra Pound, by whom she had a daughter, Mary. A gifted concert violinist of international repute, her considerable talents and reputation were eventually eclipsed by those of her lover, in whose shade she appeared content to remain. In return, Pound was more loyal, not to say faithful, to her than to any of his many other mistresses. He dedicated the final stanza of his epic The Cantos to her, in homage and gratitude for her courageous and loyal support of Pound during his 13 year incarceration in a mental hospital after having been indicted for treasonous activities against the United States and in support of Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime. She also defended Pound against the accusation that he was anti-Semitic. During the last 11 years of Pound's life, Rudge was his devoted companion, secretary, and nurse, as he sank into eccentricity and prolonged silences.

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Lily Pons

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Lily Pons (April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976) was a French-American coloratura soprano. Born as Alice "Lili" Joséphine Pons in Draguignan near Cannes, Pons first studied piano at the Paris Conservatory, winning the First Prize at the age of 15. At the onset of World War I in 1914, she moved with her mother and younger sister Juliette (born 22 December 1902) to Cannes, where she played piano and sang for soldiers at receptions given in support of the French troops and at the famous Hotel Carlton that had been transformed into a hospital, and where her mother, Marie Pons, worked as a volunteer nurse orderly. In 1925, encouraged by soprano Dyna Beumer, she started taking singing lessons from Alberto de Gorostiaga in Paris. She successfully made her operatic debut in the title role of Léo Delibes' Lakmé at Mulhouse in 1928 and went on to sing several coloratura roles in French provincial opera houses.

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Gervase Alan de Peyer

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Gervase de Peyer was born in London and attended Bedales School. He was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he studied clarinet with Frederick Thurston and piano with Arthur Alexander. Towards the end of World War II, when he was aged 18, he joined the Royal Marines Band Service. De Peyer returned to the Royal College of Music after the war and subsequently studied in Paris with Louis Cahuzac. In 1950 he was a founder member of the Melos Ensemble for whom he continued to play until 1974. He conducted their recordings with EMI. Their recordings of chamber music for both woodwinds and strings were reissued in 2011, including the works for larger ensembles which were the reason to found the ensemble, such as Beethoven's Septet and Octet, Schubert's Octet and Ravel's Introduction and Allegro, played with Osian Ellis (harp), Richard Adeney (flute), Emanuel Hurwitz and Ivor McMahon (violin), Cecil Aronowitz (viola) and Terence Weil (cello). From 1956 to 1973 he was principal clarinet of the London Symphony Orchestra. He was a founder member of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York in 1969 and played with them for 20 years. He has conducted the English Chamber Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Melos Sinfonia, he has directed the London Symphony Orchestra Wind Ensemble and is the associate conductor of the Haydn Orchestra. In 1959 he began teaching at the Royal Academy of Music.

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Yefim Bronfman

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Yefim "Fima" Naumovich Bronfman (Russian: Ефим Наумович Бронфман; born April 10, 1958) is a Russian-Israeli pianist. He was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, and emigrated to Israel at the age of 15. He now has US citizenship. He made his international debut in 1975 with Zubin Mehta and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1989 and gave a series of recitals with Isaac Stern in 1991. He won a Grammy award in 1997 for his recording of the three Bartók piano concertos with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Another recording with Salonen, of the concertos of Sergei Rachmaninov, was pirated by the record label Concert Artist and re-issued with the piano part falsely attributed to Joyce Hatto. Bronfman is also devoted to chamber music and has performed with many chamber ensembles and instrumentalists.

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Paul Robeson

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Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an African-American concert singer (bass-baritone), recording artist, athlete and actor who became noted for his political radicalism and activism in the civil rights movement. The son of an escaped slave, Robeson was the first major concert star to popularize the performance of Negro spirituals and was the first black actor of the 20th century to portray Shakespeare's Othello in a production with an all white cast.

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Sir Adrian Cedric Boult

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Sir Adrian Cedric Boult CH (8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was an English conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London for the Royal Opera House and Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company. His first prominent post was conductor of the City of Birmingham Orchestra in 1924. When the British Broadcasting Corporation appointed him director of music in 1930, he established the BBC Symphony Orchestra and became its chief conductor. The orchestra set standards of excellence that were rivalled in Britain only by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), founded two years later.
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ROBERT CASADESUS

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Robert Casadesus (April 7, 1899 in Paris – September 19, 1972 in Paris) was a renowned 20th-century French pianist and composer. He was the most prominent member of a famous musical family, being the nephew of Henri Casadesus and Marius Casadesus, husband of Gaby Casadesus, and father of Jean Casadesus. Wikipedia | Search Amazon.com for Robert Casadesus

André George Previn

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André George Previn KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-born naturalised American pianist, conductor, and composer. He is considered one of the most versatile musicians in the world, and is the winner of four Academy Awards for his film work and ten Grammy Awards for his recordings. In 1968, Previn began his tenure as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), serving in that post until 1979. During his LSO tenure, he and the LSO appeared on the BBC Television programme André Previn's Music Night. From 1976 to 1984, Previn was music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO), and in turn had another television series with the PSO titled Previn and the Pittsburgh. He was also principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1984, he was named music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, effective in 1985. While Previn's tenure with the orchestra was musically satisfactory, other conductors including Kurt Sanderling, Simon Rattle, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, did a better job at selling out concerts.

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RAGNA SCHIRMER

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Born: 1972 - Hildesheim, Germany

The German pianist, Ragna Schirmer, studied from 1991 at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover in the class of Professor Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, and from 1993 with Professor Bernard Ringeissen in Paris. In 1995 she graduated with top marks, and in 1999 she completed her education with a solo concert exam. BIO |
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SIMONE DINNERSTEIN

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Simone Dinnerstein (born September 18, 1972) is an American classical pianist who became celebrated, both critically and commercially, for her self-financed recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, released in 2007.

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Soprano Helen Boatwright

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Born: November 17, 1916 - Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA

The American American soprano and teacher, Helen Boatwright (née Strassburger), grew up in Sheboygan, Wisconsin during the Depression. She began her training with Anna Shram Irving. Later she studied voice with Professor Marion Sims (1892-1980) at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (Ohio), receiving the bachelor degree in music in 1939 and the master's degree in music in 1943.

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Peter Hofman dies at 66

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German tenor Peter Hofmann, who became famous for his performances of Richard Wagner operas, died Tuesday, 29 November 2010. He died at a hospital in Wunsiedel in Bavaria. The mass-circulation newspaper Bild also reported Hofmann's death after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. Hofmann made his name performing at the annual Bayreuth festival celebrating the music of Richard Wagner. He toured stages across the world, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

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JOAN SUTHERLAND dead at 83

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OBIT

László Polgár (January 1, 1947 – September 19, 2010)

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Born in Budapest, Hungary, László Polgár studied with Eva Kutrucz at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, 1967–72, and later privately with Hans Hotter and Yevgeny Nesterenko. He made his debut at the Hungarian State Opera in 1971, as Count Ceprano in Rigoletto.
His international career took off in 1981, when he sang Rodolfo in La sonnambula at the Royal Opera House in London. He became a regular guest at the Vienna State Opera in 1983, at the Munich State Opera and the Opéra de Paris from 1985, he has also appeared in Hamburg, and at the festivals of Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence. From 1992 until 2008 he was a principal solo bass of the Zurich Opera House. He died in Zürich at age 63, September 19, 2010. more Wikipedia Biography

Sir Charles Mackerras

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Sir Charles Mackerras, classical music conductor acknowledged as the leading exponent of Leos Janacek's operas, has died of cancer. He was 84. Mackerras died Wednesday night 14 July 2010 in London

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Cesare Siepi - February 10, 1923 – July 5, 2010

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Cesare Siepi

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The operatic bass fled Fascist Italy and later rose to fame both as a staple of the Metropolitan Opera and one of the most celebrated singers to play the title role in "Don Giovanni".
He died in Atlanta at age 87 on July 5, 2010.

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Grammy-winning pianist Earl Wild, who learned his craft from students of Liszt and Ravel and became one of America's masters of the keyboard, has died at age 94.
Wild died of congestive heart disease Saturday at his home in Palm Springs, Calif.,
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Performers Index ~ Z

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Zabaleta, Nicanor (NEE kah nor zah bah LAY tah) ( - )Sp=G

Zaccaria, Nicola (nee koh LAH zah KAH ree ah)( - )GR=

ZAGREB SOLOISTS -
Zagreb, (SAH greb)
Croatia Founder, Antonio Janigro

Zagrosek, Lothar (tsah GROH sehk) (13 NOV - )Austrian= Cond

Zainermand, Erik ( - ) Cond.

Zajick,
Dolora (Reno, NV - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1988

Zakin, Alexander (ZAY' kin) ( - ) P

Zamfir, Gheorghe (geh OR hay zahm FEER) ( - )Rum. = Panflute

Zamkochian, Berj (behrg zam KOCH yahn) ( - ) = Organist

Zampiere, Guiseppe (joo SEP ee ZAHM pyair ee)

Zander, Benjamin ( - )Am-

Telarc.Com

Zaremba,
Elena (Moscow, - )Rus=Mez-Sop, MET 1998-9

Zedda, Alberto (2 JAN - )It=Con

Zednik, Heinz (Vienna - )Austrian=Ten, MET 1981

Zehetmair, Thomas (THA mis ZAY et My er)(23 NOV - )Austrian=V

Zeitlin, Zvi ( 1921 - )Rus-Am=V instructor

ZELAZOWA WOLA (Poland) (ZEH lah ZOH vah VOH lah) Birthplace of Chopin

Zender, Hans (22 NOV - )Ger=Con-Com

Zeyen, Justus ( - ) P

Zhukov, Igor ( - )=P

Zhuraitis, Algis ( Lithuania, 1928 - Moscow, 25 OCT 1998)Bolshoi Theater
Orch Cond.

Ziegler, Deloris (Decatur, IL - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1990

Zifchak, Maria (Smithtown, NY - )Mezzo-soprano. MET debut 1999-2000

Zilberstein, Lilya (eel yah) (Moscow, 1965 - )Rus=P

Zimerman,
Krystian (KRIS tyan zim er man)(5 DEC 1956 - )POL=P

HREF="http://www.emiclassics.com/artists/biogs/zimb.html">
Zimmermann,
Frank Peter (27 FEB - )=V

Zinman, David (9 JUL - )Am= Cond

Zolt-Nagy, Istvan (EE' st vhan Sholt NAHD(y)

Zori, Carmit ( - )Isr =V

Zsigmondy, Denes (DEH nesh ZIG mohnj) ( - )=V-He attended the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, where he studied with Geza
de Kresz. Further inspiration was received through studies with Carl
Flesch, Vas Prihoda and Zino Francescatti.

Zuber, Eduardo S. ( -
)=Con

Zukerman, Eugenia (you GEEN yah ZOOk' er mahn) ( - )AM=F

Zukerman, G (22 FEB - )Can=Bassoon

Zukerman, Pinchas (PEEN' kahz ZOOk' er mahn)( - )Isr=Con=V=Viola

Zumbro, Nicholas ( - ) =P-Prof, Univ AZ

Zumpe, Johann Christopher (yoh HAHN KRIS toh fer) (1735 -
1800)GER=Pianoforte maker

Zweistra, Ageet (ah KHAYT ZVY struh) ( - )cellist

Zwilich, Joseph (ZWIL ik) ( - )Hung=V

Zylis-Gara
(Landvarov, 23 JAN 1935 - )Pol=Sop

Performers Index ~ Y

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Yakar, Rachel (rah SHEL yah KAR) ( - )

Yamashita, Kazuhito (kah ZOOH toh yah MAHSH tah) ( - )Jpn=G
(brother)

Yamashita, Naoko (NAH oh koh yah MAHSH tah) ( - )Jpn=G (sister)

Yannissis, Yanni (Athens, - )Gr.=Bass, MET 1992

06 APR 2003 YANNOPOULOS, Dino (1919 - 06 APR 2003)Opera Dir

Former principal stage director of the Metropolitan Opera and director of the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. He directed at the National Theater and staged Maria Callas' first major role — Tosca — in 1941 and made his debut at the Met — the youngest stage director ever there, and remained with the company for two decades.

Andante, Obituary

Yarvi (see Jarvi,
Neeme)

Yeend, Frances (yend)( - ) Sop

Yelverton,
William ( - )=G

Yeo, Douglas ( - )Trombone/Boston
SO

Yepes,
Narciso (nar THEE soh YEH pays (Lorca, 14 NOV 1927 - Murcia, MAY 1997 )
Sp = G
OBIT

Yermolyeva, Viktoriya (Kiev, 2 NOV 1978 - )Rus=P

York, Deborah ( - ) = Sop

Yoshida, Ayako( - ) =V

Young, John
Bell ( - )Pianist

catalog

Young, Simone ( - )Australian cond. Photo

Ysaye, Eugene (oh ZHEHN ee ZY eh )( - )Belgian=V-con

Yundi, Li ( Chongquing, 1982 - )China=P The
winner of the year 2000 Chopin competition in Warsaw .

Performers Index ~ X

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Xirelli, Tito ( - )Gr=Baritone

Performers Index ~ W

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Waal, Rian de ( - )P

Waart, Edo de (1 JUN - )Dutch=Con

Wachter, Eberhard (AY ber hart VECH ter)

Wagner, Roger (ROH ger WAG ner)( - )=Choral con

Walcha, Herbert (VAHL shah) (27 OCT - )Ger=Org

Waite, Claudia (San Mateo, - )Am=Sop, MET 1998-9

Walker, Alfred (New Orleans, - ) Am=Bass, MET 1998

Walker, N (24 NOV - )Eng=Bass

Walker, P (12 OCT - )Eng=MezSop

Walker, Sarah (11 MAR - )Eng=MezSop

Wallace, I (10 JUL - )Scot-Bass

Wallace, J (14 APR - )Scot-Trumpet

Wallenstein, Alfred (WALL in styn) ( 1898-1983 )AM=cellist-con

Wallez, Jean-Pierre (zhahn pee air vah LAY) ( - )Fr=com-cond.

Wallfisch, Ernst (ernst VAHL fish)(27 MAY - )Ger-Am Violist

Wallfisch, Raphael (rah fy EL WALL kish) (15 JUN - )Eng=Cel

Walmsley-Clark, P (19 FEB - )Eng=Sop

Walter, Bruno (BROO hoh VAHL ter)(15 SEP - )Ger=Con

Walther, Hans-Jurgen (hahns YER gun VAHL ter) ( - )Con

Wand, Gunther (GOON ter VAHND) (Eberfeld, 7 JAN 1912 - 14 JAN 2002)Ger=Con Photo

Warchal, Bohdan(bohk dahn VAHR khahl) ( - )Con

WARFIELD, William (Baritone Known for 'Porgy,').
Performed theater works and oratorios. He was best known for his role of Porgy in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. He was born in West Helena, Arkansas 22 JAN 1920. He died in Chicago. ~ age 82. NY Times Obituary. Porgy & Bess: High Performance

Warren, Leonard (21 APR
1911 - 4 MAR 1960)
Basso

Warren-Green, Christopher (30 JUL - )Eng=V-Con

Washburn, Nan
( - )=Con

Wasinger, Tom AM=VOC=G

Wasinger, Susan AM=VOC=G

Watkinson, C (19 MAR - )Eng=MezSop

Watson, L (4 DEC - )Eng=Sop

Nathaniel Watson, Baritone

Watts, Andre (20 JUN - )Am=P

Watts, H (7 DEC - )Eng=Contralto

WAVERLY
CONSORT, known for its' performances of works from England's
golden age of music, the true Renaissance period c1585-1623. Composer's
like Holborne, Weelkes and Byrd. Michael Jaffe, Dir.

Webber, Julian Lloyd ( - )Eng=Cel (Lloyd-Webber)

Wegner, John (Heborn, Germany - )Baritone. MET debut 1999-2000

Weingarten, Carl ( 17
JUL - )AM=G-Comp

Wei,
Sun Xiu (shway way) (Liao Ning, - ) Chinese Soprano. MET debut 1999-2000

Weigle, Jorg-Peter (yerg PAY ter VY gul) ( - )Ger=con

Weikl, Bernard (BERN hardt VY kuhl) (29 JUL - )Austrian=Bar

Weil, Bruno ( - )Ger=Cond

HREF="http://rozannamusic.com">Weinberger, Rozanna ( - )violist

Weingartner, Felix (VINE gart ner) ( - )Ger=con

Weir, Gillian (JIl ee in WEE r) ( - )
Gillian (17 JAN - )Australian=Org

Weissenberg,
Alexis (uh LEK es WHY sen berg) (26 JUN - )Bulgarian-Fr=P

Welch, Jennifer (Ahoskie, NC - )Am=Sop. MET 1998-9

Welch, Jonathan (Kankakee, IL - )Am=Ten, MET 1994

Welcha, Helmut (HEL' moot Vool kah)

Welitch, Ljuba (LOO bah VAY lik) ( - )Sop

Weller, Walter (VAHL ter VELL er) (30 NOV - )Austrian=Con-V

Wells, Jeffrey (Baton-Rouge, LA - )Am=Bass-Bar, MET 1988

HREF="http://www.emiclassics.com/artists/biogs/welb.html">
Welser-Most,
Franz (Linz, 16 AUG 1960 - )Austrian=Con

Welsh, M (1 MAR - )Eng=Cel

West, Charles ( - )Am=Cl

West, Stephen (Old Forge, NY - )Am=Bass-Bar, MET 1995

West, Zachary (10 OCT 1948 - ) NYC=G=Mandolin=COMP

Westerberg, Stig (sch teeg VEST' tair bairg) ( - )Ger=con

Westerfield, Richard ( - )Am=Con [See
Harrisburg, PA Sym Orch)

WESTMINSTER (WEST min ster) Cathedral, England)

White, Wendy (Chicago, IL - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1989

White, Willard (Kingston, Jamaica - )Baritone. MET debut 1999-2000

Wicks, Dennis ( 6 OCT 1928 - 11 JUN 2003)Eng-Bass

London Times Obituary

Wigglesworth, Mark (19 JUL - )Eng=Cond

Wilbraham, John (15 APR 1944 - obit 5
APR 1998)Eng=Trumpet

Wild, Earl (26
NOV 1915 - )AM=P

Wilde, D (25 FEB - )Eng=P

Wilkens, Christopher ( - )Am=Con [See San Antonio Sym Orch]

Willcocks, Sir David (30 DEC - )Eng=Con-Org

Williams,
John (24 APR - )Australian=G

John Williams, guitarist Sony
Classical

Williams, John Towner (8 FEB - )Am=P-Con-Com (Boston Pops)

John Williams, Sony Classical
Conductor

Composers
list

Williams, Sioned (SHAW nid WILL yums) (1 JUL - )Welsh=Harp

Wills, A (19 SEP - )Eng=Con-Org-Com

Wilson-Johnson, D (15 Oct - )Eng=Bar

Wilson, Tim (Greeley, CO - )Am=Ten, MET 1998-9

Winbergh, Gosta (Stockholm, - )Swed.=Ten, MET 1983

WINCHESTER (WIN chester) Cathedral

Windgasen, Wolfgang (volf GAHNG vint GAHS SEN)( - )Ger

Windsbacher Knabenchor
Windsbacher Boys Choir

WINDSOR, Lorna sop

Winschermann, Helmutt (HELL moot VIN sher mahnn) ( - )Ger=con

Wittgenstein,
Paul (VIT en shtine) (5 NOV - )Austrian=P

Wixell, Ingvar (ING vahr VIK suhl) ( - )Sw

Wnukowski, Daniel Pianist

Woldike, Mogens (moh gins vol DEE kee) (Copenhagen, 5 JUL 1897 - Copenhagen, 20 OCT 1988)Danish=con
(Vienna State Opera 1955)

Wolff, Caroline ( - ) =Va

Wolff, Hugh (13 MAR - )Am=Con

Wolson, Chon ( - )Jpn=Sop

Wong, Francis ( - )=Bar

Wood, Ali (Brisbane, 1980 - )AUSTRALIAN=Pianist

Wood, Sir Henry (3 MAR - )Eng=Con

Woodward, Roger (20 DEC 1942 - )AUSTRALIAN=Pianist

Wordsworth, Barry (20 FEB - )Eng=Con

WROCLAW(vrawt swaf) In 1741
Frederick II the Great of Prussia changed
its name to Breslau.
POLAND (Breslau)

Wright, Searle (1918 - ) Organist, Binghamton NY-First Cong. Church

Wunderlich,
Fritz (VOON dehr
likh)(aka, Friedrich Karl Otto) (Kusel, 26 SEP 1930 - Heidelberg, 17 SEP
1966; accident)Ger=Ten

Fritz
Wunderlich ~ Tenorland

WURTTEMBERGISCHES KAMMERORCHESTER - (VUR tuhm behrg) (Wurttemberg
Chamber Orchestra, based in Stuttgart, Germany. Today's
'Wittenburg' about 100km south of Berlin is 700km east of
the former Wuerttemberg which now borders France and
Switzerland is is part of today's land Baden-Wuerttemberg
with Stuttgart as its' capital.

Performers Index ~ V

2009-10-11T11:01:00.000-05:00

Vaduva, Leontina (Rosille, Romania - )Soprano. MET debut 1999-2000

Vaillant,
Monsegur( - )Sop-P

Vajda, Gergely (GAR geh lee VY day)
( - )Clarinet

Vajda, Jozsef (YOH zef VY day) ( - )bassoon

Vajnar, Frantisek (FRAHN teh shek VY nar) ( - )Czech=con

Valayre, Sylvie (Paris, FR - )Soprano. MET debut 1999-2000

Valdes, Eduardo (Santurce, - )Puerto-Rico=Ten, MET 1994

Valente, Benita (buh NEE tah vuh LEN tee) ( - )

Van Allen, R (28 MAY - )Eng=Bass

Van Asperen, Bob (bohb vuhn AHS puh run) ( - )harpscd-organist

Photo

Van Beinum, Eduard (vuhn BY num)( - )= Con

Van Dam, Jose (25 AUG - )Belgian=Bass-Bar

Van Der Leist (vuhn der LYST) ( - )

Van Der Zwart, Teunis (TOH nihs vuhn der ZVART)( - )

Van Doeselaar, Leo (LAY oh vuhn DOO seh lahr) ( - )

van Keulen, Isabelle (fahn KOO lin) (16 DEC - )
Dutch-V

Van Oortmerssen, Jacques (zhak vuhn ORT mer sen)( - )

Van Remoortel, Edouard (ed wahr vahn ray mor TEL)

Van Ruth, Franz (frahns vuhn ROOT) ( - )

Van Stralen, Esther (vuhn STRAH lin) ( - )violist

Van Waas, Guy (khee vuhn VAHS) ( - )

VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

VANCOUVER (CBC) ORCHESTRA

Vandernoot, Andre (ahn DRAY vuhn der NOTE) ( - )=Con

Vane, Kyra ( -
)Russian-English=Sop

Vaness, Carol (San Diego, 27 JUL 1952 - )Am=Sop, MET 1984

HREF="http://www.emiclassics.com/artists/biogs/vmae.html">
Vanessa-Mae
( - )=V

Links to
other
VM sites

Vanska, Osmo (OHS moh VAHN skah) ( - )con

Varady, Julia (1 SEP 1941?- )Roumanian=Sop

Varcoe, S (19 MAY - )Eng-Bar

Varga, Laszlo (LAHS loh VAR gah) ( - )cellist

Vargas, Ramon (Mexico City, - )Mexico=Ten, MET 1994

Varjon, Denes (DEH nesh VAHR yohn) ( - )

Varnay, Astrid (VAHR ny) (25 APR 1918 - )=Sop

...order this book here.

Varviso, Silvio (26 FEB 1924 - )Sw-Cond.

Vasary, Tamas (TAH mahs VAH sahr ee)(11 AUG 1973 - )Hung-Swiss=P-Con

Vasquez, Hector (Los Angeles, - )Am=Bar, MET 1995

Vayne, Kyra (Knopmuss) (Petrograd, 1916 - England, 12 JAN 2001)Rus=Sop

~ more

Vegh,
Sandor (SHAN'dor VAYg) (17 MAY 1912 - 4 JAN 1997)Hung=V-Con

Velasquez, Miguel A. ( - )SP=Bar

Venezia e Napoli (vee NETS ee ah aye NAH poh lee)

Vengerov, Maxim (20 AUG - )Rus=V

Yeo, Douglas ( - )Trombone/Boston
SO

Verbruggen,
Marion ( - )

VERDEHR TRIO (Ver DAIR)

Verebics, Ibolya (EE boy ah VEH reh bits) ( - )Hung=Sop

Vermillion, Iris ( - )Sop

Vernon, Richard (Memphis, - )Am=Bass, MET 1981

Veronezh (Vuh-ROH-n(y)esh) Trio

Verrett, Shirley (31 MAY - )Am=MezSoprano

VERSAILLES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (vir SY)Fr

Versalle, Richard ( - 1996, on stage at MET)=Ten

Verschoor, Matthijs ( - )piano

Veto, Tamas (VEH toh) ( - )con

Veyron-Lacroix, Robert (roh BAIR vay rohn la krwah) ( - )Fr

Viagy, Dennis (vyahj) ( - )

Viardo, Vladimir ( - ) = P

Vickers,Jon (29 OCT - )Can=Ten

Vignoles, Roger (12 JUL - )Eng=P

VILNIUS PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY (VIL' nee us) Lithuania. Orchestra

Villarroel, Veronica (Santiago, - )Chile=Sop, MET 1991

Vines, Riccardo (ree KAR doh VEEN yes) ( - )Sp=P

Viotti, Marcello (Vallorbe, SW - )Conductor. MET debut 1999-2000

Virumbrales, Luis Lozano (loo EES loh SAH noh vee room BRAH lays) ( - )Sp=cond

Vishnevskaya, Galina (gah LEE nah vish NYEF ski ah) (25 OCT -
)Rus=Sop (m. M.Rostropovich, 1955)

Vladar, Stefan (SHTEF an VLAH dar) ( - )Czech=

Vlasova,
Natalia ( - )Rus-sop

Voigt, Deborah (Chicago, - )Am=Sop, MET 1991

Voight Arts Info

Vogt,
Lars (5 SEP - )Ger=P

Volk, Carl ( - )=G

Volkov, Oleg ( - )=P

Volavy, Marguerite (1886 - 1951)Pol-Am=P

Vollenweider. Andreas ( - )

Volodos, Arcadi (1972 - )Rus =P

Von Karajan, Herbert (fon KAR' ah yon)( - )Ger=con

Vonk,
Hans (Fahnk) (Amsterdam, 18 JUN 1941 - Amsterdam, 29 AUG 2004)Dutch=Con Saint Louis S O / Obituary.

Von Matacic, Lovro (LOH vroh von MAH tah chick)

Von Otter, Anne Sophie (Stockholm, 9 MAY - )Swed=Mez-Sop, MET 1988

Von Stade, Frederika (freh deh REE kah vahn STAH duh) aka 'Flika' (1 JUN - )Ger-Am=MezSop

Vosburgh, George ( - )Tr

Votapek,
Ralph (VOH' tah pek) (
- ) =P

Vote, Franz (Los Angeles, -)Am=Con, MET 1988

Performers Index ~ U

2009-10-11T10:59:00.000-05:00

Uchida, Mitsuko (MEETS you koh oo CHEE dah) (20 DEC - )Japn=P

Udagawa,
Yoichi ( - )=Con

Uecker, Korliss (Hettinger, ND - )Am=Sop, MET 1991

Ughi, Ugo (OO toh OO gee)(22 JAN - )It=V

Uhl, Fritz (ool) (Vienna, - 2 APR 1928)Austria=Ten

Uhlemann, Mark (Wilmette, IL - )Am=Bass-Bar, MET 1998-9

Uittenbosch, Anneke (AH nah kah EYE ten bohz) ( - )

Ulloa, Cesar ( - ) ten

Ulrich, Mel (Albonito, PR - )Baritone. MET debut 1999-2000

Ulsamer, Josef (YOH' sef OOL' zah mair)Violist

Upshaw, Dawn (17 JUL - )Am=Sop
Photo

Urbanova, Eva (Plzen, - )Czech=Sop, MET 1997

Uria-Monzon,
Beatrice (Agen, - )French=Mez-Sop, MET 1998-99

UTAH
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Salt Lake
City - Keith
Lockhart, cond (1998)

Utkin, Alexei (ah lek SAY OOT kin)Rus=oboe

Performers Index ~ T

2009-10-11T10:57:00.000-05:00

't Uitnement Kabinet (out NAY meant kah bee NET) Dutch Ensemble

Tabateau, Marcel (tah bah TOH)

Tacchino, Gabriel (Gah BREE el Tah KEE noh) ( - )=V

Tachezi, Herbert (HER bert tah KAY tsee)

Taddei, Giuseppe (joo SEP ee Tah DAY ee)

TAFELMUSIK (TAH fel moo ZEEK)
ENSEMBLE

Canada's
premiere period instrument orchestra

Tagliabue, Carlo (tah lyah BOO ay)

Tagliavini, Ferruccio (fair ROO chyo tah lyah VEE nee)

Tajo, Italo (EE tah loh TIGH oh)

TAKACS STRING QUARTET (TAH kahch) ENSEMBLE

Talich, Vaclav (VAHT' slaf TAY' lik)Czech=con

Talvela, Marti (4 FEB - )Fin=Bass

Tan, Chester ( - )

TAN, Dun ( - )Cond-Com

Tan, Melvyn (13 OCT - )Singapore=P-Harpsichordist

Tanner, Carl (Arlington, VA - )Tenor. MET debut 1999-2000

TASHI (TAH shee) ENSEMBLE

Tate, Jeffrey (28 APR - )Eng=Con

Taub, Robert (Metuchen, NJ - )Am=Pianist, MET 1998-9

Tauber, Jonas ( - )Am=C

Tauber, Richard (16 MAY -
)Austrian-Eng=Ten

Tausky, V (20 JUL - )Czech-Eng=Con

Taylor, Daniel (ottowa - )Can=Coun-Ten, MET 1998-99

Taylor,
Frances (- )Eng=Mandolin

Tear, Robert (8 MAR - )Welsh=Ten-Con

Tebaldi, Renatta (ray NAH
tah tay BAL dee) (1 FEB - )It=Sop

Teitov, Frances (tie tawv) ( - )

Te Kanawa, Dame Kiri
(KEER ee tay KAH nah wah) ( 6 MAR 1944 - )NZ=Sop

Te
Kanawa, Kiri

HREF="http://www.emiclassics.com/artists/biogs/kirb.html">
EMI
Classics Biog
Stacey Martin's Dame Kiri
Page

Temirkanov, Yuri (YOO' ree teh MEER' kah noff)( - )Rus=Con

Tengstrand, Per ( - )Swed=P

Tennstedt, Klaus (klows ten shteht)(6 JUN 1926 - 12 JAN 1998 )Ger=Con

TENORS OF THE PAST Site

Terfel, Bryn (brin
ter FEL)
(Pantgloss, 9 NOV -
)Welsh=
Bass-
Bar, MET 1994

Fan page

Ter Linden, Jaap (yahp ter LIN den ( - )VIOLA

Terentieva, Nina (Chelyabinsk, - )Rus=Mez-Sop, MET 1992

Terrani, L (29 AUG - )It=MezSop

Tertis, L (29 DEC - )Eng=Violist

Tetard, Albert and Jeanine (ahl BAIR and juh NEEN tay tahr)

Tetrazzini, Luisa (loo EE zah tay trah tSEE nee) ( - )=SOP

Tetzlaff, Christian = Violinist

Teyte, Dame Maggie (17 APR - )Eng=Sop

Thalben-Ball, Sir G (18 JUN - )Australian=Org-Com

Thebom, Blance (THEE bom)

Theremin, Leon
RUS=Instrument, 'Theremin'

Thibaud, Jacques (zhock tee BOH) (1880 - 1953)Fr=V

Thibaudet, Jean-Yves (zhah eev tee boh DAY) (7 SEP - )FR=P

Thiele, Beverly O'Regan (Elma, Iowa - )Soprano. MET debut 1999-2000

Thiollier, Francois-Joel (fran SWA-zhoh EL tyoh lyay) ( -
)Fr-Am=P

Thomas, D (26 FEB - )Eng=Bass

Thomas,
Indra (Atlanta, - )Am=Sop, MET 1998-9

Thomas, Katherine ( - )ENG= F Margaret Murphy agency, UK

HREF="http://www.schirmer.com/composers/tilson_thomas_bio.html">
Thomas,
Michael Tilson (21 DEC - )Am=C

Thomson, Bryden (28 JUL 1928 - 1991 )Scot=Con

Thompson, Michael ( - )

Thunemann,
Klaus (klaws TOO neh mahnn)( - ) =bassoon

Tian, Hao Jiang (Beijing, - )China=Bass, MET 1991

TIBALDI, Renata It Opera Soprano (b-Pesaro, 1 FEB 1922 - d-Marino, 19 DEC 2004)

Tibbett, Lawrence ( - )AM=BAR

Tibury, Susan (Mascoutah, IL - )Am=Sop, MET 1998

Tichy, Georg (GAY org TEE khee) ( - )

Tickell, Kathryn ( - )Scot=Bagpipes

Tilney, Colin (31 OCT - )Eng=Harpsichordist

Timanoff, Vera Victorova (1855 - 1942)Rus=P

Tintner,
Georg ( - )=Cond.

Tipo, Maria ( 12 DEC 1931 - )Italian pianist

Titelouze, Jehan (jeh HAHN teet LOOZ)(1562? - 1633)Fr=Org-com

Tjecknavorian, Loris (LOHR' es check nah VOR' ee ahn)

Todd, Richard, ( - ) =HORN

Tofte-Hansen, Jens (yenz TOHF thu HAHN sen)

Tokody, Ilona (EE loh nah TOH kohj) ( - )

Tokos, Zoltan (ZOHL tahn TOH kohsh) ( - )

TOKYO STRING QUARTET

Tomes, Susan ( - )Eng=P

Tomlinson, John (Accrington, 22 SEP - )Eng=Bass, MET 1998-9

Tomowa-Sintow, Anna (AH nah TOH moh vah SEE tohf)(22 SEP - )Bulgarian=Sop

Tomsic, Dubrovka ( - )Slovenian=P

Tonko, Agnes (TURN koh) ( - )Fin

TONKUENSTLER ORCHESTRA (TONE kunst ler)Germany

Torok, Frantisek (FRAHN tee shehk TOH rok) ( - )

TORONTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Tortelier, Paul (Tor tel lyay) (21 MAR - )Fr=Cel-Con

Tortelier,
Yan-Pascal (19 APR - )Fr=V=Con

Toscanini,
Arturo (tohs kah NEE nee)(25 MAR - )It=C

Toscanini Discography

Toth, Janos (YAH nohsh tote) ( - )con

TOULOUSE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (too LOOZ) France

Tourel, Jennie (too REL) ( - )

Tournemire, Charles-Arnould (toorn meer)(1870 - 1939)Fr=Organist-com

Touvron, Guy (Gee too vrohn) ( - )Fr=T

Tovey, Sir D. F. (17 JUL - )Eng=P-Com

Towner, Ralph ( - )Am=G

Towner Discography, ECM

Townshend, Simon (10 OCT 1960 - ) G=COMP

Toyohiko, Satoh (SAH toh toh YOH hee koh) ( - )Japn

Tozzi, Georgio (jorj oh TOHT zee)( - )Am=

Traubel,
Helen (TRAW bil) ( 1899 -1972 )AM=Sop

Travis, Dale (Trenton, NJ - )Bass-baritone. MET debut 1999-2000

Trebnik, Andrea (Rochestrer Hills, MI - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1998-9

Trempont,
Michel (Boussu, - )Belgian=Bar, MET 1995

Trhlik, Otakar ( - )Czech=con

Trifonova, Olga (St. Petersbnurg, - )Rus=Sop, MET 1998-9

TRIO
FONTENAY (fohn tuh NAY) France

Trio Veronezh (Vuh-ROH-n(y)esh)Rus

Trotter, T (4 APR - )Eng=Org

Trouttet, Andre (ahn DRAY troo TAY) ( - )Fr=clarinet

Troyanos, Tatiana (tah TYAH nah troy AH nos) (9 DEC 1938 - 1995)Am=MezSop

Trucato Pace, Miti (MEE tee trook KAH toh PAH chay)

Trullu, Maria Jose( - )

Tschudi, Burkhard (Schoo dee) (1702 - 1773) Eng (Harpsichord maker) "Broadwood and Sons"

Tuckwell, Barry (5 MAR - )Australian=Horn-Con

Tumagian, Eduard (too mah JON) ( - )

Tureck, Rosalyn (14 DEC 1914 - NYC, 17 JUL 2003)Am=Harpsichordist-Pianist

TURECK Rosalyn, (Harpsichordist)

NY Times, Obituary

Turkovic, Milan (MEE lan TOR' koh vitch)( - )bassoon

Turovsky, Yuli (YOO lee toor OFF skee) ( - )Rus=con

Turner, Dame Edith (10 MAR 1892 - 1990)Eng=Sop

Turriziani, Angelo (too ree TSYAH nee) ( - )It

Tyler, J (3 AUG - )Am-Lute

Tylsar, Zdenek & Bedrich (TEEL shar)horns

Tzipine, Georges (jhorge tsee peen)

Performers Index ~ S

2009-10-11T10:51:00.003-05:00

SAAR COLLEGIUM MUSICUM (zahr kuh leggy oom MOO zeh koom)

Sabata, Victor de (SAH bah tah) (10 APR - )It=Con

Saccani, Rico (Tucson, AZ- )Am=Cond.

Sacher, Paul (28 APR - MAY 1999)Swiss=Cond

Saint-Saens,
Camille (kah ME seh SAHZ) (1835 - 1921)Fr=P-Comp.

SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Saks, Gidon (Rochovost, IS - )Bass. MET debut 1999-2000

Salerno-Sonnenberg, Nadja (NAH dyah suh LER noh SOH nen berg) ( -
)=V

Salonen, Esa-Pekka (EH sah PECK
ah SAH loh
nin) (30 JUN - )Fin= Cond

SALZBERG CAMERATA ACADEMICA (ZAHLTS boorg hah muh RAH tuh ah kuh DEH
mee kuh)

Salzedo, Carlos ( - )harpist-Teacher-Composer

Salzedo, Leonard ( 24 SEP 1921 - 6 MAY 2000 )Eng.

Samaroff, Olga (Hickenlooper)(Texas, 1882 - 1948)Am=P

Sammons, A (23 FEB - )Eng=V-Com

SAN ANTONIO SYM ORCH - Texas

Sanderling, Kurt (koort ZAHN der ling)(19 SEP - )Ger= Cond

Sanders, Samuel (27 JUN 1937 - 10 JUL 1999)Am=P

Sandor, Gyorgy (JERI SHAN dohr) ( - )con

Sandor, Janos (YAH nohsh SHAN dohr) ( - )con

Sandoval,
Arturo ( - )Cuban trumpeter

SANTA FE GUITAR
QUARTET of Argentina

Santi, Nelo (Adria, -)It=cond, MET 1962

Santos,
Turibio (too REE bee oh SAHN toosh) ( - )

Saraste, Jukka-Pekka (YOU kah PECK ah SAHR es stah) (22 APR - )Fin=Con

Sargent, Sir Malcolm (29 APR - )Eng=Con

Sass, Sylvia (SIL vee
ah Shahsh) (21 JUL - )Hung=Sop

Satake, Akira (1958 - ) JPN=BANJO=COMP

Sato, Hikaru (hee KAH roo SAH toh) ( - )

Savall, Jordi ( 1941 - ) violist

violist Jordi Savall interview

Savarese, Ugo (OO goh sah vah RAY say)

Sawalisch,
Wolfgang (WOLF' gang sah VAH leech) (26 AUG 1923 -
)Ger=Con-P

Sawallisch, History

Sax,
Adolph (6 NOV 1814 - Paris, 4 FEB 1894)Belgian=Saxophone inventor

Classical Compositions featuring Saxophone

Sax info

Sax Biog

Say, Fazil (SIGH) ( 1971- )Tur=P

Sayao, Bidu (bee doo sigh OW) ( 11 MAY 1902 -
Lincolnville, ME 12
MAR 1999 )Brazilian=Sop

Scandiuzzi, Roberto (Treviso, - )It=bass, MET 1995

Schafer, Markus (SHAY fer) ( - ) con

Schade, Michael (Geneva, - )Sw=Ten, MET 1993

Schaldenbrand,
Christopher (Farmington, MI - )Am=Bar, MET 1993

Scheidt, S (3 NOV - )Ger=Org-Com

Schellenberger, Hansjorg (hahns YERG SHEH len ber ger) ( - )bassoon

Scherbakov, Konstantin (kuhn stan TEEN sher bah KOF) ( - )Rus=P

Scherchen, Hermann (HAIR' mahn SHAIR' kin)GER=C

Schermerhorn,
Kenneth (SHER mer horn)( - )Eng=con

Schickele, Peter (PEE ter SHICK ah lee) ( - )humorist=com

Schie, Tjako van
( - )Dutch classical performing pianist & composer

Schiff, Andras (AHN drahs Shihf) (21 DEC - )Hung=P

Schiff, Heinrich (HYN rik sheef)(18 NOV - )Austrian=Cel-Con

Schiotz, Aksel (AK sel shots) ( - )tenor

Schipa, Tito (tee TOH SKEE pah)

Schippers, Thomas ( 9 MAR 1930 - 16 DEC 1977)Am=Cond

Schmeisser, Annemarie (ah nah mah REE SCHMY ser) ( - )Ger

Schmidt,
Joseph ( 1904 - 16 NOV 1942 )Ger=Ten

Schmidt-Isserstedt,
Hans (Schmidt - EE' sir stat) (1900 -
1973)Ger=con

Schmieder, Wolfgang (WOLF gang SHMEE der) ( - )Bach cataloger

Schmitz, Elie Robert (1889 - 1949)P

Schmitz, Michael ( - )Am=P (Pima CC, Tucson)

Schuller, Gunther (GOOn' ther SHOO' ler)AM=C=P=Comp=Author

Schnabel,
Arthur (AHR toor SHNAH bul)(17 APR 1882 -
1951)Austrian=P-Com

Schnabel, K (6 AUG - )Ger=P-Com

Schnaut, Gabriele(Mannheim, - )Ger=Sop, MET 1996

Schneider, A (21 OCT - )Rus=V-Con

Schneider, Mische (MEE sha SHNY der) ( - )

Schneiderhan, Wolfgang (Vienna, 28 MAY 1915 - Vienna, 18 MAY 2002).

Boston Globe Obituary.

Scholl, Andreas ( -
)Counter tenor

Schone, L (15 DEC - )Austrian=Sop

Schreier, Peter (29 JUL - )Ger=Ten-Con

Schroeder, Jap (31 DEC - )Dutch=V

Schoenfeld, Paul (SHON feld) ( - )

SCHOLA CANTORUN BASILIENSIS (SKOH luh kan TOH rum bah zee LYEN sis)

Schoonmaker, Bruce ( - )Am=Baritone

Schowalter, Mark (Wauwatosa, WI - )Am=Ten, MET 1998-9

Schrader, David (SHRAY der)

Schreier, Peter (PAY ter SHRY er)See Schreier, Peter above.

Schuricht, Carl (SHUR rikt) ( - ) con

Schub, Andre Michel (ahn dray mee SHEL Shoob) ( - )P

Schuller, Gunther (SHOO ler) (NYC, 22 NOV 1925 - )AM=Com-Con

The Compleat Conductor

Schulte, Eike Wilm (Plettenberg, - )Ger=Bar, MET 1991

Schulz, Wolfgang (VOLF gang Shooltz) ( - )

Schulze, Theodora (tay oh DOOR ah SHOOL tsuh) ( - )

Schumann, Clara (Leipzig, 13 SEP 1819 - Frankfurt am Main, 20 MAY 1896)Ger
Ger=P-Com

Schumann, E (13 JUN - )Ger-Am=Sop

Schuricht,
Carl (Danzig, 3 JUL 1980 - Switzerland, 7 JAN 1967)Ger=Cond

Schwalbe, Michel (mee
SHEL SHVAHL buh) ( - )

Schwarz,
Gerard (juh RARD shwortz) ( - )=con Seattle
Sym

Schwartz, Hanna (Hamberg, - )Ger=Mez-Sop, MET 1988

Schwarzkopf, Dame
Elizabeth (SVARTS koff) (9 DEC 1915 - 3 AUG 2006)Ger=Sop

Schweitzer, Albert (14 JAN - )Fr=Org-Physician-Bach scholar

Scimone, Claudio (clowdee oh she MOH nay)(23 DEC - )It=Con

Scotto, Renatta (reh NAH
tah SKAH toh) (24 FEB - )It=Sop

Scriabin, Alexander (1872 - 1915)Rus=P-Comp.

Seaman, C (7 MAR - )Eng=Con

SEATTLE
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Sebestyen, Janos (YAH nohsh SHEH beh styen) ( - )

Sebok, Gyorgy (gay OR gee seh BAHK) (Szeged, 2 NOV 1922 - Bloomington, IN, 14 NOV 1999 )Hun=P-Prof Univ IN.

Secombe, Sir H. (7 SEP - )Welsh=Ten

Sedov,
Denis (St. Petersburg, -)Rus=Bass, MET 1996

Seefried, Imgaard (IRM gart ZAY freet)( - )

Seeman, Carl (ZAY' mahnn)

Segal, Uri (7 MAR - )Isr=Con

Segar, Kathleen (Dearborn, MI - )Mezzo-Soprano. MET debut 1999-2000

Segerstam, Leif (Layf SEH ger stahm) ( - )Swed=con

Segovia, Andres ( ahn DRAYS seh GOH vee
ah)(21 FEB - )Sp=G

Segovia and nylon strings

Seibel, Klauspeter ( - )Con

Seiffert, P (4 JAN - )Ger=Ten

Seinemeyer, Meta ( Berlin, 5 SEP 1895 - Dresden, 19 AUG 1929)Ger-Sop.

Seipenbush, Edgar (ZY pen boosh) ( - )con

Selig, Franz-Josef (Mayen, -)Ger=Bass, MET 1998-9

Sejna, Karol (SHA nah) ( - )Czech=con

Selfe, Ned (6 MAY 1953 - )AM=G

Sembrich, M (15 FEB - )Polish=Sop

Seow, Yitkin ( - )=P

SEQUOIA STRING QUARTET (suh KWOY ah)

Serafin, Tulio (TOO' lee oh sair ah FEEN') ( - )IT=C

Serebrier, Jose (hoy SAY seh ree bree AIR) ( 3 DEC 1938 - )Uruguay=con-com

Sereni, Mario (MAH ree oh seh RAY nee)( - )It

Serkin, Peter (PEE ter SIR kin)(24 JUL - )Am=Pianist (son)

Serkin, Rudolf (ROO dolwlf SIR kin)(28 MAR - )Pol-Am= Pianist (father)

Sevilla, Jean-Paul ( - )Fr-P

Sgouros, Dimitris (dee MEE trees ZGOO rohs) (Athens, 30 AUG 1969 - )Gr=P

Shafran,
Daniil ( 13 JAN 1923 - 7 FEB 1997)Rus=C

Shaham, Gil ( -
)=V (brother of Orli)
(SHA'
ham)(Family
pronunciation).

Shaham, Hagai ( 1966 - )Is.=V

Shaham, Orli ( - )Am=P (sister of Gil)

Shands, Patricia, =CL

Shankar, Ravi (7 APR - )In=Sitar

Shaulis, Jane (Belleville, NJ - )Am=Sop, MET 1991

Shaw, Robert Lawson
( Red
Bluff,
CA 30 APR 1916 - New Haven, CT 25 JAN 1999 )CA = Choral Cond.,
Atlanta Sym.

Shawndeya (12 OCT 1942) Chicago-AM = Harpist

Sharapova,
Irina ( - )Rus-Pianist

Shelley, Howard ( 9 MAR - )Eng=P-Cond

Shelton,
Lucy (22 FEB - )Am=Sop

Shenandoah, Joanne (Native)AM=VOC=G=FL=Com

Sheppard, C (26 NOV - )Am=P

Sherman, R ( - )P

Shevelevich,
Olga( - )Rus-harpist

Shicoff, Niel (2 JUN - )Am=Ten

Shimeta, Kathleen ( - )Mezzo-Soprano

Shimell, W. (23 SEP - )Eng=Bar

Shin, Youngok (Seoul, - )Kor=Sop, MET 1991

Shirley, George (18 APR 1932 - )Am=Ten

Shirley-Quirk, John (2 AUG - )Eng=Bar (husband)

Shirley-Quirk,
Sara Watkins ( - )oboe-cond. (wife>

Shostakovich, Maxim (mahk SEEM sha stah KOH vitch) (10 MAY - )Rus-Con (Son of Dimitri s.)

Shouse, Catherine Filene ( 1896 - 1994) Am-Arts patron

Shouse, Catherine Filene ( - )Am=

Shumsky, Oscar (Phila, 23 MAR 1917 - Rye, NY, 24 JUL 2000)
Am=Violinist, cond., teacher. New
York Times, Obit

Sidwell, M (23 FEB - )Eng=Con-Org

Siepe, Cesare (CHAY sah ray see EH pee)It=bass-baritone

Silbermann, Gottfried ( - )Ger=Organ builder

Silins, Egils (Liegatne, Latvia - )Bass. MET debut 1999-2000

Silja, Anja
(AHN yah SEEL yah) ( - )sop

Sills, Beverly (25 MAY - )AM=SOP

Silva,
Luigi (13 NOV 1903 - 1961)It=C

Silverstein, Joseph (SIL ver styn) ( - )Am=V-con

Silvestri, C (13 MAY - )Rom-Eng=Con-Com

Simionato, Giulietta (joo LYET tah see MYO NAH tah)

Simon, Abbey (Ah bee SY min) ( - ) P
Moores's School of Music, Faculty

Sinadinovic,
Dejan Pianist

SINFONIA 21 founded
1989 as Docklands Sinfonietta London. Martyn Brabbins, prin. cond.

SINFONIA
VARSOVIA Warsaw Poland (In Polish)

Singher, Martial (mar syahl sahn gehr)

Sinopoli, Guiseppi (joo ZEP pay sih NOH poh lee)(Venice, 2 NOV 1946 - Berlin, 20 APR 2001 )It=Con

Sipkay, Deborah (SHIP ky) ( - )harp

Sitkovetsky, Dimitri (27 SEP - )Rus=V

Skok, Heidi (Painesville, OH, - )Am=Sop, MET 1992

Skovhus,
Bo (Ikast, - )Dan=Bar, MET 1998-9

Skrowaczewski, Stanislav (stah NEE swaf skro vah CHEFF skee)(3 OCT - )Pol-Am=Con-Com

Skwortsow,
Alexander ( - )=V

Slatkin,
Felix ( 1915 - 1963 )AM= Cond (Father of Leonard)

Slatkin, Leonard

( 1 SEP 1944 - )Am = Cond-St.Louis Sym Orch

Slavny, Andrei (
- )Rus-baritone

Slencynska, Ruth (slen ZINS kah)

Slonimsky, Nicolas (27 APR 1894 - 25,26 or 27 DEC 1995 )
Writer-Baker's Bio Dictionary Editor

Slovak,
Ladislav (LAH dih slav SLOH vahk)
( 1919 - died in Bratislava )Slovak=con

Slovik, Kenneth (SLOH wik) ( - )cond.

Smetacek, Vaclav (VAHT slaf smeh TAH chek) ( - )Czech=con

Smith, Brooks ( 1912 - Covina, CA 31 OCT 2000)Am=P
NY Times, Obit

Smith, Darren ( - )

Smith, Gregg ( - ) Choral Director

Smith,
Gregory ( - )Clar=Chicago SO

Smith, J (13 JUL - )Eng=Sop

Smith, Phil ( - )Am=trm

Bio, CNN.com

Sobol, Lawrence (SEW bul) ( - )Clarinet

Soderstrom, Elisabeth (SOH der strom)(Stockholm, 7 MAY - )Swed=Sop, MET
1959

SOHN, Livia ( 1977 - )V

SOKKELUND SANGKOR Chorus (SOH kuh loond SAHNG kohr)

Soffel, D (15 MAY - )Ger=MezSop

Soifertis, Evgeny (Kiev, - )Rus=P

Sokolov,
Grigory ( - )Rus=P

SOLARIS QUARTET Margaret Murphy Agency, UK

Solea, Maria Mana (MAHn yah mah REE ah soh LAY ah) ( - )

Solin, Hans (hahns ZOH lin) ( - )

Sollscher, Goran (GORE in ZOLL cher) ( - )=G

Solomon, Izler (EYEz ler SAH loh min) ( - ) Cond

Solomon, Yonty (YAHN tee SAH loh min) (9 AUG - )Eng=P

Solomonow, Rami, =VA

Solti, Georg ( ZHORZH ZHSHOL' tee) (21 OCT 1912 - 4 SEP 1997)
HUNG=C=P

Solum, John (SOH lum) ( - )flute

Somary,
Johannes (yoh HAN is soh MAR ee) ( - )Eng=con

SONI VENTORUM WIND QUINTET (SOH lee vehn TOH rim)

Sonstevold, Knut (Knoot SOHN stuh vohl) ( - )Sw=harpscd

Souzay, Gerard (jher ahr soo zay)(Angiers, 8 DEC 1918 - 17 AUG 2004)Fr=Bar

Sowash,
Bradley (SOH' wash) (3 SEP 1960 - )OH=P=COM

Soviero, Diana ( - )Sop

Spacagna, Maria (Providence, RI - )Am=Sop, MET 1990

Spalding, Albert
( - )Am=V

Spanjaard, Ed (SPAHN yard) ( - )D=P-con

Spano, Robert ( - )Am=Cond-Comp-P,
Atlanta Sym, Brooklyn Philh.

Spano, RobertBiography
Oberlin
College, faculty

Spanoghe, Viviane (vee Vyahn spah NOH khuh) ( - )cellist

Spielberg,
Robin (20 NOV 196?) AM=P=Comp

Spilman, Vladislaw See: Szpilman, Wadyslaw; Polish pianist

Spivakov, Vladimir (12 SEP - )Rus=V-cond

St.Clair, Carl ( - )Am=Con

St. JOHN, Lara ( - )Am-Violinist

St. Petersburg
Male Choir

STAATSKAPELLE
DRESDEN (SHTAHTS kah peh lah)

Stacy, Tom ( - )Am-Eng horn

Stader, Maria (STAH der) ( - 30 APR 1999) Sop

STADLER TRIO (SHTAHD ler)

Staier,
Andreas (scht EYE' er)( 1955 - )P

Stamitz, J. W. (19 JAN - )Bohemian=V-Com

Stanciu, Simion (SEE mohn STAHN choo) ( - )panflute

Standage, Simon (8 NOV - )Eng=V

Starker, Janos (YAH nohsh STAR ker)(5 JUL - )Hung-Am=Cel

Steber, Eleanor(STEE ber) ( 1914 - 1990 ) Sop

Steel-Perkins,
Crispian
( - ) =trumpet

Stefano, Guiseppi (24 JUL - )It=Ten

Stein, Horst (Shtein)( - )con

Steinberg, W (1 AUG - )Ger-Am=Con

Stengaard, Frode (FROH deh STEN gohr) ( - )

Stenz, M (28 FEB - )Ger=Con

Stern, Isaac (21 JUL 1920 - 22 SEP 2001)Rus-Am=V

Stern, Sony Classical Artist

Obit

Stevenson, Tony (Greenville, SC - )Am=Ten, MET 1993

Stich-Randall, Teresa (tuh REE sah stik RAN dull) (24 DEC - )Am-Sop

St. John, Lara ( - )Can-V

Stockhausen, Karlheinz (KARL hynz STOK how zen ( - )Ger=con

Stockigh, Siegfried (SEEG'freed Shteh KEET) ( - ) P

Stokowski, Leopold (lay oh polt stoh KOF
skee) (London, 18 APR 1881 -
1977)Eng-Am=Con

Stockton, Rick ( - )Am=V

Stoltzman, Richard (stolts man)(12 JUL - )Am=Clar

Stolze, Gerhard (GEHR hard SHTOHL tsuh) (1926 - 1979 )Ger-Ten

Stone, William (Goldsboro, NC - )Am=Bar, MET 1998

Stott, Kathryn (10 DEC - )Eng=P

Stradivari, F (1 FEB - )It=V maker

Straka, Peter (Zlin, - )Czech=Ten, MET 1991

Strange, Alison ( - )ENG=V

Strano, Francesco (frahn CHES koh STRAH noh) ( - )

Stratas, Teresa (26 MAY - )Can=Sop

Stratta, Ettore (eh TOR ray STRAH tah)( - )con

Strauss, Richard ( 11 JUN 1864 - 8 SEP 1949)Ger=Cond-P-Comp.

Streich, Rita (REE tah SHTRIK) (18 DEC - )Ger=Sop

Stroutsos, Gary (STROW' sus) (19 JUL 1954)VT AM=FL

Struckmann, Falk (Heilbronn, - )Ger=Bar, MET 1997

Stryja, Karol (KAH rol STREE yah)Pol=Con

Studebaker, Thomas (Danville, IL - )Am=Ten, MET 1997

Studer, Carol (24 OCT - )
Am=Sop

SUDDEUTSCHE PHILHARMONIK - South German Radio -
Stuttgart

SUISSE ROMANDE ORCH (swis roh MAHN ) Amsterdam

Suitner, Atmar (AHT' mar SWEET' ner)Ger=Opera Dir

Suk,
Joseph (YOH zef sook) (8 AUG - )Czech=V

Sullivan, Maireid ( - ) =Voc

Summers, J (2 OCT - )Australian=Bar

Summers, Patrick (Washington, IN - )Am=Cond, MET 1998-9

Supervia, Conchita (kon CHEE tah soo per VEE ah) (9 DEC -
)Sp=MezSop

Susskind, Walter (SOOS kind)(1 MAY - )Czech-Am=Con

Sutherland, Dame Joan (7
NOV - 10 OCT 2010) Australian=Sop - (m=R. Bonyng-Con) OBIT

Suzuki, Hidemi and Ichiro (ee CHEE roh & hee DEH mee soo ZOO jkee)

SVESHNIKOV CHORUS (SVESH nee kof)

Svetlanov, Evgeny (vef GAY nee svet LAH nof)(6 SEP 1928 - Moscow, 3 May 2002
)Rus=Con-Com Obit.

Evgeny SVETLANOV

Spotlight on Svetlanov

Swarowsky, Hans (hahns svah ROFF skee)( - )Pol=cond

Sweet, Sharon (Gloversville, NY - )Am=Sop, MET 1990

Swenson, Joseph ( - )=V-Cond.

Swenson,
Ruth Anne (Bronxville, NY - )Am=Soprano, MET 1988

Swierczewski, Michel (mee shel shver CHEV skee) ( - )Pol=con

Sykes, Jubilant ( - )Am=Singer

Sylvester, Michael (Nobelville, IN - )Am=Ten, MET 1991

Szabo, Imrich (EEM reek SAH boh) ( - )

Szabo, Miklos (MEE klosh SAH boh) ( - )

Szecsodi, Ferenc (FEH rehents SEH choh dee) ( - )

Szekely, Istvan =P

Szelecsenyi, Norbert (SEH leh chen yee) ( - )

Szell, George (Gyorgie)
(Budapest,
7 JUN 1897- Cleveland, 30 JUL 1970
)Hung-Am=Con-P-Com - Cleveland O

Szerynk, Henryk (AHN' rik SHEAR' ing)
( Zelazova Wola, 22 SEP 1918 - Kassel, Germany 3 MAR 1988 )Pol-Mex=V
aka HENRYK SZERYNG
Violin

Szigeti, Joseph (YOH zef SIH geh tee)( - )
On The Violin

Szokolay, Balazs (BAH lahz SOH koh lee)

Szpilman, Wladyslaw (Sosnowiec, 1911 - Warsaw, 6 JUL 2000)Pol-Pianist

The Pianist

Performers Index ~ R

2009-10-11T10:50:00.001-05:00

Rabiner, Ellen (NYC, - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1994

Racette, Patricia (Manchester, NH - )Am=Sop, MET 1995

Rachmaninoff,
Sergie (1873 - 1943)Rus.=P-Comp.

Radvanovsky, Sondra (Berwyn, IL - )Am=Sop, MET 1997

Rafn,
Eyvind (AY vin RAH fin)( - )flute

Ragin, D. L. (17 JUN - )Am=ConTen

Rahbari, Alexander (rah BAHR ee) ( - )con

Raimundi, Ruggero (roo JEH roh ry MOHN dee) ( - ) (3 OCT - )It=Bass

Ramey, Samuel (Colby, KS 28 MAR - )Am=Bass, MET 1984

Rampal, J P (7 JAN 1922 -
20 MAY 2000)Fr=Fl-Con-Teacher (son)

Rampal,
Jean-Pierre

Rampal, Joseph ( - Jan 1983)Fr=Fl-Teach (Father of J. P)

Ramsdale, Emma ( - )Eng=Harp

Randova, Eva (Kolin, - )Czech=Mez-Sop, MET 1981
Photo

Ranki, Deszo (8 SEP - )Hung=P

Rappe,
Jadwiga (yahd VEE gah rah PAY)

Rattle, Simon (19 JAN - )ENG-C

EMI

CLASSICS Biog

Ravel, Maurice (1875 - 1937)Fr=P-Comp.

Rawnsley, J (14 DEC - )Eng=Bar

Raychev, Rouslan (roos LAHN RY cheff) ( - )con

Redel, Kurt (koort RAY duhl)(8 OCT - )Ger=Cond-Fl

Reichert, Aviram (
- ) = P

Reid, Charles (Harlingen, TX - )Am=Ten, MET 1998

Reiner, Fritz (RY' ner) (19 DEC 1888 - 1963)Hung-Am=Cond (Chicago
Sym)

Reizen, Mark Osipovich ( 21 JUN 1985 - )Zaitsevo, Ukraine=Bass

Rejto, Peter(RY' toh)( - )AM=CEL

Relyea, John (Toronto, CA - )Bass-baritone. MET debut 1999-2000

Rendall, D (11 OCT - )Eng=Ten

Repin, Vadim(Novosibirsk, - ) = V

Rescigno, Joseph ( - )Con

Resnik, Regina (ruh JEE nah REHZ nik) ( - )=Sop

Rev, Livia ( - )Hung=P

Reynolds, A (4 OCT - )Eng=MezSop

Rezucha, Bystrik (BEE strik REH zoo kah) ( - )con

Rhinesmith, Sharon Rose ( - )Am=Sop

RIAS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Director, Marcus Creed
( - )

Ricci, Ruggerio (roo JER roh REE chee) (24 JUL - )Am=V

Ricciarelli, Katia (KAH tyah ree chah REL lee) (18 JAN )It=Sop

Richter, Hans (RIK ter)(4 APR - )Ger=Con

Richter,
Karl (RIK ter) ( 15 OCT - 15 FEB 1981 )Ger=Keybd-Cond.

Richter,
Sviatoslav (svee AH toh slaf RIH' ter)(20 MAR - 1997)RUS=P

Ridderbusch, Karl (RIH der boosh) ( - )

Riegel, Kenneth (REE gul) (19 APR - )Am=Ten

Rifkin, Joshua (22 APR - )Am=Con-P

Rigby, J (22 DEC - )Eng=MezSop

RIMAS, Juozas ( - )Lith=Oboe

Rimbeau, Romero (RIM boh) Con

Risley, Patricia (Sumter, SC - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1997

Ristenpart, Karl (RIST ten part) ( - ) Con

Rizzi, Carlo (Milan, - )It=Con, MET 1993

Robbins, Julien (Harrisburg, PA - )Am=Bass, MET 1979

Roberts, B (23 JUL - )Eng=P

HREF="http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/roberts_bio.htm">
Roberts,
Marcus ( - )=P

Roberts, S (8 FEB - )Eng=Bar

Robertson, Christopher (Trenton, NJ - )Am=Bar, MET 1992

Robertson, David (Santa Monica, CA - )Am=Con, MET 1998 Photo

Robeson, Paul (pawl ROBE son)
(9 APR - )Am=Bass-Actor

Robison, Paula (ROH beh son) ( - )AM=flute

Robinson, C (20 APR - )Eng=Org-Con

Robles, Marissa (mah RIS ah ROH bulz) (4 MAY - )Sp-Eng=Harpist

Robson, N (15 DEC - )Eng=Ten

Rodarmer,
Kurt ( - )G

Rodgers, J (4 NOV - )Eng=Sop

Rodriguez, Christina ( - )Mez=Sop

Rodzinski, Artur (1 JAN - )Pol=Con

Roge, Pascal (pahs KAL roh ZHAY)(6 APR - )Fr=P

Rogg, Lionel (ROHg) (21 APR -)Swis=Org

Rolff Johnson, A (5 NOV - )Eng=Ten

Roll, M (17 JUL - )Eng=P

ROMANESCA ENSEMBLE

Rombout, Ernest (ehr NEST rohm BOO) ( - )

Romero, Angel (AHN hel Roh MAIR oh) ( - )Sp=G (Son)

Romero,
Celedonio (the leh DOH nee oh roh MAIR oh)Sp=G (father)

Romero, Pepe (PEH pay roh MAIR oh) (
- )SP=G (son)

Roocroft,
Amanda (8 JAN 1966 - )Eng=Sop

Rooley, Anthony (10 JUN - )Eng=Lute

Rootering, J-H (18 MAR - )Ger=Bass

Rosand, Aaron
(Hammond, IN 15 MAR 1927 - )Am=V

Roscoe, Martin ( - )=P

Rose, Leonard (1918-84)Am-Cel

Rosen, Charles (5 MAY - )Am=P

Rosen, Nathaniel (Altadena, CA 9 JUN 1948 - )Am=Cel

Rosenshein, Neil (NYC, - )Am=Ten, MET 1987

Rosenthal, Manuel ( Paris, 18 JUN 1904 - 5 JUN 2003)Fr-Comp-Cond.

Andante, obituary

Rosenthal, Moriz (1862 - 1946)P

Rosewange, Helge (HEL geh ROHS veng eh)

Ross, E (28 APR - )Am=Sop

Rossi-Lemeni, Nicola (NEE koh Lah RAH see lay MAY nee)

Rost,
Andrea (Budapest, - )Hung=Sop, MET 1996

HREF="http://encarta.msn.com/index/concise/0VOL04/00655000.asp">
Rostropovich,
Mistislav (MEE' stee slaf rhos troh POH'
vitch) (27 MAR - )RUS-AM=CEL-Con (National Sym)

HREF="http://www.emiclassics.com/artists/biogs/rosb.html">
EMI Classics
Biog

Roth, Daniel (rawth)

Rothenberger, Anneliese (AH nah lee zah ROT en ber ger) (1924 - )

Rousseau,
Lorraine
CAN=FL=COMP

Rousset, Christophe (kree STAWF roo SAY) ( - )Fr=harpsichordist

Rowland, Gilbert (ROW lund)

ROYAL
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA - Glasgow - Alexander
Laarev, cond (1998)

ROYAL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA - LONDON -f. 1946 by Sir Thomas Beecham

HREF="http://www.cadvision.com/Home_Pages/accounts/liszt/SikesdiPressWebpage.html">
Rumson,
Gordon CAN=P=Comp

Rozhdestvensky, Gennady (gen AH dee rahz dyest VYEN skee)(4 MAY 1931 -
)Rus=Con

Rubackyte, Muza
( MOO zah roo BAHTS kee tay) ( - ) P

Rubenstein, Bernard ( - )Con

Rubinstein, Anton (28 NOV - )Rus=P-Com

Rubinstein, Artur(AHR
toor ROO bihn styn) (28 JAN 1886 - 1982 )Pol-Am=P

Rubsam, Wolfgang (VOLF gang ROOB zahm) ( - )

Rudel, Julius (JOO lee us roo DEL) (Vienna, - )Austrian=con, MET 1978

Rudy,
Mikhail (3 APR - )Soviet=P

Runnicles, Donald (Edinburgh, 16 NOV - )Scot=Con, MET 1988

Russell, L (15 MAR - )Eng=Sop

RUSSIAN BRASS
of St. Petersburg Philharmonic

Rutter, John (London, 24 SEP 1945 - )Eng=Con.(Cambridge Singers)-Comp

Ruzickova,
Zuzana (ZOO zah nah ROO zheech koh vah) ( - )harpscd.

Rysanek, Leonie(LAY oh nee REE sah nek)(Vienna, 1926 - 7 MAR
98)Austrian=Sop

Performers Index ~ Q

2009-10-11T10:49:00.001-05:00

QUARTTO GELATO Canadian ensemble

QUATRA CELLI Cello Quartet

QUEBEC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Queffelec, Ann (kah FEL ik)(17 JAN - )Fr=P

Quasthoff, Thomas ( 9 NOV 1959 - ) = Baritone

Quilico, Gino (NYC, 29 APR - )
Am-Can=Bar, MET 1994

Quilico, Louis (Montreal, 14 JAN 1925 - Montreal, 15 JUL 2000)Can=Bar. OBIT

Quivar, Florence (3 MAR - )Am=MezSop

Performers Index ~ P

2009-10-11T10:48:00.001-05:00

HREF="http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/pacific_symphony_bio.htm">
PACIFIC
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Paderewsky,
Ignace Jan (EEg' nahs Yahn pah dair EV'
skee)(6 NOV 1860 - 1941 )POL=P-Statesman

Paetsch, Johann
Sebastian (1964 - )Am=C

Paganini,
Nicollo (
1782 - 1840)It=V-Com

Page, Robert (Abilene, TX 27 APR 1927 - )Am-Cond.

Pagliughi, Lina (LEE nah pahl YOU gee)

Pahud,
Emmanuel (Geneva, 27 JAN 1970 - )Swiss=Flute

HREF="http://www.emiclassics.com/artists/biogs/pahub.html">
EMI
Classics Biog

Paik, Kun-Woo (koon woo PECK) (20 JUL - )Kor-Am=P

Paillard, Jean Francois (PIE' lahr)FR=C

Paisiello, Giovanni (pies YEL' oh)
(1741-1816)IT=Vocalist-Composer

Paita, Carlos (KAR los py EE tah) ( 10 MAR 1932 - )Arg=Con

Palatchi, Stefano (Barcelona, - )Sp=Bass, MET 1994

Palm, S (25 APR - )Ger=Cel

Palay, Elliot ( - )ten

Palma, Susan

Palmer, Beau (Santa Monica, CA - )Tenor. MET debut 1999-2000

Palmer, Felicity (6 APR 1968 - )Eng=MezSoprano. MET debut 1999-2000

Pandolfo, Bruno see: Mester, Jorge

PANOCHA QUARTET (pah NOH kah)

Panula, Jorma (YOUR mah PAHN oo lah)( - )Fin=con

Pape, Rene (Dresden, 4 SEP - )Ger=Bass, MET 1992

Papian, Hasmik ( - )Armenian=Sop, MET 1998-9

Pappano,
Antonio ( - )It=P-Con-Com

Paray,
Paul (Paul pah RAY)( - )Fr=Con

PARIS COLLEGIUM MUSICUM (Kuh LEGEE ohm MOO zeh koom)

Parkening,
Christopher (14 DEC - )Am=G

Parker, Jon Kimura (25 DEC -
)CAN=P

HREF="http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/parrott_bio.htm">
Parrott,
Andrew (PAHR ot) (10 MAR 1947 - )Eng=Con

Parsons, Geoffrey (15 JUN - )Australian=P

Partridge,
Ian (12 JUN - )Eng=Ten

PASADENA SYMPHONY Pasadena, California

Paszthy, Julia (YOO lyah PAH stee)

Patriarco, Earle (LA, - )Am=Bar,MET 1996

Pauk, Gyorgy (jorg powk) (26 OCT - )Hung-Eng=V,

Paul, James ( - )Am=Cond

Pavlova, (PAHV luh vuh)

Pavlovsky, Anton ( 1945 - 2 NOV 1999 )Am=G

Anton Pavlovski Professional Profile

Pavarotti, Luciano (Loo
CHAH noh pah vah RAH tee) (Modena, 12
OCT 1935- )MOH deh nah, It=Ten, MET 1968
IT=TENOR

Luciano Pavarotti - Classics
World

Peacock, Christopher (19 SEP 1958) AM=P=COMP

PEACOCKS
FEATHER Russian Vocal Ensemble

Pearce,
John ( - )Am=G

Pears, Peter (22 JUN - )Eng-Ten

Peclard, Etienne (eh tee EN' pay KLAR')

Pedaci, Francesco (Bologna, - )IT=Sop, MET 1998-9

Pedard, Etienne (ay TYEHN peh DAHR)

Pederson, Monte (Sunnyside, WA - )Am=Bar, MET 1998-9

Peerce, Jan ( - )Am=ten

PEKINEL SISTERS Pianists

Pekinel, G (29 MAR - )Tur=P (sister)

Pekinel, S (29 MAR - )Tur=P (sister)

Pellerin, Louise ( - ) Can=Oboist

Pelletier, Wilfred (pel tyay)

Pena,
Paco (PAH koh PAIN yah)( - ) Flamenco Guitarist

PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA

Home Page

Pennario, Leonard (peh NAHR ee oh) (Buffalo, NY 9 JUL 1924 - ) P

HREF="http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/perahia_bio.htm">
Perahia,
Murray (peh RY ah)(19 APR - )Am=P

Pereira, Joe ( - )Am=Percussionist, NY Philharmonic CNN careers

Perenyi, Eszter (EHS ter PEH rehn yee)

Peres, Marcel ( -
)Ensemble Organum

Peress, Maurice (peh REHS)( - )Conductor,
educator & music researcher

Pergamenschikow, Boris (pehr gah MYEN shee kuf)( - )Cellist

Perkins, John ( - )Sitar

Site

Perlea, Jonel (YOH nel per LAY' ah)Roumanian=Con

Perlemuter, Vlado (Kaunas, 26 MAY 1904 - Paris, 4 SEP 2002)Pol-Fr=P

Obituary Biography

Obit from The Guardian (UK)

Perlman,
Itzhak (YITS ahk pearl man)
(31 AUG 1945 - )Is-Am=V-Cond-Detroit SO c.2000

Pertile, Aureliano (ow ray Lyah noh PER tee lay)

Pertis, Zsuzsa (ZHOO zhah PER teesh) ( - )Clavichord

Pesek, Libor (LEE bore PEH sheck) ( - )Czech=Con (22 JUN - )Czech=Con

Peskanov, Alexander (PES kah nof) ( - )Rus=P-Comp

Pesko, Zoltan (PESH' koh)( - )Cond.

Peters, Roberta ( - )Am=Sop, MET fill in debut 17 NOV 1950 (Don
Giovanni).

Petersen, Dennis (Iowa City, - )Am=Ten, MET 1994

Peterson, Dean (Davenport, IW - )Bass. MET debut 1999-2000

Petri,
Michala (PAY' tree, me KAH lah) (Copenhagen, 7 JUL 1968 - )DAN=REC

MUSIClassical Bio

Pfitzner, Hans (Erich) ( 5 MAY 1869 - 22 MAY 1949)Ger=Cond-Comp

Phelps,
Cynthia ( - ) =Violist

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
London

PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA, PA

Those fabulous
Philadelphians

PHILHARMONICA SLAVONICA - Recording group

Phillips, P (15 OCT - )Eng=Con

Piaf, Edith
(PEE' off) (19 DEC - )French = Singer

PIANITSKY CHORUS

Piatiagorsky, Gregor (GRAY gor pyah tee GOR skee) (1903 - 1976
)Rus-Am=Cel

Piccaluga, Nino ( 9 JUN 1890 -
)It=Ten

Pichaureau,
Claude (pee shore ROW')

Pickett, Phillip (17 NOV - )Eng=Con

Pido, Evelino (Turin, IT - )Conductor. MET debut 1999-2000

Pidoux, Roland (pee DOO') ( - ) cellist

Pierlot, Pierre (Pee air pyer LOH) ( - )Fr=oboist

Pigneguy, John (pee NAY gee) ( - )=con

Pili, Roberta ( - )=P

Pinnock,
Trevor (TREH ver PIN ik)(16 DEC - )Eng=Harpsc'd-Con

Pinza,
Ezio (A tsee oh PEEN zah) ( - )IT=TEN

Pires, Maria Joao (Mah REE ah YOH AH'ow Per ES')PORT=P-m=A. Dumay

Pirojenko,
Alexandre (St. Petersburg, 3 DEC 1979 - )Rus.=P

PITTSBURGH
SYMPHONY ORCH - Heinz
Hall (Previn, Steinburg, Maazel)

Pittsinger, David (Clinton, CN - )Am=Bass, MET 1997

Pizzaro, Arthur (17 AUG - )Port=P

Planes, Alain ( -
)FR=P

Plasson, Michel (2 OCT - )Fr=Con

Pletnev,
Mikhail (14 APR- )RUS=P-Con

Pletnev

Plishka, Paul (Old Forge, PA - )Am=Bass, MET 1996

Plowright, R (21 MAY - )Eng=Sop

Pluzhnikov, Constantin (Batumi, - )Georgia=Ten, MET 1997

Podles, Ewa (EH vah POHD lesch) ( - )Pol=Contralto Interview

Poell, Alfred (perl)( - )baritone

Poggi, Gianni (JON ee POH jee)

Pogorelich, Ivo (EE' voh poh goh RAY' lik) (20 OCT - )RUS=P

Polaski, Deborah (Richland Center, WI - )Am=Sop, MET 1992

Polenzani, Matthew (Evanston, - )Am=Ten, MET 1997

Pollini,
Maurizio (Moh REETZ ee oh Poh LEE nee) (5 JAN - )It=P

Pommier, J. B. (17 AUG - )Fr=P-Con

Pons, Josep ( - )

Pons, Juan (Ciutadella, - )Sp=Bar, MET 1983

Pons, Lily (12 APR - )Fr-Am=Sop

Ponselle,
Rosa ( - )Sop

Rosa Ponselle

Poole, J (5 FEB - )Eng=Con-Org

Pople, R (11 MAY - )NZ=Cel-Con

Popov, Vladimir (Moscow, - )Russia=Ten, MET 1984

Popp, Lucia (12 NOV - )Czecg-Austrian=Sop

Portilla, Alfredo (Mexico City, - )Mexico=Ten, 1998

Portugheis, Alberto (LaPlata 1 JAN - )Arg.=P

Postnikova, Viktoria (12 JAN - )Rus=P

Powers, William (Chicago, IL - )Bass-baritone. MET debut 1999-2000

PRAGUE MUSICI (prahg MOO zeh chee)

Pratt, Awadagin (Ah wah DODG in
Prat) ( - )Am=P

Pre'gardien, C (18 JAN - )Ger=Ten

Pressler, Menahem (meh NAH' hem PRES' ler) ( - )AM=P

Preston, Simon (4 AUG - )Eng=Org-Con

Pretre, George (Zhorg PRET' r) (14 AUG - )FR=C

Previn, Andre (6 APR - )Am=Con-P-Com m-Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter in NYC on 1 AUG 2002.

Prey, Herman (AIR mann PRY)(11 JUL 1929 - 22 JUL 1998 )Ger=Bar

HREF="http://www.classicalinsites.com/live/hallfame/featured/price/su_intro.html">
Price,
Leontyne (LAY un teen price)(10 FEB - )Am=Sop

Sopranos Page,
Price

Price, Dame M. (13 APR - )Welsh=Sop

Prieto, Carlos Miguel ( - )Mex-cond.

Primrose, William (23 AUG - )Scxot-Am-Am=V

Prinz, Alfred (prints) ( - )

Pritchard, John (5 FEB - )Eng=Con

Prohaska, Felix (Proh HAH' skah)=Con

Prokofiev, Serge (1891 - 1953)Rus.=P-Comp.

Protschka, J (5 FEB - )Czecg=Ten

Pruslin, S (16 APR - )Am=P

Pulley, Emily (Jackson, MI - )Am=Sop, MET 1994

Purdy, Kieth see: Ikaia-Purdy, Keith

Purvis, William (PUR vis) ( - )

Putilin, Nikolai (Saratov, - )Saratov, Russia=Bar, MET 1995

Puyana, Raphael (14 OCT - )Columbian=Harpsc'd

Performers Index ~ O

2009-10-11T10:46:00.000-05:00

Oberfrank, Geza ( GAY zah OH beh frahnk)cond

Obraztsova, Elena (yeh LAY
nah oh brahs TSOH vah)

Ochmann, Wieslaw (Vyeh swaf AWK mann)( - )Czech=ten

O'Conor, John ( 18 JAN - )IR=P

HREF="http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/oconnor_bio.htm">
O'Connor,
Mark ( _ )=V

ODENSE SYMPHONY (OH den sah)

O'Dette, Paul ( -
) Lute

Ogden, John (27 JAN - )ENG=P

Ognovenko, Vladimir ( - )Rus=Bass, MET 1980

Ohlsson, Garrick (3 APR - )Am=P

Oikawa, Koji ( -
)Jpn=P

Oistrakh, David (David OY strahk)(30 SEP - )Rus= Violinist (Father of
Igor)

Oistrakh, Igor (ee gohr OY strahk) (27 APR - )Rus= Violinist (Son of
David)

Olejniczak, Janusz ( - )POL=P

Olivera, Elmar ( - )V

Olivero, Magda (Maria Maddalena) (25 MAR 1912 - )It=Sop

Onczay, Csaba
(CHA bah OHN tsy) ( - ) cellist

Oprisanu, Carmen (Brasov, Romania - )Mezzo-soprano. MET debut 1999-2000

Oundjian, Peter (OON gin) ( - )Am=V=Cond. (Fecadistonia in hand, led to cond. career. Dir=
Caramoor Festival in NY. Former member Tokoyo SQ)

O'Neill, Dennis (25 FEB - )Welsh=Ten, MET 1986

ONDES MARTENOT
QUARTET of Montreal

Onslow,
George (AHN' slo)

Opalic, Marinko (MAH reen koh OH pah leech)

Oppens, Ursula (ER' soo lah AHP' ehns)( - )=P

Oppitz,
Gerhard (GAIR' hard OH' pitz) (1953 - )

ORADEA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA (oh rada ah) Romania City Site

Oramo, Sakari (sah KAR ay oh RAH moh) ( - )Japn=Con, Birmingham
SO

Orbelian, Constantine (KOHN stan teen or BEL ee in) (SF, - )Am=Cond-P

Biography
Also see Moscow Chamber Orch

ORCHESTRA of the AGE of
ENLIGHTENMENT based at South Bank Center, London and Bristol, England.

ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE - Paris

OREBRO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (oh REH bro)

O. R. F. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Austrian Radio
Symphony
- Vienna

ORFEO Orquesta de Camara Spain

Ormandy, Eugene (Budapest, 18 NOV 1899 - Philadelphia, 12 MAR 1985
)Hung-Am=Con-Phila Links Page

Ornstein, Leo (1895 - )Rus=P Award

ORQUESTA DE CONCIERTOS DE MADRID (or KAY stah day kon thee AIR tohz
day mah DREED)

ORQUESTA NACIONAL DE ESPANA (or KAY stah day nah thee oh NAHL day eh
SPAHN yah)

Ortega, Ginesa ( -
)flamenco cantaora

Ortiz, Christina (kris TEE nah or TEES) (17 APR - )Braz-Eng=P

Ostman, A (24 DEC - )Swed=Con

O'Sullivan, John
( - )Ire=Ten

Oswald, Mark ( - )Am=Bar, MET 1991

Otaka, Tedaki (8 NOV - )Japn=Con

Otey,
Louis (Flandreau, SD - )Baritone. MET debut 1999-2000

Oubradous,
Fernand (fir NAHND oo brah doos)

Oue, Eiji (AY jee OH way)=Con (Minnesota Orch)

Ousset, Cecile (suh SEEL oo SAY) (23 JAN - )Fr=P

Ozawa, Seiji (SAY gee oh ZAH wah) (1 SEP - )Japn=Con-Boston

Performers Index ~ N

2009-10-11T10:45:00.001-05:00

Nadler, Paul (Chicago, - )Am=Cond, MET 1989

Naegele, Philip (NAY' gah lee)

Nagano,
Kent ((nah GAH noh) (22 NOV - )AM=con

Nagy, Istvan-Zsolt (IST vahn zholt NAHzhh)

Nakamatsu, Jon (
- ) = P

Nakamura,
Hiroko (heh ROH' koh nah kah MOOR' ah)JPN=P

Naldi, Ronald (Bound-Brook, NJ - )Am=Ten, MET 1983

Nanut, Anton ( 13 SEP 1932 - )Slovenia=con

Nash, H (14 JUN - )Eng=ten

NATIONAL ARTS CENTER OCHESTRA OF CANADA

NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF FRANCE (See: ORCHESTRE NATIONAL
DE FRANCE

Natoli, Dominic ( - )It=Ten

NAUMBURG (NAWM berg)

Navarro, Garcia (Valencia, 30 APR 1941 - Madrid, 10 OCT 2001)Sp=Cond

NBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - NBC Radio, NYC - Toscanini

Neary,
Martin (28 MAR - )Eng=Org-Con

Neidich, Charles (NY dik) ( - )Am=Clar

SUNY Bio

Neidlinger, Gustav (GOO stahf NYD linger)

Neikrug, Mark (NYC, 24 SEP 1946 - )Am=Com-P-Cong

Neill, Stuart (East Point, GA - )Am=Ten, MET 1997

Neiman, Adam ( - )Am=P

Nelson, John (San Jose, Costa Rica 6 DEC - )Am=Cond, MET 1973

Nelson, J (10 SEP - ) Am=Sop

Nelsova, Zara (Canadian-American cellist)

Worked with Ernest Bloch and appeared with major orchestras in North America and Europe. (Winnipeg, 23 DEC 1918 - 10 OCT 2002).

Nemeth, Judit (YOO deet NAY meht)
Nero, Peter ( - )Am=P-Cond

Nesterenko, E (8 JAN - )Rus=Bass

Neumann, Vaclav (VAT' slaf NOY' mahnn) (29 OCT - )Czech=Con

Neveu, G (11 AUG - )Fr=V

NEVSKY STRING
QUARTET Russian SQ

HREF="http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/newman_anthony_bio.htm">
Newman,
Anthony (12 May 1941 - ) AM=H=P=O=C=Comp

NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA - London - now
PHILHARMONIA
ORCHESTRA (London freelancers recording group)

NEW ZEALAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - Wellington -

NEXUS
PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

Ney, Elly (1882 - 1968)P-Teacher

Nicolet, Aurele (oh REHL NIK oh lay) (22 JAN - )Sw=Fl

Nielsen, Wendy (Harvey Station, -)Canadian=Sop, MET 1997

Nikisch, Arthur ( 12 OCT 1855 - 23 JAN 1922)Austrian, Moravian-Hungarian=Cond

Nikolaeva, Tatiana (4 MAY 1924 - San Francisco, 13 NOV 1994)Russ=P

Nilsson, Birgit Biography (BEER
geet NEEL sohn) (9 MAY 1918 - 25 DEC 2005)Swed=sop

Nimsgren, S (14 JAN - )Ger=Bar

Nishizaki, Takako (tah KAH koh nee shee ZAH kee)

None Trio (noh NAY) Peter Sulski, violist; Violinist, Beth Ilana Schneider-Gould and Matt Gould, guitarist

Norberg-Schulz,
Elizabeth (Oslo, - )Norway=Sop, MET 1993

NORDDEUTSCHE PHILHARMONIK - North German Radio Philharmonic

NORDISLE BOIS ORCHESTRA (nor dil BWAH)

Norman, Jessye (15 SEP - )Am=Sop

Norrington, Roger (16 MAR - )Eng=Con

Norris, D. O. (16 JUN - )Eng=P

HREF="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rpassarj/guiomar.html">
Novaes,
Guiomar Ms. (gee oh MAHR noo VAHN ehsh)=P

NOVAL, Tara ( - ) =Violin

Nucci, Leo ( - )It=Bar, MET 1980

Nunez, Gerardo
(1961- )P=Flam.G=COMP

NURNBERG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (NURN berg)

Nyiregyhazi, Ervin (near eh HAH zee)( - ) P

NygAard, Jens ( - NYC, 24 SEP 2001)(Conductor of the Jupiter Symphony).
NY Times, Obit.

Nykrug, Mark (NY' kroog)see NEIKRUG