Performers Index ~ B

  • Babin, Viktor (13 DEC - )Rus=p-comp
  • Bachauer, Gina (21 MAY - )(GEE' nah BAHK' how er)Gr=P
  • Bachir, Munir IRAQ=Oud ( - OCT 1997
  • Bachmann,
    Maria     ( - )=V

  • Bachmann,
    Robert     ( - )Ger=Con
  • Baciu, Ion (yohn BAH choo) ( - )Rumanian=Con
  • Backhaus,
    Wilhelm     (VIL helm BAHK house) (26 MAR 1884 -
    1969)Ger=Pianist
  • Bacquier, Gabriel (gah bree EL BAH kee a) ( - )Fr=bar.
  • BADEN-BADEN RADIO ORCHESTRA (BAH din BAH din) Germany
  • Badura-Skoda, Paul (bah DOOR' ah SKO' dah)(6 OCT - )Austrian=P
  • Bailey, N (23 MAR - )SAfr=baritone
  • Baillie, A (6 JAN - )Eng=Cel
  • Baillie, Dame Isobel (9 MAR - )Scot=sop
  • Baker, Gregg (Memphis, - )Am bar, MET 1985
  • Baker, Dame Janet (21 AUG - )Eng=MezzSop
  • Baker, Julius (Cleveland, OH 23 SEP 1915 - 6 AUG 2003 )
    Principal flutist of the New York Philharmonic for 18 years, died at age 87.
  • Baker, (Tulsa, - )Am=Ten, MET 1986
  • Balanchine, George (jorg BAH lun cheen) ( - )Soviet=Con-Choreg.
  • BALANESCU QUARTET (Bah lah NESS koo)
  • Baldwin, Dalton ( 19 DEC - )Am=P
  • Balli,
    Heinz     (hyntz BAH lee) ( - )Ger=Organist
  • Balogh, Josef (YOH zef BAH lohg) ( - )Hung=
  • Balter, Alan ( - 21 AUG 1998)Am=Con-Cl Photo
  • BALTIMORE
    SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
  • Baltsa, Agnes ( 19 NOV - )Gr=MezzoSop

  • BAMBERG PHILHARMONIC (BAM berg) Germany
  • Bamboschek, Giuseppe (joo SEP' pee BAM' boh shek) ( - )
  • Bamert, Mattius (5 JUL - )Swiss=Cond

  • Banchini, Chiara     ( - )=V
  • Banowetz,
    Joseph     (BAN oh wets) ( - )Am=P
  • Bar, Alwin (AHL vin bair)Ger
  • Bar,
    Olaf     (19 DEC - )Ger=Bar
  • Bar-Niv, Rami

    Bar-Niv, Rami ( - )Is=P
  • Barbieri,
    Fedora     (fay DOR' ah bar BYAIR' ee) ( Trieste, 4 JUN 1920 - 4 MAR 2003)IT=MezSop
      BARBIERI (Italian Mezzo Soprano). One of the finest voices of Italian opera, with triumphs at La Scala in Milan, New York's Metropolitan Opera and London's Covent Garden.
      Andante, Obituary

  • Barbirolli, E (24 JAN - )Eng=Oboe
  • Barbirolli,
    John     (bar beh ROW lee) (London, 2 DEC 1899 - London, 29
    JUL 1970)ENG=Cond-cellist
  • Barboteu, Georges (jorg bar boh toh) ( - )Eng=
  • Barenboim, Daniel (DAHN yel BAH ren boim) ( 15 NOV
    - )Argentina-Isr=P=C
  • Bardon, Pierre (pee yair bar DOHn) ( - )Fr=
  • Bargel, Wolfgang (VOLF gahng BAR gul) ( - )Ger=
  • Barlow, Howard ( - )Am=Cond
  • Barlow, Jeremy ( - )Eng=
  • Barlow, S ( 30 JUN - )Eng=Cond

  • Barrenechea-Cabeza two pianos duo     Clavel Cabeza Peñalba - Mar G. Barrenechea
  • Barrueco, Manuel (man WELL bar WAY koh)( - )=G
  • Barsony, Laszlo (LAH slow BAR shon (eh) ( - )Hung=
  • Barshai, Rudolf ( 28 SEP - )Rus= Cond-violist
  • Barstow, Dame Josephine (27 SEP - )Eng=Sop
  • Barta, Jiri (YEER-zhee BAHR-tah)( 1964 - )Czech cellist
  • Barto, Tzimon (TSEE mohn BAR toh) ( 2 JAN - )Am=P
  • Bartoletti, Bruno ( 10 JUN - )It=Cond

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

    Cecilia Bartoli Fan
    Club


    Cecilia Bartoli
    - Biography
  • Bashir, Munir
    (Moo NEAR'
    bah SHEER') Iraqui=OUD ( - OCT 1997)
  • Bashmet,
    Yuri     (24 JAN - )Rus=Violist
  • Bastiani, Ettore (AY' tor ay BAH'styah nee nee)
  • Bastistini, Mattia (MAH' tee ah baht tes TEE' nee)
  • Bate, J ( 11 NOV - )Eng=O
  • Batiz, Enrique (Ahn REE' kay BAH' teez) ( 4 MAY - )Mex=C
  • HREF="http://www.celebsite.com/people/kathleenbattle/index.html">Battle,
    Kathleen (13 AUG - )Am=Sop

    K. Battle,
    Sony Classical Bio
  • Baudo, Serge (1927 - )Fr=Con
  • Bauer, Harold (1873 - 1951)AM=Violinist-Pianist
  • Bauer-Theussl, Franz (BOW'er TOY suhl) ( - )Con
  • Baumann, Hermann (HEHR mann BOW man) ( - )Ger
  • Baumann, Jorg (yairg BOW man) ( - )Ger=
  • BAYERISCHEN RUNDFUNKS SYMPHONIE-ORCHESTER = Bavarian Radio Symphony
    Orchestra (by' er EES CHin ROOND funks) BAYERN-Bavaria (BY earn) So
    Germany.
  • HREF="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/isabel_bayrakdarian">Bayrakdarian, Isabel ( - )sop
  • BAYREUTH MUSIC FESTIVAL (BY' roit) Bavaria, Germany.
  • Hugh Bean born in (Beckenham, Kent, 22 SEP 1929 - 26 DEC 2003.
    See Margaret Campbell's obituary in London Guardian
    January 01 2004

    Hugh Bean was for more than half a century one of Britain's most distinguished and versatile violinists. From recording with the bands of Geraldo and Billy Cotton, he went on to lead the Philharmonia Orchestra. ~ age 74.
  • BEAUX ARTS TRIO (boh ZAR)
  • Bechi, Gino (JEE' no BECK' ee)

  • Becker, Reinhold     ( - )Ger=ten
  • Bedford, S ( 31 JUL - )Eng=C-P

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


  • Beer, Lucille (NYC, - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1982
  • Behle, Renate ( - ) Soprano, Treaist, Austria. MET debut 1999-2000
  • Behrend, Sigfreid (ZEEG' freed BAIR' andt)
  • Behrens, Hildegard (Oldenburg, 9 FEB - )Ger=Sop, MET 1976
  • Belkin, Boris (26 JAN - )Rus=V
  • BELL, Derek (Irish Celtic Harpist) (Belfast, 21 OCT 1935 - NYC, 15 OCT 2002)
      30-year member of the Celtic music band The Chieftains. Obit, NY Times.


  • Bell, Joshua     (JOSH wa bel) (9 DEC -
    )Bloomington, IN; Am=V
  • Bellugi, David
    (beh
    LOO gee) ( - )Recorder
  • Benda, Frantisek (FRAHN' teh check BEN' dah)
  • Bender, Jan Oscar (3 FEB 1909 - 29 DEC 1994) Organist
  • Benini, Maurizio (Faenza, - )It=Con, MET 1998
  • Benitez, Maria (Taos, - )Am=Dancer, MET 1997
  • Bennett, Robert Russell (15 JUN 1894 - NYC, 18 AUG 1981)Ciomp, Arranger,
    Cond.
  • Benson,
    Clifford    ( - )Eng=P
  • Benyacs, Zoltan (ZOL tan BEN yahch) ( - )Hung=violist

  • BEOGRAD    - Belgrade (BAY oh grahd) Serbian capital
  • Berberian, Kathy (ber BEH ree an) ( - )Sop. French
  • Berezovsky,
    Boris     (beh reh ZOFF skee) ( - )Rus=P
  • Berezovsky, Nicolai (1900 - 1953 )Rus-Am=V
  • Berkes, Kalman (KAL mann BER kesh) ( - )Hung=clarinet

  • Berganza,
    Teresa     (Vargas) (teh RAY zah Ber GAHN zah) (16 MAR - )Sp=MezSop
  • Bergeson, Scott (St. Charles, IL; - )Am=Cond, MET 1998
  • Berglund, Paavo (14 APR - )Fin=Con
  • Bergonzi, Carlo (bare GON' zee) (13 JUL - )It=Ten
  • Berman, Bart
    Dutch=P
  • Berman, Lazar (LAH zar BER' man) (Leningrad, 26 FEB 1930 - Florence, IT 6 FEB 2005)Rus=P
  • Bernac, P (12 JAN - )Fr=Bar
  • Bernard, Andre (ahn DRAY ber NAR) ( - )Fr=
  • Bernstein, Leonard (BERN' styn)AM=C=P=Comp.
    HREF="http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/bernstein_bio.htm">

    L.Bernstein, Sony Classical, bio
  • Bernstein, Richard (Brooklyn, - )Am=Bass-Bar, MET 1995
  • Beroff, Michel (mee SHELL BEH roff) (9 MAY - )Fr=P-Con
  • Berry, Walter (8 APR 1929 - Vienna, 27 OCT 2000)Austrian=Bass-Bar
  • Bertini, Gary (1 MAY - )Isr=Con-Com
  • Bertocci, Aldo (AHL' doh behr TOT' chee)( - )ten
  • Besnard, Guy (gee beh NAR) ( - )Fr=
  • Best, Michael (Durham, 6 FEB - )Am=Ten, MET 1979
  • Best, Michael ( - )Eng-Con
  • Betancourt,
    Rodolfo     ( - )
  • Beznosiuk, Lisa (LEE sah bez noh SEEOOK) ( - )
  • Bezrodny, Sergei (sir GAY byez ROD nee) ( - )Rus=
  • Bezzubenkov, Gennady ( - )Bass, Ulianovsk, Russia. MET debut 1999-2000
  • BIALYSTOK
    (byah WIH stok) State Philharmonic Orchestra of Poland
  • Bicket, Harry ( - )Eng=Cond.
  • BIEDERMEIER ENSEMBLE WIEN Germany (BEE der myer ahn SALM bul VEEN)
  • Biegel,
    Jeffrey
    ( - )Am=P



  • Biggs, E. Power ( - )Am=Organist
  • Bigot, Eugene (BEE' goh)
  • Bilgram, Hedwig (HEAD wig BILL grum) ( - )
  • Billock, Brent ( -
    )Am=ten
  • Bilson, Malcolm (MAL kum BILL son) (24 OCT - )Am=Harpsic-P
  • Bingham, Seth (Bloomfield, NJ 16 APR 1882 - NYC, 21 JUN
    1972)Am=Organist-Com

  • Binns,
    Malcolm     (29 JAN - )Eng=P

  • Biret, Idil     (EE
    dil BEE ret) ( - )Hung=P
  • Birkeland, Oystein (OY stain BEER keh land) ( - )Norwegian=cellist
  • Bisengaliev, Marat (MAH raht bih sen GAH lef) ( - )Rus=violinist
  • Bishop-Kovacevich, Stephen (LA, 17 OCT 1940 - )Am=P
  • HREF="http://www.fastnet.it/servizi/utenti/sciocchetti">
    Bjorling,
    Jussi (YEW' see BYER' ling) (5 FEB 1911 - 9 SEP 1960)SWE=TEN

    Jussi
    Bjorling ~ Tenorland

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

  • Blanchard, Terence     ( -
    )Am=Trumpet
  • Blatt, Josef (20 Oct 1906 - Green Valley, AZ 2 Mar 1999)Comp-P-Prof U of Mich.1952-1956
  • Blech, H (2 MAR - )Eng=Con-V
  • Blech, Leo (LAY' oh BLEK) ( - )P
  • Blegen, Judith (BLAY gin) ( - ) =sop
  • Blomstedt, Herbert (BLOOM stedt) (11 JUL - )Am-Swed=Cond
  • Bloom, Myron ( - )
  • Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fanny (1863 - 1927)Am-Pianist
  • Blume, Norbert ( - )
  • Blumenthal, Felicja (Feh LEE' sha BLOO' men thal ( -
    1997)AM=P
  • Blythe, Stephanie (Mongaup Valley, NY; - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1995
  • Boatwright, Helen ( - )Sop-Teacher
  • Boatwright, Howard (Newport News, VA 16 MAR 1918 - 20 FEB
    1999)V-Cond-Com-Teacher
  • Bocelli, Andrea ( -
    )IT=Ten
  • Boehm, T (9 APR - )Ger=flute crafter
  • Bogaard, Ed (BOH kard) ( - )Danish=Sax
  • Bogachov, Vladimir (Moscow, - )Rus-Ten, MET 1994
  • Bogatcheva, Irina (St.Petersburg, - )Rus=Mez-Sop, MET 1998
  • Bohm, Karl (be(r)m) (28 AUG - )Austrian=Con

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

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

  • Boldachev, Sasha
    ( - )Rus-harpist
  • Bolet, Jorge (jhorjh boo LET') ( 15 NOV - 1995)Cuban-Am=P
  • BOLOGNA (bah LOAN yah) Italy
  • BOLSHOI BALLET, ORCHESTRA, OPERA, THEATER - (Bahl SHOY) Russian
    company and Theater, Founded in Moscow, 1825.
  • Bonel, Carlos (KAR los boh NELL) ( - )
  • Bonfiglio,
    Robert     (bohn
    FEE lee oh) ( - )Am=Harmonica
  • Bonn, James ( - ) =P
  • Bonney, Barbara (Montclair, NJ; 14 APR - )Am= Soprano, MET 1989
  • Bonynge, Richard Alan (BAH' ning) (29 SEP 1930 - )AUSTRALIAN=C-P
  • Booth, Philip (Washington, D.C; - )Am=Bass, MET 1975
  • Borg, Kim (Helsinki, 7 AUG 1919- 28 APR 2000)Swed-Fin Bass-Baritone, Composer
  • Borge, Victor (BORE' gah) (3 JAN 1909 - 23 DEC 2000 )Dan=P-humorist
  • Borgue, Daniel (DAH nyel BORG) ( - )
  • Borkh, Inge (ING' geh BORK)
  • Borodina, Olga (bah rah dee NAH)(St. Petersburg, - )Rus=Mez-Sop, MET
    1997
  • Borowska, Joanna (yoh AHN ah boh ROF shak) ( - )
  • Boru, Brian (boh ROO) ( - )Ir (March named for him)
  • Boskovsky, Willie (VIL ee bos KOF skah) (16 JUN - )Austrian=C-V
  • BOSTON POPS of the
    Boston Sym
  • BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
  • HREF="http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artists/bostridge.html">
    Bostridge,
    Ian ( - )Eng=ten
    HREF="http://www.emiclassics.com/artists/biogs/bostb.html">Ian Bostridge,
    EMI Classics
  • Bott, C
    (11 SEP - )Eng=Sop
  • Botstein, Leon ( - )Am-Cond, American Sym Orch; pres, Bart School NY
  • BOTTESINI DUO
  • Botvay, Karoly (KAH roy BOHT vee) ( - )Hung=cellist
  • Boughton, William (BOT' en) ( - )Eng=Con Founded ENGLISH S O (1980)
  • Boulanger, Nadia (NAH' dee ah boo lahn jhay)FR=P=Teacher=C
  • Boulez, Pierre (Boo LEZ') (26 MAR - ) Fr=Con-Com
  • Boult, Adrian (Sir) (AYD ree ahn BOLT) (8 APR - )Eng=Con
  • Bour, Ernest (bower) ( - )Dan=Con
  • Bourne, Jean-Luc (zhahn luk BORN) ( - )Fr
  • BOURNEMOUTH SINFONIETTA(BORN Mith) England
  • Bourgeois, D (16 OCT - )Eng=Con-Com
  • Bourgue, Maurice (BOORg) ( - )oboe
  • Boutros, Kamel (Cairo, - )Egptian=Bar, MET 1997
  • Bowden, Pamela (25 APR 1925 - 8 APR 2003)Br-contralto
  • Bowen, York (BOH win) (1884-1961)Eng=P-Com
  • Bower, David (5 FEB 1969 - )A=G=VOC
  • Bower, David ( - )Organist
  • Bower, Kevin (BOY er) ( - )
  • Bowman, J (6 NOV - )Eng=CounTen
  • Boyd, Douglas
    ( - )cond.-oboe
  • Boyd, Liona (lee OH nah) ( - )Can=G

  • Boyk, James     ( - )Am=P
  • Brabec, Emanuel (eh MANN oo el BRA bets) ( - )Czech=cellist
  • Brailowsky, Alexander (bray LOF' skee)
  • Brain, Dennis (17 MAY - )Eng=Horn-Organ
  • Brainin, Norbert (12 MAR 1923 - 11 APR 2005)Austrian-Eng=V
  • Braithwaite, Nicholas (26 AUG - )Eng=Con
  • Bramma, H (11 NOV - )Eng=Org-Con-Writer
  • Braun, Victor ( - 6 JAN 2001 )(Canadian baritone) Acclaimed for his portrayal of
    Golaud in the premiere run of the MET's production of PELLEAS.
    BIO in French
  • BRATISLAVA (BRA teh slah vah) Slovakian capital.
  • Brautigam, Ronald ( )P
  • Bream,
    Julian     (breem) (15 JUL - )Eng=G-lute
  • BREDA MUSIC INSTITUTE Breda, (BRAY dah) Holland
  • Brediclanu, Milai (MEE hi Bray dee CHAH noo) ( - )Roumanian=Con
  • Brembeck, Christian (BREM bek KREES ty ahn) ( - )Ger=Cond
  • HREF="http://www.philclas.polygram.nl/class/aa-b/brendel.htm">
    Brendel,
    Alfred (BREN' dul) (5 JAN - )Austrian=P
  • Bresciani, Paul ( - )Am=Cellist
  • Brey, Carter (BRAY) ( - )Am=Cel (NY phil)
  • BRIDGER TRIO
  • BRNO (BER noh) Czech Republic
  • Brockway, Howard (Brooklyn, NY, 1870 - 1951)Am-Pianist, opera
    transcriber
  • HREF="http://www.sonyclassical.com/artists/bronfman_top.htm">
    Bronfman,
    Yefim ( - ) Isr=P


    Y. Bronfman,
    Sony
    Classical Biog
  • Brown, Bruce ( - )

  • Brown,
    Ian     ( - )Eng=P
  • Brown, Iona (Eye OH nah) (Salisbury, 7 JAN 1941 - 5 JUN 2004)Eng=Con-V
  • Brown, Stephen ( Nottingham, Eng. - )Can

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


  • HREF="http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artists/brownridge.html">
    Brownridge,
    Angela ( - )Eng=P
  • BRT PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA - Belgian Radio and
    Television
  • Brubaker, Robert (Elisabethtown, Pa; - )Am=Ten, MET 1993
  • BRUGES(Broozh) Belgium
  • Bruggen, Franz (BROO' gin) (30 OCT 1934 - )Dutch=Recorder-Cond
  • Brunelle, Philip (1 JUL - )Am=Con
  • Brunner, Eduard (Broo ner)Dan=
  • Bruscantini, Sesto ( - 4 MAY 2003)It Bass-Baritone

    ~ age 83.

  • Brusilov, Anshel (AHN shel BROO seh lof) ( - )Am=V (Phila O)
  • Bruson, Renato (Broo ZOHN) (13 JAN - )It=Bar
  • Brymer, Jack (BRY mer) ( 27 JAN 1915 - 16 SEP 2003 )Eng=Clar
  • Bryn-Julson, Phyllis (brin JOOL sun) (5 FEB - )Am=Sop
  • Buchanan, I (15 MAR - )Scott=Sop
  • Buchbinder, Rudolph (BOOK' bin ter)( 1 DEC - )Austrian=P
  • Buechner, Sara Davis ( - )Pianist
  • BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC
    ORCHESTRA
  • Buketoff, Igor (1915- ) Cond.
  • Bulow, Hans Von (Hahns fon BOO low) (1830 - 1894 )Ger=Comp-P-Con
  • Bumbry, Grace (BUM bree) (4 JAN - )Am=Sop
  • Bunell, Jane (Madison, NJ - ) Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1991
  • Burchuladze, P (12 FEB - )Georgian=Bass
  • Burden, William ( - )Am=ten
  • Burdick, James Owen (BER dick) ( - )
  • Burchinal, Frederick (Wichita, - )Am=Bar, MET 1974
  • Burchuladze, Paata (Tbilsi, Georgia; - )Rus=Bass, MET 1989
  • Burgess, S (9 OCT - )S.Afr=MezSop
  • Burney, C (7 APR - )Eng=Writer
  • HREF="http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/artists/burnside.html">
    Burnside,
    Iain ( - )Eng-P
  • Burrowes, Norma (24 APR - )Eng=Sop

  • Burrows, Stuart     (7 FEB - )Welsh=Ten



    Stuart Burrows, Tenorland Site
  • Busch, Adolph (8 AUG - )Ger=V
  • Busch, Fritz (Bush) (13 MAR 1890 - 1951)Ger=Con
  • Busoni,
    Ferruccio    (1866 - 1924)It=Pianist-Comp.
  • Buyse, Leone (lay OH nah BUY sul) ( - )Dan=flute
  • Bybee, Luretta (San Antonio, - )Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1998
  • Bychkov, Semion (seem YOHN Bitch KOFF) (30 NOV - )Rus=Con
  • BYDGOSZCZ (BID gosh) City in Poland
  • Bylsma, Anner(AH ner BY lz
    mah)(17 FEB 1944 - )Dutch=Cel
  • Byrd, Richard L. ( -
    )