A trip to a big music store in Portland followed soon after, when he was still age 10 or so, and his dad purchased Beethoven ...

The renowned composer has scored many of the most famous films of our time. But until this summer, he had never attempted a ...

His mother was cellist Lotte Brott (née Goetzel) and his father was violinist-composer-conductor Alexander Brott, founder of the McGill Chamber Orchestra (now the Orchestre classique de Montréal).

Then again, you might say that the seeds of Victor Feldbrill’s career as a conductor were sown even earlier, at a rehearsal of the Harbord Collegiate Orchestra, when the teacher-conductor handed ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook The legacy of this composer and conductor may not be in his rarely performed works, but in how we think about music itself. Pierre Boulez in 1971, the ...

Marvin E. Laird, the acclaimed composer, conductor, and musical director, passed away December 2 at age 85 from natural causes. “My beloved Marvin had impeccable style, a delicious sense of ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Bramwell Tovey, the London-born composer and conductor who’s been the principal conductor and artistic director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra since 201 ...

In mid-June, Finnish-born conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen led the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus in Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in his final program as music director, after five ...

The composer is also a conductor at the Cairo Opera House and director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Arts Centre (where he is also principal conductor and artistic director of the BA Orchestra).

Egypt’s music scene lost Ali Osman, Sudanese composer, conductor, educator and a man whose work with Al Nour Wal Amal, the visually impaired and blind women orchestra was among his most precious ...

Victor Feldbrill, principal conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra from 1958-68, founder of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and tireless champion of music by Canadian composers, died on ...