Vasily Petrenko
Chief Conductor EUYO, 2015 -
EUYO Chief Conductor
Born in St Petersburg, and educated at the St Petersburg Capella Boys Music School, the oldest music school in Russia, Vasily Petrenko studied at the St Pete...
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Bernard Haitink
Conductor Laureate EUYO, 2015-2021, Music Director EUYO, 1994 - 2000
Bernard Haitink was born and trained in Amsterdam. His conducting career began in 1954 at the Netherlands Radio, where he took part in their intensive conductors’ courses, and wh...
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Claudio Abbado
Founding Music Director EUYO, Music Director EUYO, 1976 - 1994
Claudio Abbado, 26 June 1933 – 20 January 2014 was an Italian conductor. One of the most celebrated and respected conductors of the 20th century, particularly in the music of Gus...
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Vladimir Ashkenazy
Music Director EUYO, 2000 - 2015, Conductor EUYO, 1987 -
One of the few artists to combine a successful career as a pianist and conductor, Russian-born Vladimir Ashkenazy inherited his musical gift from both sides of his family; his fa...
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Marin Alsop
Conductor
Marin Alsop is an inspiring and powerful voice, a conductor of vision and distinction who passionately believes that "music has the power to change lives". She is recognised inte...
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Daniel Barenboim
Conductor
Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine pianist and conductor. Currently, he is general music director of La Scala in Milan, the Berlin State Opera, and the Staatskapelle Berlin; he pre...
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Leonard Bernstein
Conductor
Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990 was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated...
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Herbert Blomstedt
Conductor
Herbert Blomstedt (born July 11, 1927) is a Swedish conductor. Blomstedt was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and two years after his birth, his Swedish parents moved the famil...
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James Conlon
Conductor
James Conlon, one of today’s most versatile and respected conductors, has cultivated a vast symphonic, operatic and choral repertoire. He has conducted virtually every major Amer...
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Sir Colin Davis
Conductor
Colin Davis became one of the world's best-known conductors during the last four decades of the 20th century. He was particularly well known for his recordings of Berlioz and Sib...
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Stéphane Denève
Conductor
Stéphane Denève is Music Director of the Brussels Philharmonic, Principal Guest Conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, Music Director Designate (19/20) of the St. Louis Symphon...
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Iván Fischer
Conductor
One of the most prominent Hungarian conductors of his generation, Iván Fischer has established a reputation in both Hungarian and Baroque music. His interpretations of works by L...
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Carlo Maria Giulini
Conductor
Carlo Maria Giulini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (9 May 1914 – 14 June 2005) was an Italian conductor. From the age of five, when he began to play the violin, Giulini’s musical ...
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Sascha Goetzel
Conductor
The Viennese conductor Sascha Goetzel has crafted a global reputation as a music director and guest conductor known for his commitment to explore sound and repertoire through dyn...
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Pablo Heras-Casado
Conductor
Pablo Heras-Casado enjoys an unusually varied and broad-ranging career, encompassing the great symphonic and operatic repertoire, historically informed performances, and contempo...
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Manfred Honeck
Conductor
Born in Austria, Manfred Honeck received his musical training at the Academy of Music in Vienna. Many years of experience as a member of the viola section in the Vienna Philharmo...
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Raphael Kubelík
Conductor
Rafael Jeroným Kubelík (29 June 1914 – 11 August 1996) was a Czech-born conductor and composer.
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Pekka Kuusisto
Conductor and Violinist
Violinist, conductor and composer Pekka Kuusisto is renowned for his artistic freedom and fresh approach to repertoire. Widely recognised for his flair in directing ensembles, Ku...
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Lorin Maazel
Conductor
A second-generation American, born in Paris on March 6, 1930, Lorin Maazel began violin lessons at age five and conducting lessons at age seven. He studied with Vladimir Bakalein...
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Zubin Mehta
Conductor
Zubin Mehta was born in 1936 in Bombay and received his first musical education under his father’s Mehli Mehta’s guidance who was a noted concert violinist and the founder of the...
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Gianandrea Noseda
Conductor
Gianandrea Noseda is one of the world’s most sought-after conductors, equally recognized for his artistry in both the concert hall and opera house. He is the National Symphony Or...
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Mstislav Rostropovich
Conductor
Mstislav Leopoldovich "Slava" Rostropovich, KBE (March 27, 1927 – April 27, 2007), was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor. He is considered to be one of the greatest cell...
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Conductor
Gennady Rozhdestvensky, one of today’s greatest conductors, was born in Moscow in 1931. He studied the piano with Lev Oborin and conducting with his father, Nikolaï Anosov, at th...
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Kurt Sanderling
Conductor
Kurt Sanderling, CBE (19 September 1912 – 17 September 2011) was a German conductor.
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Sir Georg Solti
Conductor
Sir Georg Solti was one of this century’s most brilliant conductors and a leading figure of musical culture in Europe and the US. The great Maestro made his first recordings for ...
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Xian Zhang
Conductor
Born in Dandong, China, Xian Zhang made her professional conducting debut at the Central Opera House in Beijing at the age of 20. She was appointed as the New York Philharmonic’s...
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