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George Cleve

  • Serkin, Brahms & Tchaikovsky

 George Cleve was born in Vienna and at the age of four moved to New York with his family. He received his musical training at the High School of Music and Art, and the Mannes College of Music, where he studied viola with Paul Doktor, chamber mu... Click here for complete biography

Wilson Hermanto

  • Symphonie Espagnole

The American conductor Wilson Hermanto has a number of successful debuts to his credit, most recently with Orchestre national de Lyon in May 2012 in a program that included the rarely performed original version of Edgard Varèse Amérique... Click here for complete biography

James Holmes

  • Kurt Weill: Berlin, Paris, New York

JAMES HOLMES has enjoyed a full and extremely varied career as conductor, accompanist, and arranger. While much of his work has been in the opera house - firstly as principal coach/resident conductor with English National Opera an... Click here for complete biography

Peter Jaffe

  • Verdi's Requiem
  • Sounds of Summer
  • The Wild Wild West
  • A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

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Paul Polivnick

  • Beethoven's 5th
  • An American In Paris

Paul Polivnick has been one of our most consistent guests on the podium due in large part to the wide range of materials at which he excels. He has brought four world premieres to our audiences, including SCENES by Jon Magnussen in our very firs... Click here for complete biography

Elena Sharkova

  • Bluegrass Meets Choral
  • Carols In The California
  • The Best of the British Romantics

Russian-American conductor Elena Sharkova is recognized nationally and internationally as an inspirational, versatile, and effective conductor, choral clinician, music educator, and lecturer. She has conducted professional, university, youth, and com... Click here for complete biography

Tatsuya Shimono

  • A Hero's Tale

Born in Kagoshima in 1969, Tatsuya Shimono cemented his international reputation as a conductor by winning First Prize at the 47th Besançon International Competition in 2001. Since then he has guest conducted major orchestras in Japan and a... Click here for complete biography

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