Category: conductorDocs

Jeffrey Tate

Jeffrey Tate

Sir Jeffrey Philip TateCBE (28 April 1943 – 2 June 2017) was an English conductor of classical music. Tate was born with spina bifida and had an associated spinal curvature. After studying medicine at the University of Cambridge and beginning a medical career in London, he switched to music and worked under Georg Solti at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, before making his conducting debut in 1979 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. He held conducting appointments with the English Read more [...]
Jany Renz

Jany Renz

During his international career as Lied accompanist and chamber musician he was partner of leading Lied singers and leading instrumentalists. He studied conducting with Wilfried Boettcher in Basel. Master classes with Leonard Bernstein and Sergiu Celibidache completed his studies. He was chief conductor of the symphony orchestra Dornach/Switzerland. His career began in Italy where he became first maestro and artistic vice director. Later he spent a long time in South Korea as director Read more [...]
Samuel Wong

Samuel Wong

Samuel Wong (Chinese: 黃大德) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian conductor and ophthalmologist [1]. Trained at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons,[1] Dr. Wong is an eye surgeon practicing in Manhattan and Brooklyn. In another career, he has conducted many international orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Seattle and Houston Symphonies, Toronto and Montreal Symphonies, Read more [...]
Boyd Neel

Boyd Neel

Louis Boyd NeelO.C. (19 July 1905 – 30 September 1981) was an English, and later Canadian conductor and academic. He was Dean of the Royal Conservatory of Music at the University of Toronto. Neel founded and conducted chamber orchestras, and contributed to the revival of interest in baroque music and in the 19th and 20th Century string orchestra repertoire. Neel was born in Blackheath, London, and wanted to be a pianist as a child.[2] His mother, Ruby Le Couteur, was a professional Read more [...]
Giuseppe Sinopoli

Giuseppe Sinopoli

Giuseppe Sinopoli (Italian pronunciation: [dʒuˈzɛppe siˈnɔːpoli]; 2 November 1946 – 21 April 2001)[1] was an Italian conductor and composer. Sinopoli was born in Venice, Italy, and later studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice under Ernesto Rubin de Cervin and at Darmstadt, including being mentored in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen.[citation needed] He also obtained a degree in medicine from Read more [...]
Domingo Federico

Domingo Federico

Domingo Serafín Federico (4 June 1916, in Buenos Aires – 16 April 2000) was an Argentine bandoneon player, songwriter and actor.[1] Nombre real: Federico, Domingo Serafín Bandoneonista, director, compositor y docente (4 junio 1916 - 6 abril 2000) Lugar de nacimiento:Buenos Aires Argentina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeZDuCHJ0F8&t=20s web wikipedia DEwikipedia ES youtube - vimeo facebook - twitter - instagram work Read more [...]
Wolfgang Ellenberger

Wolfgang Ellenberger

piano = Handgepäck | hand luggage Wolfgang Ellenberger, the author of this web site has studied also piano diploma and concert exam besides music therapy.1987-1989 he worked at the ballet of the Scala of Milano as pianist.1994 debut as conductor with the Sibirian State orchestra Kemerovo. In the nineties he conducted three choirs and in the opera project Magic Flute.He has lived three years of his life in a camper on camping sites.He invented several things: piano-lift-hydraulics, piano fingering Read more [...]
Otmar Desch

Otmar Desch

Dear Mr. Ellenberger!Thank you for your activity to bring together the right people. TO support your work and simplify it herewith you get my permission to use any material from my homepage( www.desch-musicproduction.de ). I feel you have the right touch to present colleagues at www.DoctorsTalents.com . There is little to say about my professional career. Music, piano and composition studies were runing parallel with the medical studies.....[remark from Wolfgang Ellenberger: Read more [...]
Johannes Havla

Johannes Havla

The founder and conductor of the Medizinerchor Erlangen is Johannes Havla, a A-class church musician and concert organist (Hochschule für Musik Detmold, master-class Prof. G. Weinberger). With an vocal ensemble "TonArt" built from the Regensburger Domspatzen he won a 1st prize at the international choir festival in Apeldoorn/Netherlands. He performed with the German-American Doctors Orchestra -NMMG and guests- an organ concerto at the Frankfurt medical faculty as conductor and much Read more [...]