Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin was a Soviet and Russian conductor. People's Artist of the USSR (1972).
Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and conductor emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Leonard Edward Slatkin is an American conductor, author and composer.
Evgeny Igorevich Kissin is a Russian-born concert pianist and composer. He became a British citizen in 2002 and an Israeli citizen in 2013. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has a wide repertoire and is especially known for his interpretations of the works of the Romantic era, particularly those of Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Modest Mussorgsky and Ludwig van Beethoven. He is commonly viewed as a great successor of the Russian piano school because of the depth, lyricism and poetic quality of his interpretations.
Leon Botstein is a Swiss-born American conductor, educator, and scholar serving as the President of Bard College.
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is a major Israeli symphony orchestra based in Tel Aviv. Its principal concert venue is Heichal HaTarbut.
Yuri Abramovich Bashmet is a Russian conductor, violinist, and violist.
The Portland Youth Philharmonic (PYP) is the oldest youth orchestra in the United States, established in 1924 as the Portland Junior Symphony (PJS). Now based in Portland, Oregon, the orchestra's origin dates back to 1910, when music teacher Mary V. Dodge began playing music for local children in Burns, Oregon. Dodge purchased instruments for the children and organized the orchestra, which would become known as the Sagebrush Symphony Orchestra. After touring the state, including a performance at the Oregon State Fair in Salem, the orchestra disbanded in 1918 when Dodge moved to Portland. There, Dodge opened a violin school and became music director of the Irvington School Orchestra.
Dmitri Georgievich Kitayenko is a Soviet and Russian conductor. He was bestowed the title People's Artist of the USSR (1984).
Hugh MacPherson Wolff is an American conductor. He was chief conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
Shmuel Ashkenasi is an Israeli violinist and teacher.
Apo Hsu or Hsu Ching-hsin is a conductor born in Taiwan and resident of both Taiwan and the United States. Hsu served as music director of the National Taiwan Normal University Symphony Orchestra and the Springfield Symphony Orchestra in Springfield, Missouri. Her past appointments include serving as artistic director of The Women's Philharmonic in San Francisco, California, and conductor of the Oregon Mozart Players in Eugene, Oregon. She has been a mentor for many young conductors on both sides of the world through her work at NTNU and at The Conductor's Institute at Bard College in New York. Her performances have been featured in national broadcasts in the United States, Taiwan, and Korea.
Boris Davidovich Belkin is a Soviet-born violin virtuoso.
Mikhail Simonyan is a violinist from Novosibirsk. He began to study the violin at the age of five. In 1999, when he was at the age of 13, Simonyan made his New York debut at Lincoln Center with the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra (ARYO) and his debut in St. Petersburg, Russia at the Mariinsky Theatre in ARYO's joint concert with the Mariinsky Youth Orchestra, performing the Karol Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 1. He has earned first prize awards at the All-Russia Competition in St. Petersburg, the Siberian Violin Competition, the National Prize Prizvanie in Moscow, and the Salon de Virtuosi in New York. He is a winner of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation Award, and he received the 2000 Virtuoso of the Year award in St. Petersburg. In 2003, the National Academy of Achievement selected him for an award in the Performing Arts. In 2005, he received the highest level of recognition when Vladimir Putin received him at the Kremlin, in acknowledgment of his status as one of Russia’s most promising young musicians.
The International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians is the junior section of the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition, and it is the largest competition for junior performers up to 17 years of age. The competition was established in 1992 on the initiative of the Association of Tchaikovsky Competition Stars and is held in the sections of piano, violin, and cello.
Joel Spiegelman was an American composer, conductor, concert pianist, harpsichordist, recording artist, arranger, author and professor.
Danny Driver is a British classical pianist.
Oliver Poole is a British pianist and composer.
Alisa Sadikova is a prodigy classical harpist from Russia.
Yeruham Sharovsky is an Israeli-Argentine conductor. He has conducted over 50 orchestras across more than 20 countries, spanning continents from Europe to the Americas and Asia.
