The Los Angeles Philharmonic is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles,California. Colloquially referred to as the LA Phil,the orchestra has a regular season of concerts from October through June at the Walt Disney Concert Hall,and a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl from July through September. Gustavo Dudamel is the current music director,Esa-Pekka Salonen is conductor laureate,Zubin Mehta is conductor emeritus,and Susanna Mälkki is principal guest conductor. John Adams is the orchestra's current composer-in-residence.
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is an American composer,the first female composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her early works are marked by atonal exploration,but by the late 1980s,she had shifted to a postmodernist,neoromantic style. She has been called "one of America's most frequently played and genuinely popular living composers." She was a 1994 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame. Zwilich has served as the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor at Florida State University.
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch was an American composer and conductor. He is one of a handful of people to win Emmy,Grammy,Oscar and Tony awards,a feat dubbed the "EGOT". He and composer Richard Rodgers are the only people to have won those prizes and a Pulitzer Prize ("PEGOT").
Jukka-Pekka Saraste is a Finnish conductor and violinist.
Sarah Chang is a Korean American classical violinist. Recognized as a child prodigy,she first played as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1989. She enrolled at Juilliard School to study music,graduated in 1999,and continued university studies. Especially during the 1990s and early to mid-2000s,Chang had major roles as a soloist with many of the world's major orchestras.
Jessye Mae Norman was an American opera singer and recitalist. She was able to perform dramatic soprano roles,but did not limit herself to that voice type. A commanding presence on operatic,concert and recital stages,Norman was associated with roles including Beethoven's Leonore,Wagner's Sieglinde and Kundry,Berlioz's Cassandre and Didon,and Bartók's Judith. The New York Times music critic Edward Rothstein described her voice as a "grand mansion of sound",and wrote that "it has enormous dimensions,reaching backward and upward. It opens onto unexpected vistas. It contains sunlit rooms,narrow passageways,cavernous halls."
Ambassador Auditorium is located on the historic Ambassador College campus in Pasadena,California,United States. The auditorium's main hall has a capacity of 1,262 people. Some concertgoers call it "The Carnegie Hall of the West". Ambassador Auditorium is a large chamber music-sized hall with large concert halls. It seats 1,262 people. This concert hall hosted 20 seasons of musicians and performers from 1974 to 1995.
Ethel Stark,was a Canadian violinist and conductor.
David Eric Robertson is an American conductor. He was chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra,and was formerly music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from 2005 until 2018. He is Director of Orchestral Studies at Juilliard.
Siow Lee Chin is a Singaporean violinist.
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.
Donato Cabrera is an American conductor with an active international career. He is the Artistic and Music Director of the California Symphony,and was the Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and Wattis Foundation Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2009-2016.
The Westchester Philharmonic is a professional symphony orchestra based in Westchester County,New York,United States. The orchestra performs in the concert hall of the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College.
Mark Grey is an American classical music composer,sound designer and sound engineer.
Soon Hee Newbold is an American composer,conductor,musician,film producer,and director.
Jorge Mester is a Mexican conductor of Hungarian ancestry. He has served as the artistic director for the Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río,Veracruz,since it was founded in 2014.
Yuja Wang is a Chinese pianist. Born in Beijing,she began learning piano there at age six,and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
The Pasadena Symphony and POPS is an American orchestra based in Pasadena,California. In 2010,it took up residence at the Ambassador Auditorium,where its Classics Series runs from October through April. Since 2012,it performs a summer series at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden from June through September.
Sarah Hatsuko Hicks is a Japanese-born American orchestral conductor. Since 2009,she has been the Principal Conductor of Live at Orchestra Hall for the Minnesota Orchestra,and also serves as Staff Conductor at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Iwona Sobotka is a Polish soprano and Grand Prix Winner of the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition.
