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He is an American trumpeter and orchestral conductor
born in Weehawken, New Jersey
to Austrian parents. He
studied at the High School of Performing
Arts in New York
and the Juilliard School. After his studies he became a
trumpeter with the American Brass Quintet and by 1973 had become a
principal trumpeter for the New York Philharmonic. From 1966 he was also
conducting and has been musical advisor to the Eastern Music Festival and
music director of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, New
York's Mostly Mozart Festival and several others as
well as currently with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, who he has been with
since 1985. He is know as
being a champion of 20th century and American composers and has
been awarded the Ditson Conductor's Award, Musical America's Conductor of
the Year in 1994, 11 Grammy nominations and an Emmy nomination. He has made nearly 100 recordings
with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and alongside his works with other
orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Chamber
Orchestra and the English and Scottish Chamber Orchestras, he is now
regarded as one of the most recorded directors in the world.
Seattle
Symphony Orchestra recordings
Rameau Remembered for Flute and Orchestra
Artek 0004 (CD:
Hugh Aitken: Aspen Concerto, Rameau Remembered, In
Praise of Ockeghem)
Conductor -
Gerard Schwarz
Flute - Scott
Goff
Sources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Schwarz
- http://www.americancomposers.org/bios110198.htm
- http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Schwarz-Gerard.htm
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