Michael Tilson Thomas is Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Founder and Inventive Director of the New World Symphony and Principal Visitor Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Born in Los Angeles, he is the 3rd generation of his relatives to follow an inventive profession. His grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, were founding members of the Yiddish Theater in The united states. His father, Ted Thomas, was a producer in the Mercury Theater Company in New York just before relocating to Los Angeles exactly where he labored in movies and television. His mom, Roberta Thomas, was the head of analysis for Columbia Images. Mr. Tilson Thomas commenced his formal reports at the University of Southern California in which he studied piano with John Crown and conducting and composition with Ingolf Dahl. At age nineteen he was named Music Director of the Youthful Musicians Basis Debut Orchestra. He labored with Stravinsky, Boulez, Stockhausen and Copland on premieres of their compositions at Los Angeles' Monday Night Concerts. During this exact same time period he was the pianist and conductor for Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz. In 1969, following successful the Koussevitzky Prize at Tanglewood, he was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. That calendar year he also made his New York debut with the Boston Symphony and gained global recognition immediately after changing Songs Director William Steinberg in mid-concert. He was later on appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra exactly where he remained right up until 1974. He was Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic from 1971 to 1979 and a Principal Visitor Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1981 to 1985. His visitor conducting consists of appearances with the main orchestras of Europe and the United States. My websites: venta-de-leña{ |