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SCHWARZ, GERARD

Gerard Schwarz, Music Director of Seattle Symphony since 1985, is also Principal Conductor of the Eastern Music Festival, as well as Conductor Emeritus of New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, having served there as Music Director from 1984 to 2001. He stepped down as Music Director of the New York Chamber Symphony in 2002, taking the orchestra he founded in 1977 through its 25th anniversary. Maestro Schwarz served as Music Director of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for five seasons. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Gerard Schwarz began his conducting career in 1966. Within ten years, he was appointed Music Director of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, the Eliot Feld Dance Company, the Waterloo Festival and the New York Chamber Symphony, as well as the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 1981 he established the Music Today contemporary music series in New York City and served as its Music Director through 1989. Gerard Schwarz has led the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in débuts at the Tanglewood and Ravinia Festivals, and from 1991 to 1999 he conducted the Mostly Mozart Festival in Tokyo. From 1994 to 1999, he served as Artistic Advisor to Tokyu Bunkamura’s Orchard Hall, conducting six programmes annually with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has guest-conducted major orchestras throughout North America and Europe. In 1994 Gerard Schwarz was named Conductor of the Year by Musical America International Directory of the performing Arts. He also has received the Ditson Conductor’s Award from Columbia University, an honorary Doctorate of Music from the Juilliard School, and honorary doctorates from Fairleigh Dickinson University, University of Puget Sound, Seattle University and Cornish College of the Arts. In May 2002 the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers awarded him special recognition for his efforts in championing the works of American composers and the music of our time. In April 2003 the Pacific Northwest Branch of the National Arts & Sciences gave him its first “IMPACT” lifetime achievement award. He was also named an Honorary Fellow at John Moores University, Liverpool. In 2004 he was appointed to the NEA’s National Council on the Arts.


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ACHRON: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Golem / 2 Tableaux from Belshazzar 8.559408
ADOLPHE: Ladino Songs of Love and Suffering / Mikhoels the Wise (excerpt) 8.559413
AITKEN: Aspen Concerto / Rameau Remembered / In Praise of Ockeghem AR-0004-2
AVSHALOMOV / SILVER / MEYEROWITZ: Jewish Tone Poems 8.559426
BERLINSKI: Avodat Shabbat (Friday Evening Service) 8.559430
BERLINSKI: From the World of My Father / Shofar Service / Symphonic Visions for Orchestra 8.559446
BERNSTEIN: Symphony No. 3, 'Kaddish' / Chichester Psalms 8.559456
BRAHMS / SAINT-SAENS: Violin Concertos AR-0003-2
BROUWER, M: Aurolucent Circles / Mandala / Remembrances 8.559250
CRESTON: Symphony No. 5 / Toccata / Partita 8.559153
DIAMOND: Ahava / Music for Prayer 8.559412
DIAMOND: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4 8.559154
DIAMOND: Symphony No. 1 / Violin Concerto No. 2 / Enormous Room 8.559157
DIAMOND: Symphony No. 3 / Psalm / Kaddish 8.559155
DIAMOND: TOM Suite / Symphony No. 8 / This Sacred Ground 8.559156
FOSS: Elegy for Anne Frank / Song of Anguish / BEASER: The Heavenly Feast 8.559438
GENESIS SUITE (1945) 8.559442
HANSON: Merry Mount 8.669012-13
HOVHANESS: Khrimian Hairig / Guitar Concerto / Symphony No. 60 8.559294
IN CELEBRATION OF ISRAEL 8.559461
INTRODUCING THE WORLD OF AMERICAN JEWISH MUSIC 8.559406
JEWISH MUSIC OF THE DANCE 8.559439
JEWISH OPERAS, Vol. 2 8.559450
KLEZMER CONCERTOS AND ENCORES 8.559403
KRASA: Brundibar / LAITMAN: I Never Saw Another Butterfly 8.570119
LAZAROF: Tableaux / Violin Concerto / Symphony No. 2 8.559159
MILHAUD: Service Sacre 8.559409
PASATIERI: Letter to Warsaw 8.559219
PISTON: Incredible Flutist (The) / Fantasy for English Horn, Harp and Strings 8.559160
PISTON: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 6 8.559161
PISTON: Symphony No. 4 / Three New England Sketches 8.559162
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 AR-0020-2
SACRED SERVICES FROM ISRAEL 8.559452
SCHUMAN, W.: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 5 / Judith 8.559317
SCHUMAN: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 9 / Circus Overture / Orchestra Song 8.559254
SCHUMAN: Symphonies Nos. 7 and 10 8.559255
SHOSTAKOVICH: Execution of Stepan Razin (The) / October / 5 Fragments, Op. 42 8.557812
SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5 / The Golden Age Suite AR-0037-2
SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No. 1 / Symphony No. 6 AR-0017-2
STOCK: Little Miracle (A) / Yizkor / Tekiah / Y'rusha 8.559422
STORY OF AMERICAN CLASSICAL MUSIC (THE) 8.558164-65
TOCH: Cantata of the Bitter Herbs / Jephta 8.559417
WEILL: Eternal Road (The) (Highlights) 8.559402
WEISGALL: T'kiatot / Psalm of the Distant Dove / A Garden Eastward 8.559425
ZAIMONT: Sacred Service for the Sabbath Evening (excerpts) / A Tale of Abram and Isaac 8.559444




 
 
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