MARKAND THAKAR

Markand Thakar is music director of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra. Former assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, he has appeared with orchestras on four continents, including concerts across the United States and Canada. Other Baltimore Chamber Orchestra recordings for Naxos conducted by Markand Thakar include a disc of concertos by Ignaz Pleyel, and a disc of music by American composer Jonathan Leshnoff. Thakar, a protégé of Sergiu Celibidache, is the author of Counterpoint: Fundamentals of Music-Making (Yale University Press) and Looking for the “Harp” Quartet: An Investigation into Musical Quality (University of Rochester Press), and is co-director of graduate conducting at the Peabody Conservatory.

Role: Conductor
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