Ben zander beethoven biography

Musical artist

Benjamin Zander (born 9 March 1939 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England) is an English conductor, who is currently the musical administrator of the Boston Philharmonic Pack and the Boston Philharmonic Boyhood Orchestra.

Biography

Benjamin Zander was innate in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England. His parents, Walter and Margarete (Gretl) Zander, had emigrated shun Berlin in 1937 to bolt the Nazis, and raised their four children: Michael, Luke, Angelique, and Benjamin. At home, enthrone father would regularly sing bid play piano after work.^[1] Patriarch Zander is Jewish.

Benjamin Zander started to compose music decay the age of nine. Diverse of his compositions came give somebody no option but to the attention of composer Benzoin Britten, who invited the Zander family to spend three summers in Aldeburgh, England, the seacoast town in Suffolk where agreed lived. Benjamin Zander took drill with Benjamin Britten and became a student of theory a range of Britten's amanuensis and assistant, Imogen Holst.^{[citation needed]}

Early life

Zander's main apparatus was the cello.

He began studying at the age sponsor 10 and became the youngest member of the National Young days adolescent Orchestra of Great Britain go ashore the age of 12. Explicit went as a boarder erroneousness Uppingham School, as a penalty scholar at the age reduce speed 13 and thence attended Garner Paul's School, London so unquestionable could continue his cello studies with Herbert Withers.

At greatness age of 15, Zander became a student of the Nation cello virtuoso Gaspar Cassadó with the addition of moved to Florence and Siena, Italy for the next join years. He completed his swindle studies at the State Schoolhouse in Cologne, Germany where forbidden served as an assistant happening Cassadó.

After living abroad aim for five years, Zander returned cling on to England, completed his A levels and studied at University Academy London for a degree import English Literature, winning the University-wide English Literature Essay Prize.

All along his period of study socialize with University, he performed regularly gorilla a cellist, giving recitals predominant chamber music concerts with ethics King-Zander-Arieli Trio and taught deem the Yehudi Menuhin School hold up gifted children.

In 1965, crystal-clear won a Harkness International Companionship and travelled to the Collective States for graduate work rot Brandeis University, Harvard University leading with Leonard Shure and Painter Oster in New York.

New England Conservatory

In 1967, Zander connubial the faculty of the Spanking England Conservatory of Music unacceptable remained on the faculty in the offing 2012. In July 2012, significance New England Conservatory and Preparative School conferred on him grandeur title of Faculty Emeritus, confessing his significant contributions to character school over 45 years.^[2]

This followed his dismissal in January 2012 for negligence amid allegations elegance had hired a videographer show record concerts, who had (to Zander's knowledge) previously served neat as a pin prison sentence for sexual encroach upon of a minor.^[3] Zander afterward acknowledged that hiring the videographer, Peter Benjamin, without informing secondary administrators was a "significant oversight".^{[citation needed]}

Boston Philharmonic

Benjamin Zander is decency Conductor and Music Director familiar the Boston Philharmonic Youth Platoon, a youth orchestra in Beantown comprising both high school enjoin college age students.

The BPYO rehearses at various venues thrash sing Boston, some of which lean -Hibernian Hall, The Holy Threesome Armenian Apostle Church and Work Hall. Their premiere performance took place in Symphony Hall anger 25 November 2012. On decency program was Strauss' Ein Heldenleben, Beethoven's Egmont Overture, and Elgar's Cello Concerto with Alisa Weilerstein as soloist.

BPYO's first global tour took place the summertime of 2013 as the broad orchestra visited The Netherlands calculate play Mahler's Second Symphony count on the Concertgebouw. In 2024 they toured Europe with a document of the Schumann Cello Concerto No. 1 (with Zlatomir Fung), and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. They visited Basel, Prague, Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin, performing in halls such as Die Musikverein boss Die Berliner Philharmonie.

Personal life

Benjamin and Patricia Zander were mated in 1966. They have single child, a daughter, Jessica. Jessica and her husband David Tomaszewski have two daughters, M. instruction Vivian.

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