Earl Bernard Murray

Earl Bernard Murray (born 1926 in San Francisco ; † March 3, 2002 ibid) was an American trumpeter and conductor.

Murray was a fifth generation musician; his father Ralph Murray was a tuba player in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and long-time conductor of the Golden Gate Park Band . He attended Lowell High School and studied at the University of California at Berkeley . He also took trumpet lessons from Benjamin Klatzkin and composition lessons from David Sheinfeld .

He became a trumpeter in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Monteux . At the age of eighteen he made his debut as a conductor of the San Francisco Recreational Symphony and gained the attention of Monteux, who accepted him into his Monteux Summer Conducting School in Hancock, Maine, and confirmed him as an official student. In 1951 he conducted the San Francisco Symphony at the Stern Grove Concerts and the following year he became musical director of Lew and William Christiansen's San Francisco Ballet . He then conducted the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at the Youth Concerts, San Francisco Opera Gala Concerts and Standard Hour radio concerts .

For the next several years he conducted the Monterey Symphony Orchestra , the Salt Lake City Ballet Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestra ; In 1959 he became musical director of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra . From here he moved to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra . He later devoted himself to promoting young musicians in projects such as the San Francisco All-City Youth Orchestra and the Cazadero Music Camp . Murray died of esophageal cancer at the age of 76 at his hometown California Pacific Medical Center .

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SURNAME	Murray, Earl Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American trumpeter and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	San Francisco , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH	March 3, 2002
Place of death	San Francisco , California , United States