Michael Tilson Thomas

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Michael Tilson Thomas (also known as MTT ; born December 21, 1944 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American conductor , pianist and composer . He has been chief conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra since 1995 .

Life

Tilson Thomas studied piano with John Crown , composition and conducting with Ingolf Dahl at the University of Southern California . As a young pianist, he played in Los Angeles a. a. with Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz . Under the supervision of Igor Stravinsky, he took part in the world premiere of the four-hand version for piano of the Sacre du printemps . In 1966 he was assistant conductor in Bayreuth and in 1969 won the Koussevitzky Prize in Tanglewood . In 1973 he became chief conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted regularly with the Boston Symphony Orchestra , the London Symphony Orchestra (1988–1995 chief conductor, currently principal guest conductor) and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra . In 1990 he performed his composition From Anne Frank's Diary . Other compositions by him include a. Showa / Shoah , Urban Legend , Island Music , Notturno , Street Song , Agnegram . Tilson Thomas is an openly gay community in San Francisco.

Awards

Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance

Grammy Award for Best Classical Album

  • 2000 with the Peninsula Boys Choir, the San Francisco Girls Chorus, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus: Stravinsky: Der Feuervogel ; Le Sacre du Printemps ; Perséphone .
  • 2004 with the Pacific Boychoir, the San Francisco Girls Chorus, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus: Mahler : 3rd Symphony , Kindertotenlieder .
  • 2006 with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra: Mahler : 7th Symphony .
  • 2010 with the Pacific Boychoir, the San Francisco Girls Chorus, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony Chorus: Mahler : 8th Symphony .

Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance

National Medal of Arts

  • 2009, awarded by US President Barack Obama , bestowed on February 25, 2010

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

  • 2006, elected member

American Academy of Arts and Letters

  • 2018, honorary member

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mary kalfatovic: Tilson-Thomas, Michael. In: encyclopedia.com. February 16, 2020 .;
  2. ↑ Michael Tilson Thomas: Viva Voce, Conversations with Edward Seckerson , Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1994, ISBN 0-571-16738-1 , p. XIV
  3. ↑ Michael Tilson Thomas: Viva Voce, Conversations with Edward Seckerson , Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1994, ISBN 0-571-16738-1 , p. XVI
  4. ↑ Richard Morrison: ORCHESTRA The LSO: A Century of Triumph and Turbulence , Faber and Faber Limited, London, 2004, ISBN 0-571-21583-1 , pp 215-217.
  5. ↑ Compositions Official website of Michael Tilson Thomas, accessed on January 21, 2014 (English).
  6. ^ Geoffrey W. Bateman: Tilson Thomas, Michael (b.1944). In: GLBTQ.com . December 12, 2002 (English).
  7. ↑ National Medal of Arts | NEA National Endowment for the Arts, accessed January 28, 2014
  8. ↑ Honorary Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Michael Tilson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conductor, pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California