Maurice Peress

Maurice Peress ( born March 18, 1930 in New York City ) is an American conductor.

Life

Peress studied conducting at the New York University. In 1961 he became assistant to Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. In the next twenty years he led three American Orchestra: 1962-1974 Symphony Orchestra of Corpus Christi, next 1970-1972 the Symphony Orchestra of Austin from 1974 to 1980, the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra. He worked at this time with musicians such as Yo- Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman, Andre Watts and Garrick Ohlsson, Alan Titus and Jessye Norman, the Modern Jazz Quartet and Jon Faddis ' Carnegie Hall Jazz Band.

1971 Peress conducted the world premiere of Bernstein's Mass at the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, in 1981, the German -language premiere with the Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera. Since 1984, reconstructed Peress several historic concerts of American music history: first the Aeolian Hall Concert of 1924 at the Gershwin played the world premiere of his Rhapsody in Blue. In 1989 he led at Carnegie Hall three historic concerts: the Clef Club Concert from 1912, this was the first contested only by colored musicians concert in this house, George Antheil's Ballet Mécanique from 1927 and Duke Ellington's Black, Brown, and Beige Concert of, 1943.

1996 Peress was principal guest conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Shanghai. In 1997, he led the Brno Symphony Orchestra Bedřich Smetana's My Country; In 1999 he took on the music for the documentary Dvorak in America with the Prague Radio Orchestra. In the same year he was with Jessye Norman and the Barbican Centre in London Orchestra a concert with works Ellington. In 2000, he headed for Rai Uno a gala concert in honor Gershwin.

In addition, Peress worked with several major orchestras of the Far East: he conducted the Philharmonic Orchestra of Hong Kong ( 1980), the Chunjo Orchestra and the Changjo Orchestra in Korea (1996) and made ​​several concert tours in China ( 2003-05 ), where he Opera Orchestra conducted by Shanghai, the Chinese National Symphony and the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.

Since 1984, Peress taught conducting at the Aaron Copland School of Music. His autobiographical book Dvorák to Duke Ellington A Conductor Explores America 's Music and Its African American Roots appeared in 2004 in the Oxford University Press.

  • Conductor
  • Americans
  • Born in 1930
  • Man
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