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Colin Davis
Colin Davis
British conductor
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BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra
British orchestra based in London
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Steve Davislim
Steve Davislim
Australian singer, opera singer and hornist
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Markus Stenz
Markus Stenz
German conductor
4
Malcolm Sargent
Malcolm Sargent
English conductor, organist and composer
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Vladimir Jurowski
Vladimir Jurowski
Russian conductor
6
Charles Mackerras
Charles Mackerras
Australian conductor
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Sakari Oramo
Sakari Oramo
Finnish conductor
8
Charles Groves
Charles Groves
British conductor
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Simon Rattle
Simon Rattle
British conductor
10
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
orchestra based in London
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Marek Janowski
Marek Janowski
German conductor
12
Mark Elder
Mark Elder
British conductor
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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
American orchestra based in Pittsburgh
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Robin Ticciati
Robin Ticciati
British conductor
15
Kiri Te Kanawa
Kiri Te Kanawa
New Zealand opera singer
16
Janet Baker
Janet Baker
Opera and concert singer
17
Kirill Karabits
Kirill Karabits
Ukrainian conductor
18
Paul Daniel
Paul Daniel
English conductor
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Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
German composer
20
Gavin Sutherland
Gavin Sutherland
British conductor, composer and pianist
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Roger Norrington
Roger Norrington
British conductor
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Simon Halsey
Simon Halsey
British conductor
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Georg Solti
Georg Solti
Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
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James Loughran
James Loughran
British conductor
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Robert Tear
Robert Tear
Welsh tenor singer and conductor
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Rafael Kubelík
Rafael Kubelík
Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony
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Rudolf Kempe
Rudolf Kempe
German conductor
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British conductor
Record Labels
Awards Received
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Knight Bachelor

Sir Andrew Frank Davis CBE (born 2 February 1944) is an English conductor. He is music director and principal conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago, chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and conductor laureate of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Born in Ashridge, Hertfordshire to Robert J. Davis and his wife Florence Joyce (née Badminton), Davis grew up in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, and in Watford. Davis attended Watford Boys' Grammar School, where he studied classics in his sixth form years. His adolescent musical work included playing the organ at the Palace Theatre, Watford. Davis studied at the Royal Academy of Music and King's College, Cambridge where he was an organ scholar, graduating in 1967. He later studied conducting in Rome with Franco Ferrara.