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The Hallé
English symphony orchestra based in Manchester
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Andrew Davis
British conductor
2
Paul Daniel
English conductor
3
Charles Mackerras
Australian conductor
4
BBC Symphony Orchestra
British orchestra based in London
5
Simon Rattle
British conductor
6
Colin Davis
British conductor
7
Sakari Oramo
Finnish conductor
8
David Robertson
American conductor
9
Stéphane Denève
French conductor
10
Markus Stenz
German conductor
11
Roger Norrington
British conductor
12
Robin Ticciati
British conductor
13
Kirill Karabits
Ukrainian conductor
14
James Loughran
British conductor
15
John Barbirolli
British conductor and cellist
16
Susanna Mälkki
Finnish conductor and cellist
17
Kent Nagano
American conductor and opera administrator
18
Fabio Luisi
Italian conductor
19
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Canadian conductor and pianist
20
Mariss Jansons
Latvian conductor
21
Gavin Sutherland
British conductor, composer and pianist
22
Riccardo Chailly
Italian conductor
23
Charles Groves
British conductor
24
Vladimir Jurowski
Russian conductor
25
Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
26
BBC Concert Orchestra
British orchestra
27
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
28
George Benjamin
British composer, conductor, pianist and teacher
29
Valery Gergiev
Russian conductor and opera company director
30
Hamilton Harty
Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist
31
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
32
Georg Solti
Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
33
Jonathan Nott
British conductor
34
Xian Zhang
Chinese-American conductor
35
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
orchestra based in London
36
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
orchestra based in Birmingham, England
37
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
American orchestra based in Pittsburgh
38
Malcolm Sargent
English conductor, organist and composer
39
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Scotland's national symphony orchestra based in Glasgow
40
Alexander Gibson
Scottish conductor and opera intendant
41
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
Spanish conductor
42
Myung-whun Chung
South Korean pianist and conductor
