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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
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Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang
Chinese pianist
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Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa
Japanese orchestra conductor
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Otto Klemperer
Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Canadian conductor and pianist
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William Steinberg
William Steinberg
American conductor
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New York Philharmonic Orchestra
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
American symphony orchestra in New York, NY
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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
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Simon Rattle
Simon Rattle
British conductor
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Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini
Italian conductor
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Thomas Adès
Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
orchestra based in London
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Henry Kimball Hadley
Henry Kimball Hadley
American composer
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Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London based symphony orchestra
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James Paul
James Paul
American conductor
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Felix Weingartner
Felix Weingartner
Austrian conductor, composer and pianist
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Mariss Jansons
Mariss Jansons
Latvian conductor
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Pierre Monteux
Pierre Monteux
French conductor
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Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski
British conductor
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Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
American symphony orchestra in Boston, MA
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Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano
American conductor and opera administrator
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Robert Shaw
Robert Shaw
American conductor, born 1916
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Simon Halsey
Simon Halsey
British conductor
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John Barbirolli
John Barbirolli
British conductor and cellist
Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer

Michael Tilson Thomas

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American conductor, pianist and composer
Awards Received
National Medal of Arts
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Member of, past and present
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Tilson Thomas in 2008

Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944) is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He is currently the artistic director of the New World Symphony, an American orchestral academy based in Miami Beach, Florida. He is also Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony and Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra.