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Thomas Adès
British composer, pianist and conductor
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Simon Halsey
British conductor
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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
orchestra based in Birmingham, England
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Sakari Oramo
Finnish conductor
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John Carewe
British conductor
5
Claudio Abbado
Italian conductor (1933-2014)
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Janet Baker
Opera and concert singer
7
Vladimir Jurowski
Russian conductor
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Adrian Boult
English conductor
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London Philharmonic Orchestra
London based symphony orchestra
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John Barbirolli
British conductor and cellist
11
Mariss Jansons
Latvian conductor
12
Julian Anderson
British composer and teacher of composition
13
Lorin Maazel
French-American conductor
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Markus Stenz
German conductor
15
Charles Groves
British conductor
16
Riccardo Chailly
Italian conductor
17
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Canadian conductor and pianist
18
Kirill Petrenko
Russian conductor
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Michael Tilson Thomas
American conductor, pianist and composer
20
Andrew Davis
British conductor
21
Rafael Kubelík
Czech conductor, violinist, composer and director conductor of Czech philharmony
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Otto Klemperer
German conductor and composer
23
Susanna Mälkki
Finnish conductor and cellist
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Leonard Bernstein
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist
25
William Steinberg
American conductor
26
Yuja Wang
Chinese pianist
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish conductor and composer
28
Roger Norrington
British conductor
29
Kurt Sanderling
German conductor
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New York Philharmonic Orchestra
American symphony orchestra in New York, NY
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Arthur Nikisch
Hungarian conductor
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Charles Mackerras
Australian conductor
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Leopold Stokowski
British conductor
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Georg Solti
Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
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Wiener Singverein
concert choir
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Joaquín Achúcarro
Basque Spanish classical pianist
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Lilli Paasikivi
Finnish mezzo-soprano
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Dimitri Mitropoulos
Greek conductor, pianist, and composer
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Gerard Schwarz
American conductor
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Hamilton Harty
Irish composer, conductor, pianist and organist
