- Jerzy Semkow
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Jerzy Semkow (born 1928 in Radomsko Poland) is a Polish conductor. He has served as music director of the Saint Louis Symphony, principal conductor of the Royal Danish Opera and the Royal Danish Orchestra in Copenhagen, Music Advisor and Principal Conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic, Music Director of the Orchestra of Radio-Televisione Italiana (RAI) in Rome, and Artistic Director of the National Opera in Warsaw.
He has lectured on music at the University of Colorado and conducted master classes at Yale University and New York's Manhattan School of Music.
He is a French citizen and resides in Paris.
External links
- Jerzy Semkow at the St Louis Symphony Orchestra
Joseph Otten (1880) · Alfred Ernst (1894) · Max Zach (1907) · Rudolph Ganz (1921) · Vladimir Golschmann (1931) · Edouard van Remoortel (1958) · Eleazar de Carvalho (1963) · Walter Susskind (1968) · Jerzy Semkow (1975) · Leonard Slatkin (1979) · Hans Vonk (1996) · David Robertson (2005)
Eugene Goossens (1923) · Albert Coates (1923) · José Iturbi (1936) · Erich Leinsdorf (1947) · Theodore Bloomfield (1959) · László Somogyi (1964) · Walter Hendl (1968) · Samuel Jones (1970) · David Zinman (1974) · Jerzy Semkow (1985) · Mark Elder (1989) · Robert Bernhardt (1994) · Christopher Seaman (1998) · Arild Remmereit (2011)
Categories: 1928 births | Living people | Naturalized citizens of France | Polish conductors (music) | Polish music biography stubs | European conductor (music) stubs
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