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Michael Stern (violinist)
Michael Stern may refer to: * Michael Stern (conductor) (born 1959), American musician * Michael Stern (educator) (1922–2002), founder of the Waterford Kamhlaba United World College * Michael Stern (journalist) (1910–2009), American journalist and philanthropist * Michael Stern (British politician) (born 1942), British Conservative Party politician * Michael Stern (real estate developer) (born 1979), American real estate developer * Michael Stern (born 1947), American writer in the team Jane and Michael Stern * Michael Stern (Jamaican politician), Jamaica Labour Party politician * Michael Stern (zoologist), American zookeeper, conservationist, anthropologist and primatologist * Mike Stern (born 1953), American jazz guitarist See also * Mikhail Stern Mikhail Shaevich Stern (russian: Михаил Шаевич Штерн, 1918 – 17 June 2005) was a Soviet endocrinologist, sexologist and dissident. Biography Stern was born in a Jewish family in a small Ukrainian town of Zhme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stern (conductor)
Michael Stern (born December 17, 1959) is an American symphony conductor. Currently, he serves as the music director and lead conductor of the Kansas City Symphony in Kansas City, Missouri. In 2019, he was also named the fourth music director of the Stamford Symphony in Stamford, Connecticut ow known at Orchestra LUMOS He is also the founding music director of the IRIS Orchestra in Germantown, Tennessee. In 2021, Stern was appointed as Music Director of the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, CO. He is only the third Music Director in the organization's history. Early life and education Stern is the son of violinist Isaac Stern. He obtained his undergraduate degree in American history from Harvard College in 1981. Subsequently, he studied under conductor Max Rudolf at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, graduating in 1986. Stern also studied for one summer at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute and for two summers at the Pierre Monteux Memorial Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stern (educator)
Michael Alexander Stern (13 January 1922 – 14 July 2002) was the founder of the Waterford Kamhlaba United World College, a multi-racial school in opposition to South Africa's apartheid policies. Early life and career Michael Alexander Stern was born on 13 January 1922 in Egypt, the son of a civil engineer. He attended Ravenswood Preparatory School in Devon and Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk. Stern went to Downing College, Cambridge for a year before his studies were interrupted by World War II. Stern served in the Royal Signals in the British Army in North Africa, Italy, and Greece, rising to the rank of captain. He graduated from Downing College in 1947. Stern taught at school in England, later assuming head teaching posts at approved schools from 1952 to 1955. In 1955, Stern read an article by the Revd Trevor Huddleston and, at Huddleston's invitation, Stern went to South Africa and became the headmaster of St Peter's, a school for African children in Johannesburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stern (journalist)
Michael Stern (August 3, 1910 – April 7, 2009) was an American reporter, author and philanthropist. As a reporter during World War II he issued some of the first accounts from a liberated Rome, Italy in June 1944. He later worked in concert with Zachary Fisher to create the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City, United States. Early life Stern was born on August 3, 1910,"Michael Stern August 3, 1910 – April 7, 2009" . Accessed April 12, 2009. at a farm in the |
Michael Stern (British Politician)
Michael Charles Stern (born 3 August 1942) is a Great Britain, British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. Stern contested Derby South (UK Parliament constituency), Derby South at the 1979 United Kingdom general election, 1979 general election before being elected as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament (MP) for Bristol North West (UK Parliament constituency), Bristol North West at the 1983 United Kingdom general election, 1983 general election. He represented the seat for 14 years. In the 1992 United Kingdom general election, 1992 election, he held on by the extremely narrow margin of 45 votes, but in 1997 United Kingdom general election, 1997 — unhelped by adverse boundary changes — lost the seat to Labour Party (UK), Labour's Doug Naysmith by 11,382 votes. References *''Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1992 and 1997 editions'' * External links * Living people 1942 births Conservative Party (UK) MPs fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stern (real Estate Developer)
Michael Stern (born June 13, 1979) is an American real estate developer. Early life Stern was born on June 13, 1979 to a Jewish family and raised in Five Towns on Long Island."The Closing - Michael Stern: The JDS wunderkind on getting kicked out of yeshiva, his latest projects and the truth about Billionaires' Row" By E.B. Solomont February 01, 2016 He is a graduate of Lawrence High School. Career After school, he took a job as a project manager for a developer in Florida and after three years ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane And Michael Stern
Jane Grossman Stern and Michael Stern (both born 1946) are American writers who specialize in books about travel, food, and popular culture. They are best known for their '' Roadfood'' books, website, and magazine columns, in which they find road food restaurants serving classic American regional specialties and review them. Starting their hunt for regional American food in the early 1970s they were the first food writers to regard this food as being as worthy to report on as the haute cuisine of other nations. Since the Sterns began documenting regional American food in the 1970s many other writers and television personalities have used their pioneering work as inspiration. In addition to their early work with regional American food the Sterns' book ''Square Meals'' (Knopf 1985) put "comfort foods" like mac and cheese, meatloaf, and mashed potatoes on the culinary map. ''Square Meals'' did an audacious reverse spin on the tricked up and precious nouvelle cuisine that was beloved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stern (Jamaican Politician)
Michael Anthony Stern is a Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...n politician with the Jamaica Labour Party. He was formerly a Member of the Parliament of Jamaica for Clarendon North West as well as State Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, but lost his seat in the 2011 Jamaican general election, 2011 general election. Career Stern beat People's National Party incumbent Richard Azan by 933 votes to take the Clarendon North West seat in the 2007 Jamaican general election, 2007 general election. Bruce Golding then named him as State Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce. In July 2009, Justice Lloyd Hibbert of the High Court ordered Stern to vacate his seat after finding that he had held multiple citizenship, dual citizenship in Jamaica and the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stern (zoologist)
Michael Stern (born 1978) is an American zookeeper, conservationist, anthropologist and primatologist who serves as the Curator of Primates and Small Mammals at Philadelphia Zoo and is the co-founder of the New Nature Foundation. He previously worked at the Denver Zoo and Honolulu Zoo. Early life Stern was born in the Philadelphia area and attended Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, then known as Akiba Hebrew Academy, graduating in 1996. He went on to attend Harvard University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in biological anthropology. At Harvard, he was mentored by noted primatologist and researcher, Richard Wrangham. Starting at age 12, Stern began volunteering at the Philadelphia Zoo nearly every Saturday. At age 13, he became a presenter in the children's zoo. He eventually reached a point where many of the animals knew who he was and was among the first people to meet the zoo's baby orangutan. Career Prior to founding the New Nature Foundation together, Stern and Gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Stern
Mike Stern (born January 10, 1953) is an American jazz guitarist. After playing with Blood, Sweat & Tears, he worked with drummer Billy Cobham, then with trumpeter Miles Davis from 1981 to 1983 and again in 1985. He then began a solo career, releasing more than a dozen albums. Stern was named Best Jazz Guitarist of 1993 by ''Guitar Player'' magazine. At the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal in June 2007, he was given the Miles Davis Award, which was created to recognize internationally acclaimed jazz artists whose work has contributed significantly to the renewal of the genre. In 2009 Stern was listed on ''Down Beat''s list of 75 best jazz guitarists of all time. He received ''Guitar Player'' magazine's Certified Legend Award on January 21, 2012. Personal life Stern was born Michael Sedgwick in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Helen Stern (née Helen Phillips Burroughs), a sculptor and art patron, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V. His adoptive stepfather was Philip M. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Stern
Mikhail Shaevich Stern (russian: Михаил Шаевич Штерн, 1918 – 17 June 2005) was a Soviet endocrinologist, sexologist and dissident. Biography Stern was born in a Jewish family in a small Ukrainian town of Zhmerynka. In 1944 he received his doctor degree, and in 1947 organized in Chernovtsy the first endocrinological center in Ukraine. In 1952 he moved to Vinnitsa. The same year he was discharged because of the Doctors' plot, an imaginary conspiracy of Jewish doctors to poison Soviet leaders. He was reinstated in 1954, a year after Stalin's death. In 1963, Stern became a section head in a newly established endocrinological center in Vinnitsa. In 1974, after his sons, Viktor (born 1941) and August (born 1945), applied for asylum in Israel, Stern was questioned at the Vinnitsa visa office and his flat was searched. Two weeks later he was arrested for swindling and bribery, and in December sentenced to eight years of hard labor in Kharkiv. Meanwhile, his sons left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
