James Sinclair is an American classical conductor. Sinclair studied at

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, taught at the

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, then moved to

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in 1972, where he joined

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. Sinclair has been the Music Director of Orchestra New England from 1974 to the present. He was also music director of the

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from 1994 to 1995. Sinclair is notably a specialist in the music of Charles Ives; he has "spent iswhole adult life devoted to the music of Charles Ives." He has published ''A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives'' with the Yale University Press and served as music director for a number of PBS documentaries, including ''A Good Dissonance Like a Man'', about Ives. He is currently an Associate Fellow of

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and overseas the Charles Ives papers, as well as those of pianist and Ives scholar John Kirkpatrick. As a conductor, Sinclair has recorded a number of Ives works, as part of a complete set of Ives' orchestral music projected to be in nine discs for the

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label. He is one of the interviewed Ives scholars in the 2018 documentary ''

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''.

References

External links

James Sinclair's biography on the Naxos web site

James Sinclair discusses the music of Charles Ives
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