Meir Minsky (born 16 April 1949) is an

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i, and Belgian conductor. A frequent guest among leading orchestras he has performed with more than one hundred different orchestras worldwide, including the

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, the

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, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, orchestras in Tokyo, Chicago, Paris, Milan, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Berlin, Bonn, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Basel, Bern, Amsterdam, Warsaw
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Budapest, Bucharest and Brussels. He has conducted from a wide-ranging repertoire, which includes over five hundred entries of music, and specializes in the late romantic, German and Central European, repertoire of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Biography

Born in

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, Meir Minsky was a few months old when his family immigrated to Israel. He is a graduate of the

Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance ( he, האקדמיה למוסיקה ולמחול בירושלים), is a school for the music and the performing arts in Jerusalem. It is located on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusa ...

in conducting and composition, and in 1977 was awarded a diploma from the ''

Accademia di Santa Cecilia The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ( en, National Academy of St Cecilia) is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull ''Ratione congruit'', issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prom ...

'' in Rome after graduating from Maestro Franco Ferrara's prestigious ''Corso di Perfezionamento''. He participated in conducting master classes at the festivals of Siena and Ravello, at ''

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'' in Venice and at the ''Hochschule fur Musik'' in Cologne. Mr. Minsky has won prizes and awards from the Florence international conducting competition, the Accademia di Santa Cecila, the American Israeli Cultural Foundation and the

Ravello festival The Ravello Festival is also popularly known as the "Wagner Festival" and is an annual summer festival of music and the arts held in the town of Ravello on the Amalfi coast in the Campania region of Italy. The festival has been held yearly since ...

Recordings

Mr. Minsky has recorded music by Joseph Joachim and

Alexandre Tansman Alexander Tansman ( pl, Aleksander Tansman, link=no, French: Alexandre Tansman; 12 June 1897 – 15 November 1986) was a Polish composer, pianist and conductor who became a naturalized French citizen in 1938. One of the earliest representatives of ...

for Marco Polo label o
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music by Daniel Sternefeld for

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, Joly Braga Santos among other Portuguese Music for KOCH Schwann, and the labels DIVOX, Leonardo, and Ritzen Editions.

References

External links

* Meir Minsk
Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Minsky, Meir 1949 births Living people American male conductors (music) Israeli conductors (music) Belgian conductors (music) Belgian male musicians Male conductors (music) Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni 21st-century American conductors (music) 21st-century American male musicians