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Born in Leipzig of Japanese and German ancestry, Masur is the son of conductor Kurt Masur and Masur's third wife, the soprano Tomoko Sakurai. He began piano studies at age 6. Masur was also a boy soprano, and sang with the Gewandhaus Children's Choir at age 9. [2]
Masur, wife Tomoko, daughter Carolin, and son Ken David in 1981. Masur was born in Brieg, Lower Silesia, Germany (now Brzeg, Poland), and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig, Saxony. His father was an electrical engineer, and as a young boy he completed an electrician's apprenticeship; he occasionally worked in his father's shop.
Masur's MSO tenure began with 2019-'20 season. He has guided the orchestra through the pandemic and the opening of its new concert hall. Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ken-David Masur ...
Bach is like family to Masur, who was born in the city where Bach worked, Leipzig, Germany. Masur's father, famed conductor Kurt Mazur, was music director there. His mother is soprano Tomoko Sakurai.
Mendelssohn's study, a room in the museum. The International Mendelssohn Foundation was founded in 1991, with Kurt Masur as chairman; its purpose was to save and restore Mendelssohn's last home in Leipzig.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (German: [ˌdiːtʁɪç ˌfɪʃɐ ˈdiːskaʊ̯] ⓘ; 28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012 [1]) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music. One of the most famous Lieder performers of the post-war period, he is best known as a singer of Franz Schubert's Lieder, particularly "Winterreise" [2] of which his recordings with accompanists Gerald Moore and Jörg ...
Jeanne and Gideon are the parents of Blaze Bernstein. On Jan. 2, 2018, then-19-year-old Blaze left his house. Sometime later that night, he was murdered in Borrego Park, stabbed 28 times; his body ...
From 1976 to 1982 Reinhard Seehafer studied with Rolf Reuter and Kurt Masur, and subsequently with Otmar Suitner and Leonard Bernstein. In 1982 he created a sensation with Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly at the Komische Oper Berlin , and was immediately engaged there.