Gerard Schwarz
Gerard Ralph Schwarz is one of the world's leading conductors, particularly noted for music of the first great age of American symphonism. He has also been one of the great trumpet virtuosi.
He began studying the trumpet when he was a boy of eight. He attended the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan during the summers of 1958-1960 and studied at New York's High School of Performing Arts (the Fame school). He studied trumpet with William Vacchiano, trumpeter of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1962-1968). He received his Bachelor's Degree from the Juilliard School in 1972. Meanwhile, he had debuted as a conductor in 1966.
During this time he had been busy as a trumpeter. He joined the American Brass Quintet in 1965 and with it toured the United States, Europe, and Asia, remaining with the ensemble from 1965 to 1973. He was a trumpeter in the American Symphony Orchestra from 1966 to 1972, becoming its first trumpet in 1969. With that orchestra he played a considerable quantity of new and American music. During this period is was also a member of the Aspen Festival Orchestra and the Casals Festival Orchestra. He was appointed co-principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra from 1972 to 1975. As a trumpet player he made a number of important recordings, many of which are now in the CD catalogues.
He was the first wind player to win the Ford Foundation Award for concert artists (1971-1973), which enabled him to commission a trumpet concerto from Gunther Schuller, and commissioned a number of other trumpet works from composers including Dlugoszewski and Brant.
Meanwhile, he pursued a conducting career. In 1968 he began conducting for the Eliot Feld Dance Company of which he became Music Director. He also was music director of the Waterloo Festival, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. In 1975 he was appointed music director of the 92d Street Y Chamber Symphony, which was later renamed the New York Chamber Symphony and has maintained that position since. He became music director of New York's Mostly Mozart Festival in 1982, and also remains in that position. IN 1981 he founded the Music Today contemporary music series in New York, serving as its music director through 1989.
In 1983 he was named Music Advisor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. In 1984 he became its Principal Conductor, and in 1985 its Music Director. With the Seattle Symphony he has become known for having one of the most innovative and wide-ranging programming of any major symphony orchestra, with a strong emphasis on music of the great American symphonic composers such as Hanson, Diamond, Creston and their contemporaries, a large amount of which he has recorded for the audiophile CD label Delos. He has guided the orchestra to its highest artistic level, and seen it through construction and occupancy of its new venue, Benaroya Hall. He is also artistic adviser of the Tokyu Bunkamura's Orchard Hall, where he conducts the Tokyo Philharmonic in six concerts annually.
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Symphonie n° 3 - Chichester Psalms
Symphonieorchester - Erschienen bei Milken Family Foundation am 01.09.2005
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Bernstein - Barber - Diamond
Jane Bunnell, Dale Duesing, Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei Naxos am 03.04.2012
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Irving Fine: Notturno, Partita, String Quartet; The Hour Glass
Klassik - Erschienen bei Nonesuch am 01.01.1988
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Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 1 - Allegro appassionato - Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1
Julian Schwarz, Seattle Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 01.02.2011
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Strauss: Ein Heldenleben - Sextet from Capriccio
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 02.10.2012
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Symphonie n°1 "Nordic"
Seattle Symphony, Seattle Symphony Chorale, Gerard Schwarz
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 06.09.2011
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HAYDN, J.: Symphonies Nos. 21 and 96 / Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major (Starker, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Schwarz) (Franz Joseph Haydn)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Delos am 01.01.1987
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Symphonie n°3
Seattle Symphony, Faith Esham, Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony Chorale
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 01.05.2012
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Symphonies n°6 et n°7
Seattle Symphony, Seattle Symphony Chorale, Gerard Schwarz
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 27.12.2011
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Kernis: Symphony In Waves; String Quartet 'Musica Celestis'
The Lark Quartet, New York Chamber Symphony, Gerard Schwarz
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 13.10.1992
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Above and Beyond (Live)
The President's Own United States Marine Band, Gerard Schwarz
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 04.03.2014
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Gerard Schwarz Performs New Music for Trumpet
Gerard Schwarz, Henry Brant, Louis Ranger, Unknown Artist, Stanley Rosenzweig
Klassik - Erschienen bei Phoenix USA am 01.01.1990
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Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 9 "The Great"
Klassik - Erschienen bei Master Performers am 01.07.2021
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Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suites Nos. 1 and 2 - Pushkin Waltz No. 2
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 03.07.2012
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Richter: Poetic Images Beyond Poetry
Seattle Symphony, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Klassik - Erschienen bei Ravello Records am 05.02.2013
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A little Miracle
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei Milken Family Foundation am 16.05.2006
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PASATIERI: Letter to Warsaw
Jane Eaglen, Mina Miller, Music of Remembrance, Gerard Schwarz
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei Naxos am 01.05.2004
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TOM Suite / Symphony No. 8 / This Sacred Ground
Seattle Symphony, Erich Parce, Gerard Schwarz, Northwest Boychoir, Seattle Girls' Choir, Seattle Symphony Chorale
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos am 01.01.1994
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Haydn, F.J.: Symphonies Nos. 61 and 103 / Cello Concerto No. 2 (Franz Joseph Haydn)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Delos am 01.01.1991
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Weber, Spohr & Crusell: Clarinet Concertos
Emma Johnson, English Chamber Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca (UMO) am 01.08.1989
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The Age of Splendor (Studio)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Phoenix USA am 01.01.1990
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