- Giulio Cesare
- Royal Academy of Music
- Metier Sound and Vision Ltd
- Rheinberger
- Pierné
- John Blackwood McEwen
- San Diego Symphony
- Isabelle Baglio
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The late Patric Standford may have written these short pieces deliberately to provoke our feedback. If so, his success is reflected in the rich range of readers' comments appearing at the foot of most of the pages.
Bernhard Kontarsky
German conductor Bernhard Kontarsky was born in Iserlohn on 26 April 1937. He studied at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and began his conducting career as Kapellmeister at the Staatstheater Stuttgart.
Kontarsky is a new music specialist, and has conducted first performances of music by Hans Werner Henze, Mauricio Kagel, Hans Zender and Eckehard Mayer.
Since 1981 he has been professor of orchestral conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.
He has also occasionally appeared as a pianist in a three-piano ensemble with his elder brothers Aloys Kontarsky and Alfons Kontarsky.