The Howard Hanson cycle, first released on Delos, was a mainstay on Billboard’s classical music best-selling list for 41 weeks, earned GRAMMY nominations and was named 1989 Record of the Year by Stereo Review. Schwarz’s dedication to the promotion of American music is also represented with his pioneering cycles of 26 American symphonists such as William Schuman, David Diamond, Walter Piston, Paul Creston, Peter Mennin, Alan Hovhaness, and Howard Hanson. His vast repertoire includes major twentieth-century ballets by composers Stravinsky, Strauss, Bartók, Ravel, and Prokofiev, as well as multi-disc cycles of works by Schumann, Strauss, Wagner, and Stravinsky. In November 2017, The Gerard Schwarz Collection, a 30-CD box set of previously unreleased and limited release works spanning his entire recording career was released by Naxos. As Music Director at EMF, he initiated the Bonnie McElveen-Hunter Commissioning Project that has thus far commissioned works by John Corigliano, Richard Danielpour, André Previn, HyeKyung Lee, and Lowell Liebermann.Ī prolific recording artist, Schwarz’s total discography numbers over 350 on labels such as Naxos, Delos, EMI, Koch, Artek, New World, Nonesuch, Reference Recording, RLPO Live, Columbia/Sony, and RCA. With more than 300 world premieres to his credit, Schwarz has always felt strongly about commissioning and performing new music. All the programs are released by Naxos on DVD and have been awarded seven Emmy Awards and the Deems Taylor Television Broadcast Award from ASCAP.Įastern Music Festival in North Carolina is among the country’s most important summer educational institutions bringing together world-renowned artists and exceptionally gifted young musicians from across the United States and beyond. Gerard Schwarz has also collaborated with the United States Marine Band adding three more programs. The All-Star Orchestra is an ensemble of top musicians from America’s leading orchestras featured in sixteen programs that have aired throughout the United States on public television, worldwide by internet streaming, and is the basis for their Khan Academy education platform that has already reached over 6 million students. Schwarz is a renowned interpreter of 19 th century German, Austrian, and Russian repertoire, in addition to his noted work with contemporary American composers. He holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Music Conducting and Orchestral Studies of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and Music Director of the Frost Symphony Orchestra. Internationally recognized for his moving performances, innovative programming and extensive catalogue of recordings, American conductor Gerard Schwarz serves as Music Director of the All-Star Orchestra, Eastern Music Festival, Palm Beach Symphony, and Mozart Orchestra of New York and is Conductor Laureate of the Seattle Symphony and Conductor Emeritus of the Mostly Mozart Festival. He joined EMF as Music Advisor in 2005, became Principal Conductor in 2006, and music director in 2008. 2022 marks GERARD SCHWARZ’ 18th year with Eastern Music Festival (EMF).
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