Music Director and Principal Conductor of American Symphony Orchestra and The Orchestra Now of Bard College, a scholar – an expert in the history of European music.
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The Orchestra Now (TŌN) is an innovative pre-professional orchestra and master’s degree program at Bard College that is preparing a new generation of musicians to break down barriers between modern audiences and great orchestral music of the past and present.
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An American pianist, faculty member at the Aaron Copland School of Music, the author of dissertation “The Solo Piano Music of Karol Rathaus.” His multiple performances and recordings include the world premiere recording of Rathaus’ Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, performed with JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Promotion Executve at Boosey and Hawkes, the largest specialist classical music publishing company in the world. Boosey and Hawkes published a large number of Karol Rathaus’ compositions, with Frank Harders being one of Rathaus’ major champions.
Award winning record producer, author of “Frobidden Music: Jewish composers banned by the Nazis”, senior researcher at the “exile.arte Zentrum” at Vienna University for Music and Performance Arts.
Senior Lecturer in Music at the Department of Music University of Bristol, UK. Dr. Scheding work focuses on the displacement of European music and musicians caused by the catastrophes of the 20th century. His recent book, “Musical Journeys: Performing Migration in 20th-century Music” received the Royal Musical Association/Cambridge University Press Monograph Prize 2020.
Polish Pianist, Chamber musician, Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Silesia, the founder of Karol Rathaus Ensemble, and Karol Rathaus Foundation
Leon Hyman, the oldest of Rathaus’ students, is a successful conductor, who worked with New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. He is a cofounder, principal conductor and music director of the New Philharmonic of New Jersey.
Composer Allen Brings studied composition with Karol Rathaus, Otto Luening, Gardner Read, and Rodger Sessions. His published compositions, include works for orchestra, band, chorus, a wide variety of chamber ensembles, piano, organ, harpsichord, guitar, and voice.
“I commuted to Queens College from the Bronx to study with Karol Rathaus”, said George Sturm, who later became a successful music publisher, a founder of Music Associates of America .
Born in Galicia, Spain, Iria Folgado is one of the most relevant oboists of her generation. She is currently the principal cor anglais of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Folgado has released her debut album ‘Ecos de Breogán’ (Poliédrica 2023), featuring the performance of Phantasy Quartet by Benjamin Britten, with Sara Areal (violin), Héctor Cámara (viola), and Iago Domínguez (cello).
Polish-Canadian pianist Daniel Vnukowski has performed throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia in prestigious concert halls. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the “Collingwood Music Festival.” Since November 1, 2021, Mr. Vnukowski has been radio announcer of the Classical Jukebox on the New Classical FM, the only full-time classical radio station in English-speaking Canada.
Dr. Henry L. Feingold is one of America’s distinguished scholars on the American Holocaust witness role and the reaction of the American Jewry to the Holocaust. In this area, his most important works are The Politics of Rescue: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust, 1938-1945(1971) and, more recently, Bearing Witness, How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust (1995). Dr. Feingold is also recognized as one of the foremost students of American Jewry. Dr. Feingold passed away in 2024 at the age of 93.
A pianist renown for his performances as a soloist, conductor and chamber musician as well as multipole recordings including critically acclaimed recording of Rathaus piano works. Stoupel has performed among others with Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and appeared on such stages as Berlin’s Philharmonie and Konzerthaus, Avery Fisher Hall in New York, and National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Dr. Frühauf specializes in the history of Jewish music in Western Europe. She is the author of The Organ and Its Music in German-Jewish Culture (Oxford University Press, 2009/2012), and editor of An Anthology of German-Jewish Organ Music (A-R Editions, 2013, nominated for the Claude V. Palisca Award for Outstanding Edition), and Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture (OUP, 2014).
A close personal friend of Rathaus’ family. She passed away on May 26, 2016 several weeks after she graciously agreed to be interviewed for this film.
June is a widow of Karol Rathaus’ son Bernt
