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Welcome to the aMUSIClassical directory Performing Artists Database Soloists, conductors and Ensembles.
MAJOR performing artists of the past and present, with date of birth, death,
nationality and pronunciation.
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Performing Artists "S" Continued
- Seaman, C (7 MAR - )Eng=Con
- SEATTLE
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
- Sebestyen, Janos (YAH nohsh SHEH beh styen) ( - )
-
Sebok, Gyorgy (gay OR gee seh BAHK) (Szeged, 2 NOV 1922 - Bloomington, IN, 14 NOV 1999 )Hun=P-Prof Univ IN.
- Secombe, Sir H. (7 SEP - )Welsh=Ten
- Sedov,
Denis (St. Petersburg, -)Rus=Bass, MET 1996
- Seefried, Imgaard (IRM gart ZAY freet)( - )
- Seeman, Carl (ZAY' mahnn)
- Segal, Uri (7 MAR - )Isr=Con
- Segar, Kathleen (Dearborn, MI - )Mezzo-Soprano. MET debut 1999-2000
- Segerstam, Leif (Layf SEH ger stahm) ( - )Swed=con
-
Segovia, Andres ( ahn DRAYS seh GOH vee
ah)(21 FEB - )Sp=G
-
Seibel, Klauspeter ( - )Con
- Seiffert, P (4 JAN - )Ger=Ten
- Seipenbush, Edgar (ZY pen boosh) ( - )con
- Selig, Franz-Josef (Mayen, -)Ger=Bass, MET 1998-9
- Sejna, Karol (SHA nah) ( - )Czech=con
- Selfe, Ned (6 MAY 1953 - )AM=G
- Sembrich, M (15 FEB - )Polish=Sop
- Seow, Yitkin ( - )=P
- SEQUOIA STRING QUARTET (suh KWOY ah)
- Serafin, Tulio (TOO' lee oh sair ah FEEN') ( - )IT=C
- Serebrier, Jose (hoy SAY seh ree bree AIR) ( 3 DEC 1938 - )Uruguay=con-com
- Sereni, Mario (MAH ree oh seh RAY nee)( - )It
- Serkin, Peter (PEE ter SIR kin)(24 JUL - )Am=Pianist (son)
- Serkin, Rudolf (ROO dolwlf SIR kin)(28 MAR - )Pol-Am= Pianist (father)
- Sgouros, Dimitris (dee MEE trees ZGOO rohs) (Athens, 30 AUG 1969 - )Gr=P
-
Shafran,
Daniil ( 13 JAN 1923 - 7 FEB 1997)Rus=C
-
Shaham, Gil ( -
)=V (brother)
(SHA'
ham)(Family
pronunciation).
- Shaham, Hagai ( - ) =V
- Shaham, Orli ( - )Am=P (sister>
- Shands, Patricia, =CL
- Shankar, Ravi (7 APR - )In=Sitar
- Shaulis, Jane (Belleville, NJ - )Am=Sop, MET 1991
-
Shaw, Robert Lawson
( Red
Bluff,
CA 30 APR 1916 - New Haven, CT 25 JAN 1999 )CA = Choral Cond.,
Atlanta Sym.
- Shawndeya (12 OCT 1942) Chicago-AM = Harpist
-
Sharapova,
Irina ( - )Rus-Pianist
-
Shelley, Howard ( 9 MAR - )Eng=P-Cond
- Shelton,
Lucy (22 FEB - )Am=Sop
- Shenandoah, Joanne (Native)AM=VOC=G=FL=Com
- Sheppard, C (26 NOV - )Am=P
- Sherman, R ( - )P
-
Shevelevich,
Olga( - )Rus-harpist
- Shicoff, Niel (2 JUN - )Am=Ten
- Shimell, W. (23 SEP - )Eng=Bar
- Shin, Youngok (Seoul, - )Kor=Sop, MET 1991
-
Shirley, George (18 APR 1932 - )Am=Ten
- Shirley-Quirk, John (2 AUG - )Eng=Bar (husband)
- Shirley-Quirk,
Sara Watkins ( - )oboe-cond. (wife>
- Shostakovich, Maxim (mahk SEEM sha stah KOH vitch) (10 MAY - )Rus-Con (Son of Dimitri s.)
- Shouse, Catherine Filene ( 1896 - 1994) Am-Arts patron
- Shouse, Catherine Filene ( - )Am=
- Shumsky, Oscar (Phila, 23 MAR 1917 - Rye, NY, 24 JUL 2000)
Am=Violinist, cond., teacher. New
York Times, Obit
- Sidwell, M (23 FEB - )Eng=Con-Org
- Siepe, Cesare (CHAY sah ray see EH pee)It=ten
-
Silbermann, Gottfried ( - )Ger=Organ builder
- Silins, Egils (Liegatne, Latvia - )Bass. MET debut 1999-2000
- Silja, Anja
(AHN yah SEEL yah) ( - )sop
- Sills, Beverly (25 MAY - )AM=SOP
- Silva,
Luigi (13 NOV 1903 - 1961)It=C
- Silverstein, Joseph (SIL ver styn) ( - )Am=V-con
- Silvestri, C (13 MAY - )Rom-Eng=Con-Com
- Simionato, Giulietta (joo LYET tah see MYO NAH tah)
- Simon, Abbey (Ah bee SY min) ( - ) P
Moores's School of Music, Faculty
-
Sinadinovic,
Dejan Pianist
-
SINFONIA 21 founded
1989 as Docklands Sinfonietta London. Martyn Brabbins, prin. cond.
-
SINFONIA
VARSOVIA Warsaw Poland (In Polish)
- Singher, Martial (mar syahl sahn gehr)
- Sinopoli, Guiseppi (joo ZEP pay sih NOH poh lee)(Venice, 2 NOV 1946 - Berlin, 20 APR 2001 )It=Con
- Sipkay, Deborah (SHIP ky) ( - )harp
- Sitkovetsky, Dimitri (27 SEP - )Rus=V
- Skok, Heidi (Painesville, OH, - )Am=Sop, MET 1992
-
Skovhus,
Bo (Ikast, - )Dan=Bar, MET 1998-9
- Skrowaczewski, Stanislav (stah NEE swaf skro vah CHEFF skee)(3 OCT - )Pol-Am=Con-Com
-
Skwortsow,
Alexander ( - )=V
- Slatkin,
Felix ( 1915 - 1963 )AM= Cond (Father of Leonard)
- Slatkin, Leonard
( 1 SEP 1944 - )Am = Cond-St.Louis Sym Orch
-
Slavny, Andrei (
- )Rus-baritone
- Slencynska, Ruth (slen ZINS kah)
- Slonimsky, Nicolas (27 APR 1894 - 25,26 or 27 DEC 1995 )
Writer-Baker's Bio Dictionary Editor
- Slovak,
Ladislav (LAH dih slav SLOH vahk)
( 1919 - died in Bratislava )Slovak=con
- Slovik, Kenneth (SLOH wik) ( - )cond.
- Smetacek, Vaclav (VAHT slaf smeh TAH chek) ( - )Czech=con
- Smith, Brooks ( 1912 - Covina, CA 31 OCT 2000)Am=P
NY Times, Obit
- Smith, Darren ( - )
- Smith, Gregg ( - ) Choral Director
-
Smith,
Gregory ( - )Clar=Chicago SO
- Smith, J (13 JUL - )Eng=Sop
- Smith, Phil ( - )Am=trm
- Sobol, Lawrence (SEW bul) ( - )Clarinet
- Soderstrom, Elisabeth (SOH der strom)(Stockholm, 7 MAY - )Swed=Sop, MET
1959
- SOKKELUND SANGKOR Chorus (SOH kuh loond SAHNG kohr)
- Soffel, D (15 MAY - )Ger=MezSop
- Soifertis, Evgeny (Kiev, - )Rus=P
-
Sokolov,
Grigory ( - )Rus=P
- SOLARIS QUARTET Margaret Murphy Agency, UK
- Solea, Maria Mana (MAHn yah mah REE ah soh LAY ah) ( - )
- Solin, Hans (hahns ZOH lin) ( - )
- Sollscher, Goran (GORE in ZOLL cher) ( - )=G
- Solomon, Izler (EYEz ler SAH loh min) ( - ) Cond
- Solomon, Yonty (YAHN tee SAH loh min) (9 AUG - )Eng=P
- Solomonow, Rami, =VA
- Solti, Georg (gay ORG SHOL' tee) (21 OCT 1912 - 4 SEP 1997)
HUNG=C=P
- Solum, John (SOH lum) ( - )flute
- Somary,
Johannes (yoh HAN is soh MAR ee) ( - )Eng=con
- SONI VENTORUM WIND QUINTET (SOH lee vehn TOH rim)
- Sonstevold, Knut (Knoot SOHN stuh vohl) ( - )Sw=harpscd
- Souzay, Gerard (jher ahr soo zay)(8 DEC - )Fr=Bar
-
Sowash,
Bradley (SOH' wash) (3 SEP 1960 - )OH=P=COM
-
Soviero, Diana ( - )Sop
- Spacagna, Maria (Providence, RI - )Am=Sop, MET 1990
-
Spalding, Albert
( - )Am=V
- Spanjaard, Ed (SPAHN yard) ( - )D=P-con
-
Spano, Robert ( - )Am=Cond-Comp-P,
Atlanta Sym, Brooklyn Philh.
- Spanoghe, Viviane (vee Vyahn spah NOH khuh) ( - )cellist
-
Spielberg,
Robin (20 NOV 196?) AM=P=Comp
- Spivakov, Vladimir (12 SEP - )Rus=V-cond
-
St.Clair, Carl ( - )Am=Con
-
St. Petersburg
Male Choir
- STAATSKAPELLE
DRESDEN (SHTAHTS kah peh lah)
- Stacy, Tom ( - )Am-Eng horn
-
Stader, Maria (STAH der) ( - 30 APR 1999) Sop
- STADLER TRIO (SHTAHD ler)
- Staier,
Andreas (scht EYE' er)( 1955 - )P
- Stamitz, J. W. (19 JAN - )Bohemian=V-Com
- Stanciu, Simion (SEE mohn STAHN choo) ( - )panflute
- Standage, Simon (8 NOV - )Eng=V
- Starker, Janos (YAH nohsh STAR ker)(5 JUL - )Hung-Am=Cel
- Steber, Eleanor(STEE ber) ( 1914 - 1990 ) Sop
-
Steel-Perkins,
Crispian
( - ) =trumpet
- Stefano, Guiseppi (24 JUL - )It=Ten
- Stein, Horst (Shtein)( - )con
- Steinberg, W (1 AUG - )Ger-Am=Con
- Stengaard, Frode (FROH deh STEN gohr) ( - )
- Stenz, M (28 FEB - )Ger=Con
-
Stern, Isaac (21 JUL - )Rus-Am=V
- Stevenson, Tony (Greenville, SC - )Am=Ten, MET 1993
- Stich-Randall, Teresa (tuh REE sah stik RAN dull) (24 DEC - )Am-Sop
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz (KARL hynz STOK how zen ( - )Ger=con
- Stockigh, Siegfried (SEEG'freed Shteh KEET) ( - ) P
-
Stokowski, Leopold (lay oh polt stoh KOF
skee) (London, 18 APR 1881 -
1977)Eng-Am=Con
-
Stockton, Rick ( - )Am=V
- Stoltzman, Richard (stolts man)(12 JUL - )Am=Clar
- Stolze, Gerhard (GEHR hard SHTOHL tsuh) (1926 - 1979 )Ger-Ten
- Stone, William (Goldsboro, NC - )Am=Bar, MET 1998
- Stott, Kathryn (10 DEC - )Eng=P
- Stradivari, F (1 FEB - )It=V maker
- Straka, Peter (Zlin, - )Czech=Ten, MET 1991
- Strange, Alison ( - )ENG=V
- Strano, Francesco (frahn CHES koh STRAH noh) ( - )
- Stratas, Teresa (26 MAY - )Can=Sop
- Stratta, Ettore (eh TOR ray STRAH tah)( - )con
- Strauss, Richard ( 11 JUN 1864 - 8 SEP 1949)Ger=Cond-P-Comp.
- Streich, Rita (REE tah SHTRIK) (18 DEC - )Ger=Sop
- Stroutsos, Gary (STROW' sus) (19 JUL 1954)VT AM=FL
- Struckmann, Falk (Heilbronn, - )Ger=Bar, MET 1997
- Stryja, Karol (KAH rol STREE yah)Pol=Con
- Studebaker, Thomas (Danville, IL - )Am=Ten, MET 1997
-
Studer, Carol (24 OCT - )
Am=Sop
- SUDDEUTSCHE PHILHARMONIK - South German Radio -
Stuttgart
- SUISSE ROMANDE ORCH (swis roh MAHN ) Amsterdam
- Suitner, Atmar (AHT' mar SWEET' ner)Ger=Opera Dir
- Suk,
Joseph (YOH zef sook) (8 AUG - )Czech=V
-
Sullivan, Maireid ( - ) =Voc
- Summers, J (2 OCT - )Australian=Bar
- Summers, Patrick (Washington, IN - )Am=Cond, MET 1998-9
- Supervia, Conchita (kon CHEE tah soo per VEE ah) (9 DEC -
)Sp=MezSop
- Susskind, Walter (SOOS kind)(1 MAY - )Czech-Am=Con
-
Sutherland, Dame Joan (7
NOV - )Australian=Sop - (m=R. Bonyng-Con)
- Suzuki, Hidemi and Ichiro (ee CHEE roh & hee DEH mee soo ZOO jkee)
- SVESHNIKOV CHORUS (SVESH nee kof)
- Svetlanov, Evgeny (vef GAY nee svet LAH nof)(6 SEP 1928 -
)Rus=Con-Com
- Swarowsky, Hans (hahns svah ROFF skee)( - )Pol=cond
- Sweet, Sharon (Gloversville, NY - )Am=Sop, MET 1990
- Swenson, Joseph ( - )=V-Cond.
-
Swenson,
Ruth Anne (Bronxville, NY - )Am=Soprano, MET 1988
- Swierczewski, Michel (mee shel shver CHEV skee) ( - )Pol=con
-
Sykes, Jubilant ( - )Am=Singer
- Sylvester, Michael (Nobelville, IN - )Am=Ten, MET 1991
- Szabo, Imrich (EEM reek SAH boh) ( - )
- Szabo, Miklos (MEE klosh SAH boh) ( - )
- Szecsodi, Ferenc (FEH rehents SEH choh dee) ( - )
- Szekely, Istvan =P
- Szelecsenyi, Norbert (SEH leh chen yee) ( - )
-
Szell, George (Gyorgie)
(Budapest,
7 JUN 1897
- Cleveland, 30 JUL 1970
)Hung-Am=Con-P-Com - Cleveland O
- Szerynk, Henryk (AHN' rik SHEAR' ing)
( Zelazova Wola, 22 SEP 1918 - Kassel, Germany 3 MAR 1988 )Pol-Mex=V
aka HENRYK SZERYNG
Violin
- Szigeti, Joseph (YOH zef SIH geh tee)( - )
On The Violin
- Szokolay, Balazs (BAH lahz SOH koh lee)
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