2015 Vienna New Years Concert, Johann Strauss Jr - Explosions, Polka Op.43. Wiener Philharmoniker and Zubin Mehta., - Zubin Mehta was born in 1936 in Bombay and received his first musical education under his father’s Mehli Mehta’s guidance who was a noted concert violinist and the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. In 1954 he left for Vienna, where he eventually entered the conducting program under Hans Swarowsky at the Akademie für Musik. Zubin Mehta won the Liverpool International Conducting Competition in 1958 and was also a prize-winner of the summer academy at Tanglewood. By 1961 he had already conducted the Vienna, Berlin and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras and has recently celebrated 50 years of musical collaboration with all three ensembles.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 17:59:09 +0000