Learn more about the founder and conductor of the Boston Philharmonic. For the past 50 years, Benjamin Zander has occupied a unique place as a master teacher, deeply insightful and probing interpreter, and as a profound source of inspiration for audiences, students, professional musicians, corporate leaders, and politicians around the world.
He has persistently engaged well-informed musical and public intellectuals in a quest for insight and understanding into the western musical canon and the underlying spiritual, social, and political issues that inspired its creation.
Zander started his musical life as a composer and cellist. He's a world-renowned conductor of Beethoven and Mahler; he's a best-selling author who jets around the planet giving talks on leadership to foreign governments and corporations; and he recorded a viral TED Talk that has gotten nearly 11 million views.
All that powers his mission to turn everyone on to classical music and its power to brighten the eyes and lift the soul. Q: You wanted to put a copy of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony into the hands of every human being. Is that still a dream? A: My first wife, a great musician, said, "Ben, you're a fool. Classical music is for an elite group of people.
Don't waste your time trying to make it available to ordinary people. I don't believe that. I think anybody can respond to it. They just need a little guidance, so I provide the guidance. A: Well, there are 30 million people in China alone who play the piano and 10 million violinists.
In Mexico, they've got 85 youth orchestras. Classical music is spreading like the plague. There are more people listening to it now than ever in the history of the world.
When you watch television and they're selling an expensive object, what are they using? Visit Benjamin Zander Website. Wiki and Biography world. British Musician. Sign in. Welcome, Login to your account. Forget password? Remember me. On the merits of his imaginative interpretive ideas and solid podium technique, he became practically an overnight sensation -- as he was nearing the age of 60!
He demonstrated remarkable musical talent in his early childhood and even began composing at the age of nine; his burgeoning artistry on the cello was also of a rare caliber. Eventually he attracted the notice of Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst , daughter of composer Gustav Holst , both of whom began teaching young Benjamin. At the age of fifteen, Zander left England, eventually to take up studies on the cello with Gaspar Cassado.
He then toured Europe giving many highly successful concerts before finally deciding to return to England to enroll at the University College London.
After graduation, he traveled to the U. Zander has lived in Boston since the mid-'60s and he began teaching there at the New England Conservatory in In the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra was founded and Zander appointed its music director, a post he still holds in the season. While both he and the orchestra remained in relative obscurity for their first 15 or so years, together they began to garner considerable recognition in the s, both in the concert hall and on recordings.
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