a tempo Summer 2008

Dorothy E. and DuWayne H. Hansen Musical Arts Series Guest Announced

Benjamin Zander

Benjamin Zander, conductor, teacher and speaker, teaches on faculty of the New England Conservatory and is Artistic Director of the joint program between NEC and Walnut Hill, a boarding school for the Performing Arts. During his thirty-five year tenure as conductor of the New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic he has taken the orchestra on 13 international tours, made five commercial recordings and several television documentaries for PBS. Zander is conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. The BPO has recorded five extremely succesful CDs, all of which are listed in the Penguin Guide of the Best recordings of the Past 20 years. Zander has established an international reputation as a guest conductor and has a unique relationship with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London with whom he is recording a series of Beethoven and Mahler symphonies for the Telarc label. Zander also has an extensive speaking career, traveling the world lecturing to organizations on leadership. The best-selling book, The Art of Possibility, co-authored with his partner, leading psychotherapist Rosamund Zander, has been translated into sixteen languages.

More information about the Hansen Musical Arts Series is available on the Hansen Musical Arts Series Web site.

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