Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India (now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
Occupation
Conductor
Years active
1958–present
Known for
Directing and conducting: Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Los Angeles Philharmonic; New York Philharmonic; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Spouses
Carmen Lasky
(m. 1958; div. 1964)
Nancy Kovack
(m. 1969)
Children
4
Parent
Mehli Mehta (father)
Relatives
Zarin Mehta (brother)
Website
zubinmehta.net
Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and conductor emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Mehta's father was the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra, and Mehta received his early musical education from him. When he was 18, he enrolled in the Vienna state music academy, from which he graduated after three years with a diploma as a conductor. He began winning international competitions and conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic at age 21. Beginning in the 1960s, Mehta gained experience by substituting for celebrated maestros throughout the world.
Mehta was music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967 and of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1962 to 1978, the youngest music director ever for any major North American orchestra. In 1969, he was appointed Music Adviser to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and in 1981 he became its Music Director for Life. From 1978 to 1991, Mehta was music director of the New York Philharmonic. He was chief conductor of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence from 1985 to 2017.
He is an honorary citizen of both Florence and Tel Aviv and was made an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera in 1997 and of the Bavarian State Opera in 2006. The title of Honorary Conductor was bestowed on him by numerous orchestras throughout the world. More recently, Mehta made several tours with the Bavarian State Opera and kept up a busy schedule of guest conducting appearances. In December 2006, he received the Kennedy Center Honor and in October 2008 he was honored by the Japanese Imperial Family with the Praemium Imperiale.
In 2016, Mehta was appointed Honorary Conductor of the Teatro San Carlo, Naples.
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European premiere in Vienna in 2016 under the patronage of conductor ZubinMehta, and its U.S. premiere a year later. Deutscher's piano concerto was premiered...
the 1980s and released his second concerto, Raga Mala, conducted by ZubinMehta, in 1981. Shankar was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original...
His work has earned him 16 Grammy Award nominations, third only to ZubinMehta and Snoop Dogg for the record of most nominations for the award without...
award which was received by his wife Sukanya Shankar. Music conductor ZubinMehta received the Tagore Award For Cultural Harmony for the year 2013 in recognition...
playing Chopin's two piano concertos with the New York Philharmonic under ZubinMehta and the first piano recital in Carnegie Hall's centennial season. In...
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in several recording sessions of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under ZubinMehta. It serves as one of the home venues for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra...
Robinson was one of five Kennedy Center honorees, along with Dolly Parton, ZubinMehta, Steven Spielberg and Andrew Lloyd Webber. On March 20, 2009, the Miracles...
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English-language Indian film directed by Cyrus Bharucha and starring ZubinMehta, Paul Shelley, Saeed Jaffrey, Amrish Puri, with Nigel Terry as Zarathustra...
converted to Judaism. Acting as one of the witnesses was the conductor ZubinMehta, a long-time friend of Barenboim. Since "I was not Jewish I had to temporarily...
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José Carreras, Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti with conductor ZubinMehta. The album was recorded on 7 July 1990 in Rome, Italy, as the first Three...
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