Jazz Band Classic is a program of the award-winning New York Youth Symphony, an independent program providing the metropolitan areas best young musicians with programs in orchestra, chorus, chamber music, composition, and conducting in addition to jazz. Among its alumni are Marin Alsop, Cho-Liang Lin, Shlomo Mintz, Gerard Schwarz, Ransom Wilson, and members of the Juilliard, Emerson, and Mendelssohn String Quartets, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Past conductors include Leonard Slatkin, Myung-Whun Chung, David Alan Miller, Samuel Wong, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, and Mischa Santora.
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Added by clmgarage on January 11, 2008