biography
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DePreist, James (Anderson)
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Symphony conductor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The nephew of Marian Anderson, he studied at the University of Pennsylvania (1958) and completed his musical studies at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music (1961). He then served with the US State Department as a specialist in American music and as a conductor in Bangkok, Thailand (1963–4). In 1964 he won first prize in the Mitropoulos competition, and that year made his American debut as a conductor with the New York Philharmonic. He went on to conduct many major symphony orchestras, making his European debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic (1969) and enjoying special associations with the National Symphony in Washington, DC, and L'Orchestre Symphonique de Québec. Since 1980 he has been musical director and conductor of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra in Portland. |
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