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Jun 28, 2019 · Jonathan Sheffer is a Grammy-nominated composer and conductor whose diverse career in music spans the worlds of classical, opera, dance, and film and television.
Composer and conductor Jonathan Sheffer has had a diverse career in music, spanning the worlds of classical, opera, dance, and film and television. Born in New York City, Sheffer graduated from Harvard University, where his teachers included Leonard Bernstein, and later attended The Juilliard Extension School and the Aspen School of Music.
Aug 22, 2008 · Jonathan Sheffer, conductor and composer, founded the Eos Orchestra in 1995 as a ‘laboratory of new programming ideas’ and as part of his ongoing quest to address the question of what constitutes a concert of classical music in contemporary times.
Composer and conductor Jonathan Sheffer has had a diverse career in music, in the worlds of classical, opera, dance, and film and television. His composition includes works for orchestra ...
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Mar 15, 2016 · Depicting 12th-century Persian poet Farid ud-Din Attar’s dramatic narrative, New York-based composer and GRAMMY-nominated conductor Jonathan Sheffer presents his orchestral work The Conference of...
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Jonathan Sheffer is known for Sphere (1998), Demolition Man (1993) and Highlander II: The Quickening (1991).
Jonathan Sheffer (JS): That’s exhausting. [Laughter] I was trying to think of the best way to phrase it. His compositional pieces have been the focus of a 1999 Guggenheim Works in Progress series, and his opera, Blood on the Dining Room Floor, enjoyed critically acclaimed success as well.
