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David Nice

July 2022

  • Samson et Dalila, Opera North’s opening production in 1978, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones, with Gilbert Py as Samson and Katherine Pring as Dalila.

    David Lloyd-Jones obituary

    Founding conductor of Opera North and a champion of Russian operas and British symphonies

June 2018

  • FILE - Russian Conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky Dies Aged 87 Gennady Rozhdestvensky, principal conductor of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra performs at the 1966 London Promenade Concerts or Proms in the Royal Albert Hall, London. (Photo by Erich Auerbach/Getty Images)

    Gennady Rozhdestvensky obituary

    Inspirational Russian maestro who served as principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the late 1970s

June 2017

  • Jiri Belohlavek for G2 arts

    Jiří Bělohlávek obituary

    One of the great Czech conductors hailed for his luminous interpretations of Janáček and Martinů

December 2015

  • Conductor Kurt Masur dies<br>epa05075447 A picture dated 10 October 2010 shows Kurt Masur as the conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra at a concert in the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany. According to media reports on 19 December 2015, German conductor Kurt Masur has died aged 88 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA. EPA/WOLFGANG KLUGE

    Kurt Masur obituary

    Conductor who rose from the closed musical scene of East Germany to become an international figure

July 2014

  • Lorin Maazel

    Lorin Maazel obituary

    Distinguished conductor with an all-encompassing love of operatic and concert life

January 2014

  • Claudio Abbado in 2001.

    Claudio Abbado obituary

    One of the world's finest conductors, with La Scala, the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonics, and his own orchestra in Lucerne

April 2013

  • Sir Colin Davis

    Sir Colin Davis obituary

    Interpreter of international renown in music from Mozart to Tippett, and the supreme exponent of Berlioz

September 2011

  • Kurt Sanderling

    Kurt Sanderling obituary

    German conductor renowned for his interpretations of the music of his friend Shostakovich

July 2010

  • Noëlle Mann

    Noëlle Mann obituary

    Leading scholar and champion of the works of Prokofiev

August 2009

  • Hildegard Behrens

    Hildegard Behrens

    Obituary: Operatic soprano acclaimed for her interpretations of Wagner and Strauss

December 2008

  • Obituary: Valentin Berlinsky

    The celebrated cellist was a renowned intrepreter of the works of Shostakovich and, as part of the Borodin Quartet, played everywhere from Stalin's funeral to sell-out US tours

April 2005

  • Sixten Ehrling

    Obituary: Swedish conductor famed for technique and timing.

October 2004

  • Heinz Wallberg

    Obituary: The versatile German conductor with a flair for rare repertoire.

September 2004

  • Hans Vonk

    Dutch conductor renowned above all for his Bruckner interpretations.

May 2002

  • Yevgeny Svetlanov

    Russian conductor and composer with devoted following in the west.

April 2002

  • Mark Ermler

    Among the last of the expansive, old-school Russian conductors, Mark Ermler has died of kidney failure at the age of 69, three days after collapsing at a rehearsal with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.

April 2001

  • Giuseppe Sinopoli

    Italian composer and conductor whose analytical approach to masterpieces led to a love-hate relationship with the British public and critics.

June 1999

  • Ilya Musin

    Music-lovers in the west might never have known the name of Ilya Musin, who has died aged 95. His invaluable treatises on conducting, as one of the century's greatest teachers of the art, remain untranslated from the Russian, and his dedication to study meant that he gave few public performances, even when, in the later years of his life, there was an audience eager to hear them.
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