Age Quote by Kurt Masur

If anything, when I was young, I wanted to be an orchestra.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.

— Summer Glau

I first heard Mahler's second symphony aged 11 in Liverpool, and it inspired me to become a conductor.

— Simon Rattle

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high…

— Arthur Godfrey

My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations,…

— Gunther Schuller

I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my…

— Laura Mvula

I went to study some orchestration stuff because I got so inspired working with all the orchestras.

— Dido Armstrong

I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I…

— Carla Azar

I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I…

— Carla Azar

You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to…

— Kurt Masur

In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahmss four symphonies and Richard Strausss tone poems.

— Zubin Mehta

I was playing in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as principal horn. I was there for some 15 years - one of the most exciting…

— Gunther Schuller