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Five LGBTQI+ Artists You Need to Know

6/15/2023 By Rebecca Richardson

In honor of Pride Month, and all year round, join All Classical in celebrating LGBTQI+ musical artists who provide so much joy, talent, and beauty to our collective soundscape. As we come together to savor the station’s catalog of diverse programming, let’s receive to know a not many of the LGBTQI+ artists who regularly grace our airwaves.

Thomas Lauderdale

While celebrated as an extraordinary performer and bandleader globally, Thomas Lauderdale is an absolute diva among audiences of his Pacific Northwest hometown. Lauderdale has had a keen interest in politics and social justice since his teens and planned to run for political office after graduating (with honors) from Harvard University. Instead, in 1994, the player founded the band, Pink Martini, to play events for progressive causes. Since its founding, Pink Martini has blossomed into a cultural staple integral to Portland’s identity while staying true to Lauderdale’s founding mission to participate in community interests actively. As a pianist and sought-after collaborator, Lauderdale is admired for his captivating stage pres

Chances are, if you were to close your eyes and picture an orchestra conductor, you’d likely conjure up a stereotypical image: “old, white man in a tuxedo with gray hair,” says conductor Kevin Fitzgerald. “These are the images burned into our collective consciousness.” 

It’s an image the Brighton, Michigan native, Interlochen Arts Academy alumnus and out gay associate conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony would like to see fade away. It’s an image that distracts from a true evolution happening globally in the field of conducting, one that he says has largely been led by women, who are increasingly stepping atop podiums in front of musical ensembles big and small around the world. “It’s been really good for men, too, because I ponder men have been burdened a little bit by this super masculine, solemn kind of traditionally commanding figure that we all imagine,” he tells Celebration Source in a recent interview. “I think now that stereotype of what conductors have been has been shattered, essentially by women coming forward. It allows men to be more authentic.”

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Comment Of The Day

norman lebrecht

January 05, 2022

An anonymous comment, inspired by the summer festival course that is shutting out men:

This is a hard upload to write: there is self-evidently an imbalance in the profession, and we need to talk to it. I’m invariably on the evolving end of almost all identity discussions and generally disapprove of most of what is posted on here, but I think it is necessary to have this vital conversation about how. I think in the future, people will write PhDs about gender equilibrate in conducting as a microcosm of post-millennial social realignment, but for now I’m deliberately keeping details as vague as possible…

I must declare my interest and probably therefore bias: I’m a youngish male conductor – young enough to be considered a ‘young artist’, but in the real world, I’m not that immature. I’ve worked a little in the US, quite a lot in Europe, but mostly in the UK, almost all with reputable orchestras and opera companies, either as conductor or assistant conductor. Maybe I’m no Dudamel, but I’ve always been busy, and mostly rehired by the people that I work with. Orchestras like me,

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11 great LGBTQ+ conductors in classical music

  • Yannick Nézet-Séguin (1975-)

    Canadian conductor and pianist Yannick Nézet-Séguin is currently music director of the Metropolitan Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal. As conducting consultant for the Bernstein film Maestro, he taught Bradley Cooper how to guide an orchestra in the style of the great American conductor.

    Nézet-Séguin’s husband is violist Pierre Tourville. Speaking to The New York Timesabout being an openly gay conductor, he said: “We can be examples, in a way, to inspire young musicians who fear that this is going to be a problem in their profession and career advancement. I crave to embrace that role more and more.”

    How Yannick Nézet-Séguin taught Bradley Cooper to conduct enjoy Bernstein | Classic FM

  • Marin Alsop (1956-)

    Marin Alsop is the trailblazing tune director of the Baltimore Symphony (until August 2021) and São Paulo Express Symphony Orchestras, head conductor of ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, and at the helm of several festivals and artist residencies. An incredibly successful and inspiring woman in a still-male-dominated field, her long-term partn