GERARD SCHWARZ
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Gerard Schwarz


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​Gramophone Feature

January 22, 2021 – Maestro Schwarz follows up his cover article in Gramophone's July 2019 issue (Forgotten symphonies: the hidden giants of American music) with The European Giants of American Music in Gramophone's February 2021 issue.

"For the July 2019 issue of Gramophone, I wrote about some of my favourite neglected American works from the middle of the 20th century and was so happy to receive many comments and ideas of other works and composers to include. Most were certainly worthy and I was excited to see such a lively discussion. Now I am endeavouring to tackle what is, in some ways, a more difficult article – about composers from the same time period who emigrated to the United States during the first half of that century. Many of those emigrants came to the US to escape the Nazis in the 1930s and '40s..."

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News

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Emmy® Awards
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MAY 5, 2019 – Yesterday, “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band under the direction of Maestro Schwarz and in partnership with the All-Star Orchestra (ASO) on Thirteen WNET New York took home an Emmy® Award. New England Spirit, a program featuring William Schuman’s iconic work, New England Triptych, won in the category: Special Event Coverage (Other than News and Sports). Support included Habib Azar (Video Producer and Director), Marine Band Director Col. Jason K. Fettig (Audio Director), Andrew Mayatskiy (Video Editor), and Paul Schwendener (Executive Director). This is the 7th Emmy® Award to be won by ensembles under Maestro Schwarz's direction.  Learn more...

Above photo with Paul Schwendener (Executive Director of the All-Star Orchestra) and Col. Jason K. Fettig (Audio Director).

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Gerard Schwarz Joins The Frost School of Music
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APRIL 9, 2019 – The Frost School of Music at the University of Miami has appointed Gerard Schwarz as Distinguished Professor of Music; Conducting and Orchestral Studies. The announcement was made by Shelton G. Berg, Dean of the Frost School of Music. Schwarz will assume his position in the fall of 2019, and he will be a full-time member of the faculty as Professor of Practice in the Department of Instrumental Performance. Read more from the Frost School of Music here.

Watch a video from Jerry about the announcement here.



In the Media


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In Print

Gramophone
Cover Story


July 2019 — Maestro Schwarz is featured on the cover of Gramophone's July issue with his article, The Hidden Giants of American Music. He 
contributes his thoughts on rarely-heard, mid-20th-century American composers and symphonies - in particular his love and respect for Paul Creston's Third, William Schuman's Third, Alan Hovhannes's Second, David Diamond's Second, Howard Hanson's Third, Peter Mennin's Third, and Walter Piston's Fourth. 

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​In Print & Podcast

National Review
A Maestro Ambassador


June 2019 — "Gerard Schwarz is an exemplary musician. He was a hotshot trumpeter — one of the best in the world. Then he became a leading conductor. For many years, he led the Seattle Symphony, and also the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York. He has led other institutions too. Now he is going to the Palm Beach Symphony. I joke that this is a 'hardship post.'

In addition to being a superb player and conductor, he is an outstanding — really good — talker about music, and teacher of music. There is more than a little Bernstein in him. (He knew the late maestro and played under him in the New York Philharmonic.)"
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In Print & Online

The New Yorker
The Return of Mid-Century American Symphonies

Oct 23, 2017 — "The conductor Gerard Schwarz’s upcoming concert with the Juilliard Orchestra, at Alice Tully Hall on Thursday, highlights an essential but overlooked period of American composition: the great mid-twentieth-century symphonies.

Well, three decades later, while Barber and Bernstein have become fixtures of the American repertory, both here and abroad, Schuman, Diamond, and Piston have not been so lucky... One person who never got the message is the distinguished conductor Gerard Schwarz, now a free agent after long stints as the music director of the Seattle Symphony and the Mostly Mozart Festival, who has spent a lifetime advocating for the American symphonic school."
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Composing
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Seattle Legacy
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On Record
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Commissioning

About Jerry

Gerard Schwarz serves as Music Director of the All-Star Orchestra and the Eastern Music Festival and joined The Frost School Of Music in fall 2019 as Distinguished Professor Of Music; Conducting And Orchestral Studies. Schwarz  completed his 26th and final season as Seattle Symphony Music Director in 2011 and now serves as its Conductor Laureate. His previous positions as Music Director include New York’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the New York Chamber Symphony.

Recent Projects

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Maestro Schwarz directs the United States Marine Band in an All-Star Orchestra series of three programs airing on public broadcasting stations across the nation in November. Learn more here.

Useful Links

Frost School of Music

All-Star Orchestra


Eastern Music Festival

Khan Academy

G, Schirmer, Inc.

Seattle Symphony

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AOR Management, Inc.
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8VA Music Consultancy

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