Markand thakar biography of michael
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Markand thakar biography of michael
Markand Thakar
American conductor (born )
Markand Thakar (born , New York City) is an American conductor and music director emeritus of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra (BCO).
Biography
From the age of six, Markand Thakar attended the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division, where he was a piano student of Leonora B.
Pardee and a violin student of Christine Dethier. He also studied composition privately with Suzanne Bloch and Noah Creshevsky. Additional instrumental studies during summers at The Quartet Program included violin with Charles Castleman, viola with Heidi Castleman and Paul Doktor, and chamber music with Josef Gingold, Norman Carol, Renato Bonancini, Samuel Mayes, and the Tokyo Quartet.
Thakar earned the Bachelor of Music degree in from Juilliard, with a major in composition as a student of Vincent Persichetti and Milton Babbitt, and a minor in violin performance as a student of Christine Dethier. After two years of private study of counterpoint and conductin