Off Broadway, it's the guy sitting at a piano conducting with his head".
The academy's unique four-year bachelor of music programme offers accredited degrees in all orchestral instruments, piano, conducting and composition.
His mother, Maria, gave him his first piano lessons when he was eight years old; his father, Michelangelo, was a violinist and teacher at the city's Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, where Claudio followed his older brother Marcello, now a distinguished pianist and composer, as a student of piano, conducting and composition.
Mr. Boulez, once the most fearsomely doctrinaire of Europe's postwar composers, was represented by "Sur Incises" (1996-98), a rhythmically vital, hard-driven work for harps, percussion and pianos, conducted by Mr. Benjamin on Sunday evening.
Off in the future is a set of the Beethoven piano concertos conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with whom he rapidly formed a rapport.
This month Mr. Denk, substituting on short notice for Martha Argerich, who was ill, made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Beethoven's First Piano Concerto, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.
Between 1857 and 1860 Brahms moved between the court of Detmold where he taught the piano and conducted a choral society and Göttingen, while in 1859 he was appointed conductor of a women's choir in Hamburg.
Put forward by his teacher Ingolf Dahl, he played piano and conducted in premieres of works by Dahl, Copland, Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen and William Kraft, often with the composer present.
Kim was handed a warning by the I.O.C. over the issue of influence peddling and nepotism, including his son's allegedly sham job and piano recitals conducted by his daughter in various cities bidding on the Games.
But when he found himself at the Hollywood Bowl playing the Grieg Piano Concerto conducted by, of all people, the early-music specialist Christopher Hogwood, after only one rehearsal, he knew that he had to get out.
