Prolific conductor and composer José Serebrier has achieved international
acclaim as a composer and conductor with a vast number of appearances in concert
and on recordings. He won attention as a young man when he received a US State
Department Fellowship to move from his home in Uruguay to study in America. He
studied with Bohuslav Martinu, Vittorio Giannini and Aaron Copland and won
awards for his compositions. Endowments and commissions followed and after a
stint as apprentice conductor with the Minnesota Orchestra, at 22 he was named
by Leopold Stokowski as associate conducto...