Andrejs jansons biography of mahatma

1938-2022
Conductor, composer, educator, oboist

Born on 2 October 1938 in Rīga. At the end of the Second World War, he and his parents escaped to Germany as refugees, emigrating to the US in 1949.

Gained his initial musical education at Norfolk City High School in Virginia, learning oboe. He continued his education at the Juilliard Music School, obtaining a bachelor’s degree (1960). In parallel, improved his oboe skills at the Italian State Conservatory in Venice, under an Italian government scholarship.

Since 1960, has played the oboe and cor anglais in the Pittsburgh and Baltimore symphony orchestras, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, American Ballet Theatre and in the Joffrey Ballet Orchestra, the Phoenix Woodwind Quintet of New York, while lecturing at Rutgers University, later Fordham and California State universities.

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