John Nelson
The son of Protestant missionaries, American conductor John Nelson was born on
December 6, 1941, in San José, Costa Rica. He began studying piano while living
in Central America and continued those studies when his family moved back to the
US and settled in Illinois. He attended the Juilliard School in New York from
1963 to 1967 to study conducting with Jean Morel and won the Irving Berlin
Prize. He made his debut with the New York Chamber Orchestra and then conducted
Berlioz's Les Troyens in a concert version at Carnegie Hall in 1972. He
premiered Britten Owen’s Wingrave at the ...
