Lawrence Foster
Lawrence Foster is an American conductor who has been music director of several
major orchestras from California to Monaco to Spain and Israel and guest
conductor of many others around the world. He has exhibited a special interest
in the works of contemporary composers including Paul McCartney, whose oratorio
'Standing Stone' he conducted with the London Symphony Orchestra in the Royal
Albert Hall. A recording of the performance was released in 1997.
Born in Los Angeles to a family from Romania, he took up the baton as a
teenager, studied with Fritz Zweig, Karl Böhm and Bruno...
