music director

Definitions of music director

1. noun

   the person who leads a musical group
   synonyms: conductor, director

   examples:

   Leonard Bernstein

   United States conductor and composer (1918-1990)

   Lord Britten of Aldeburgh

   major English composer of the 20th century; noted for his operas (1913-1976)

   Arthur Fiedler

   popular United States conductor (1894-1979)

   Paul Hindemith

   German neoclassical composer and conductor who believed that music should have a social purpose (1895-1963)

   Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky

   United States conductor (born in Russia) who was noted for performing the works of contemporary composers (1874-1951)

   Leonard Constant Lambert

   English composer and conductor (1905-1951)

   Gustav Mahler

   Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911)

   Eugene Ormandy

   United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1899-1985)

   Seiji Ozawa

   United States conductor (born in Japan in 1935)

   Leopold Antoni Stanislaw Stokowski

   United States conductor (born in Britain) (1882-1977)

   George Szell

   United States conductor (born in Hungary) (1897-1970)

   Arturo Toscanini

   Italian conductor of many orchestras worldwide (1867-1957)

   Bruno Walter

   German conductor (1876-1962)

   Baron Karl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber

   German conductor and composer of romantic operas (1786-1826)

   Sir Henry Joseph Wood

   English conductor (1869-1944)

   types:

   bandleader

   the leader of a dance band

   bandmaster

   the conductor of a band

   drum major

   the leader of a marching band or drum corps

   drum majorette, majorette

   a female drum major

   type of:

   musician

   artist who composes or conducts music as a profession