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Herbert Blomstedt, a prominent orchestral conductor, was born 1927 in Springfield, Massachusetts to Swedish parents and moved to Sweden at age two. He studied at the Stockholm Royal College of Music and the University of Uppsala, followed by studies of contemporary music at Darmstadt in 1949, Baroque music with Paul Sacher at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and further conducting studies with Igor Markevitch, Jean Morel at the Juilliard School, and Leonard Bernstein at Tanglewood's Berkshire Music Center.

He won the Koussevitzky Conducting Prize in 1953 and the Salzburg Conducting Competition in 1955.

He has been Music Director or Principal Conductor of the Norrköping Symphony (beginning 1954), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (1962-1968), Danish Radio Symphony, Swedish Radio Symphony, Dresden Staatskapelle (1975-1985), San Francisco Symphony (1985-1995, now Conductor Laureate), North German Radio Symphony (1996-1998) and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (1998-2005). In March 2006, he was appointed Honorary Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. He is also an Honorary Conductor of the NHK Symphony Orchestra.

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