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American conductor (born 1955)

Markand Thakar (born 1955, New York City) is an American conductor and music director emeritus of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra (BCO).

His conducting teachers have included Gustav Meier, Markand Thakar, Michael Charry, Samuel Jones, Larry Rachleff, and Georg Tintner.

His conducting teachers have included Gustav Meier, Markand Thakar, Michael Charry, Samuel Jones, Larry Rachleff, and Georg Tintner.

Their music director Markand Thakar guides them thoughtfully through the scores.

Markand Thakar.

Markand Thakar is renowned world-wide as one of the major conducting pedagogues of the 21st century.

McKay holds a doctorate in conducting from the Peabody Institute, where he studied with Gustav Meier and Markand Thakar while serving as assistant conductor.

Biography

From the age of six, Markand Thakar attended the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division, where he was a piano student of Leonora B. Pardee and a violin student of Christine Dethier. He also studied composition privately with Suzanne Bloch and Noah Creshevsky.

Additional instrumental studies during summers at The Quartet Program included violin with Charles Castleman, viola with Heidi Castleman and Paul Doktor, and chamber music with Josef Gingold, Norman Carol, Renato Bonancini, Samuel Mayes, and the Tokyo Quartet.

Thakar earned the Bachelor of Music degree in 1975 from Juilliard, with a major in composition as a student of Vincent Persichetti and Milton Babbitt, and a minor in violin performance as a student of Christine Dethier.

After two years of private study of counterpoint