Daniel Nazareth

Daniel Nazareth (born 8 June 1948 in Bombay, India; died 19 June 2014) was an Indian composer and conductor.

He began violin lessons at age of 7. He earned degrees in Commerce and Economics from Bombay University in 1968. He earned a degree in piano the Royal College of Music, London, in 1969. Nazareth later attended the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst and earned an Honours Diploma in Orchestral Conducting in 1975.

Nazareth was a prize winner at the 1974 International Nikolai Malko Conductors Competition in Copenhagen, Denmark. This led to a series of conducting engagements in Scandinavia and an opportunity to study privately with Igor Markevitch. In the summer of 1976, Nazareth was a recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Conducting Fellowship and of the Koussevitsky Music Foundation Conductor's Award at Tanglewood, USA. There, his mentors included Bernstein, Colin Davis and Seiji Ozawa.

On the invitation of Gian Carlo Menotti, Nazareth conducted his first opera, Cosi fan tutte, in the summer of 1977 at the Spoleto Festival, Italy. Nazareth also won the first Ernest Ansermet Conducting Competition in 1978 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Nazareth was music director of the Teatro San Carlo from 1988 to 1990. In 1989, he served as Music Director of the Ente Lirico Festival at the Arena di Verona, Italy.

After the re-unification of Germany, Nazareth served as Chief Conductor of the Orchestra of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from 1992 to 1996. He and the orchestra celebrated the 15th anniversary of the papacy of Pope John Paul II with a live TV concert at the Vatican in 1993. Video productions with the MDR Television Leipzig included Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Mass in C, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Mahler’s Symphony No. 10, Mozart’s Requiem and Orff’s Carmina Burana.

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