Leon Botstein
| Leon Botstein | |
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| President of Bard College | |
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Assumed office 1975 |
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| Preceded by | Reamer Kline |
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December 14, 1946 (age 70) Switzerland |
| Residence | Annandale-on-Hudson, New York |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago, Harvard University |
Leon Botstein (born December 14, 1946 in Zürich, Switzerland) is a Jewish-Americanconductor, scholar, and the President of Bard College.
Botstein is the music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) and conductor laureate of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra (JSO), where he served as music director and principal conductor from 2003-2010. He is also the founder and co-Artistic Director of the Bard Music Festival. He is a member of the Board of Directors of The After-School Corporation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding educational opportunities for all students. He also serves as the Board Chairman of the Central European University. In July 2016, Austria’s Grafenegg Festival appointed Botstein artistic director of the Grafenegg Campus and Academy, effective in 2018.
Botstein is the author of Jefferson’s Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture and Judentum und Modernitaet. He graduated at age 16 from the High School of Music and Art in New York City, and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in music history. He credits David Landes and Harold Farberman as his mentors.
Botstein became the youngest (or possibly second youngest) college president in U.S. history at age 23, serving from 1970 to 1975 at the now-defunct Franconia College, after which he was named president of Bard College.
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