With the titles Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, and Artistic Director of the Pacific Music Festival, Michael Tilson Thomas has built quite a reputation for himself in the music industry. He is internationally known as a composer and a conductor, combining his own eclectic style with various American music styles. During his career he has worked with such music greats as Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez, and Aaron Copland. Michael Tilson Thomas was born in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He was musically influenced by his family, who had been artistically inclined for three genera... ... More