Leon Botstein is a Swiss-born American conductor, educator, and scholar serving as the President of Bard College.
Leon Botstein
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra after a performance of Intolleranza by Luigi Nono at Carnegie Hall in 2018.
Roman Totenberg was a Polish-American violinist and educator. A child prodigy, he lived in Poland, Moscow, Berlin, and Paris, before formally immigrating to the U.S. in 1938, at age 27. He performed and taught nationally and internationally throughout his life.
Roman Totenberg
In 2000, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
From left, Jill, Nina, and Amy Totenberg celebrate the return of their father’s Stradivarius violin in 2015.