John Neschling

Conductor John Neschling has been active as both an orchestral and an opera conductor, both in his native Brazil and in Europe. During more than ten years with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra), he built the group into an orchestra of international stature. Neschling was born in Rio de Janeiro on May 13, 1947. His parents were Austrian Jews who had fled fascism in Europe; his grandmother Malvine Bodzansky was a cousin of Arnold Schoenberg. Neschling took up the piano as a child but then settled on conducting as a career and re...