The African-American Conductor: James DePreist
BY CHRISTOPHER PURDY | WOSU RADIO
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[dropcap]James[/dropcap] DePreist. Born in Philadelphia in 1936, DePreist won the Dmitri Mitropoulos conducting competition while still a young man. He served as Leonard Bernstein’s assistant at the New York Philharmonic. Over a long career, DePreist was music director of the National Symphony, the Monte Carlo Orchestra, and most notably enjoyed a long tenure with the Oregon Symphony. In 2005 he was awarded the National Medal of the arts by President George W. Bush.
James DePreist died in 2012.
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