Leon Botstein

Leon Botstein (born December 14, 1946) is a Swiss-born American conductor, educator, historical musicologist, and scholar who has been the president of Bard College since 1975. On May 1, 2026, Botstein announced that he would retire as president at the end of the 2025-26 academic year, months after the Epstein files revealed that he had carried on a friendly relationship with financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein between 2011 and 2018.

Transcription as Translation - Beethoven & Smetana - 2025-11-14T00:00:00.000000Z

Premieres - 2025-10-31T00:00:00.000000Z

Exodus: Kaufmann • Rubin • Tal - 2024-09-20T00:00:00.000000Z

The Lost Generation: Apostel • Kauder • Busch - 2024-05-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Bristow & Fry: Classics of American Romanticism - 2022-09-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Bristow & Fry: Classics of American Romanticism - 2022-09-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Piano Protagonists - 2021-03-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Buried Alive - 2020-08-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Rubbra & Bliss: Piano Concertos (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 81) - 2020-06-26T00:00:00.000000Z

Ries: Piano Concertos Nos. 8 & 9 (Hyperion Romantic Piano Concerto 75) - 2018-04-27T00:00:00.000000Z

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Piano Concerto, Variations on "I Got Rhythm" & Preludes - 2016-07-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Schubert: Die Verschworenen, D. 787 - 2014-11-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Schubert: Mass in E-Flat Major, D. 950 - 2014-11-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Suppé: Franz Schubert - 2014-11-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Weber: Euryanthe - 2014-09-24T00:00:00.000000Z

Stravinsky: Petrushka (1947 Revision) - 2013-12-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Taneyev: Oresteia - 2013-09-20T00:00:00.000000Z

Crumb: Variazioni - 2013-08-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Chabrier: Le Roi Malgré Lui - 2012-09-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra - 2012-06-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Spohr: The Last Judgment - 2012-03-16T00:00:00.000000Z

Strauss: Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83 - 2012-01-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Dallapiccola: Volo di notte - 2012-01-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50 - 2011-12-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F Minor - "Great" - 2011-12-16T00:00:00.000000Z

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