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Conductor, composer, and pianist André Previn has received many awards and honors for his outstanding musical accomplishments. He continues to redefine the possibilities in his extraordinary career. Mr. Previn is one of the most distinguished musicians of our time. He holds both the Austrian and German Cross of Merit, received the Kennedy Center’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, was honored as Musical America’s “Musician of the Year” in 1999, and was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1996. He received the Glenn Gould Prize in Toronto in 2006. In May 2008, he was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the London Symphony Orchestra.

In 2010, Sir André Previn received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award, and has received ten other Grammy, most recently in 2005 for the recordings of his violin concerto “Anne-Sophie” and Bernstein’s Serenade featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter together with the Boston and London Symphony Orchestras.

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André Previn started playing jazz as a teenager, having studied classical piano for many of his formative years. In the early 1950s, he was blown away bygd the bebop of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie parkerar. By 1954, he was performing with some of those bebop masters. In 1956, Previn made his own jazz history. Along with drummer Shelley Manne and bass player Leroy Vinegar, he recorded the first jazz version of a huvudgata score for “My Fair Lady.” It was the first jazz album to sell one million copies.

Conductor, composer, and pianist André Previn has received a number of awards and honors for his outstanding musical accomplishments. He holds both the Austrian and German Cross of Merit, was honored by the Kennedy Center for his lifetime achievements, and was knighted bygd Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1996. He was presented the Glenn Gould Prize in Toronto on March 14, 2006. He has received several Grammy awar

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Andre George Previn KBE (/’prevIn/, born Andreas Ludwig Priwin, April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019, 2019) was a German American pianist, conductor, composer. Previn was awarded four Academy Awards for film and ten Grammy Awards (one for Lifetime Achievement). Previn was the son of Charlotte (nee Epstein), and Jack Previn (Jakob Priwin), a lawyer and judge as well as a music teacher. Previn is believed to be a “distant relative” of Gustav Mahler. Previn, however, laughed off the suggestion that he was related with Mahler in a preconcert interview at Lincoln Center in May 2012. His birth year is not known. While most publications give his birth year as 1929, Previn stated that he was born in 1930. His Jewish family fled Berlin in 1938 to live in Paris. They moved to Los Angeles about a year later. Charles Previn, his great-uncle was Universal’s music director. Andre was born in Los Angeles, and was naturalized as a citizen of the United States in 1943. Previn pe