Neville Mariner - Music International - 09/24/81

Neville Marriner has been Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra since 1979. He is the world's most recorded conductor and founder of the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London. A native of Lincolnshire, England, he studied violin at the Royal College of Music in London and at the Paris conservatory. He spent thirteen years as the principal second violin with the London Symphony Orchestra and has conducted most of the world's major symphony orchestras.