Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor, born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1936. He was music director of the Montreal Symphony from 1961 to 1967 and of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1962 to 1978, then led the New York Philharmonic from 1978 to 1991. His bond with the Israel Philharmonic lasted about fifty years, and he stepped down as its music director in October 2019, when the orchestra named him music director emeritus.