Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music.

Zubin Mehta was born into an aristocratic Indian Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, the son of Mehli and Tehmina Mehta. His fath

Zubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music.

Zubin Mehta was born into an aristocratic Indian Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, the son of Mehli and Tehmina Mehta. His father Mehli Mehta was a violinist and founding conductor of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. Zubin is an alumnus of St Mary's School (I.C.S.E.), Mazagoan, Mumbai. Zubin initially intended to study medicine, but eventually became a music student in Vienna at the age of 18, under the eminent instructor Hans Swarowsky. (Also at the same academy along with Zubin were conductor Claudio Abbado and conductor/pianist Daniel Barenboim.) In 1958, he made his conducting debut in Vienna. The same year he won the International Conducting Competition in Liverpool and was appointed assistant conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.