Mark Fitz-Gerald

Conductor Mark Fitz-Gerald is recognized for dual specialties: he is a noted interpreter of the music of Shostakovich, and he is an expert in the restoration and performance of scores for silent films. Those specialties have overlapped at times, as he has prepared and performed two major Shostakovich film scores of the 1920s. Fitz-Gerald was born in Bromley, in south-east England's Kent County, on September 5, 1954. Among his ancestors were an Irish nobleman and a famed music hall banjo player. His early musical experiences were quite varied, including studies of the bass dru...