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Zubin Mehta was born into an aristocratic Parsi family. His father Mehli Mehta was a violinist and founding conductor of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra . 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. 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.

Mehta soon rose to the rank of chief conductor when he was made Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in 1960, a post he held until 1967. Other appointments followed: Musical Director the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (1962 - 1978); the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (1978 - 1991), becoming the longest holder of the latter post. He has conducted the Israel Philharmonic OrchestraThe Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) is the leading symphony orchestra in Israel, and one of the top orchestras in the world. Originally the "Palestine Orchestra", it was founded by violinist Bronislaw Huberman in 1936, at a time when many Jewish music since 1970 and was made its Music Director for Life in 1981. Additionally since 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting, he has been Music Director of the Bavarian State OperaBavarian State Opera (in German: Bayerische Staatsoper is an opera company in Munich. It is one of the leading opera companies in Germany. Its home base the National Theatre on Max-Joseph-Platz, but it also performs in the Prinzregententheater and the Cuv in MunichMunich ( German: Munchen ) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. Behind Berlin and Hamburg, Munich is Germany's third largest city with a population of about 1. 261 million ( as of 2003). It is located on the river Isar. History The se.

In June 1994, Maestro Mehta performed the Mozart RequiemWolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the Requiem mass in D minor ( K. 626), in 1791 Mozart's last composition. It is also, perhaps, one of his most powerful and recognised works. Composition and completion The work is scored for soprano, alto, tenor and bass sol, along with the members of the Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the ruins of Sarajevo's National Library, in a fund raising concert for the victims of armed conflict and remembrance of the thousands of people killed in the Yugoslav warsThe Yugoslav wars were a series of violent conflicts in the territory of the former Yugoslavia that went on in the 1990s. They comprised two series of successive wars affecting all of the six former Yugoslav republics. Conflicts in the west Slovenian War. On 29th August 1999, he conducted Mahler symphony no 2The Symphony No. 2 in C minor by Gustav Mahler, known as the Resurrection was written between 1888 and 1894. It is one of Mahler's most popular works. The symphony is written for an orchestra consisting of four flutes, four piccolos, four oboes, cor angla (resurrection), at the vicinity of BuchenwaldElie Wiesel is second row, seventh from left). Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg Hill near Weimar, Thuringia, Germany, in July 1937. The name "Buchenwald" means " beech forest" in German, such a forest surrounding the area concentration camp in the German city of Weimar, with both the Bavarian State Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, sitting alongside each other. He toured his native country India and home city Mumbai (Bombay) in 1984, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and again in November-December 1994, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, along with soloists Itzhak Perlman and Gil Shaham .

Zubin Mehta is especially famous for his interpretations of large scale neo-romantic symphonic music of composers like Anton Bruckner, Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. His conducting is also renowned as being flamboyant and forceful in performance. In the year 2000 his brother, Zarin Mehta, was appointed as the executive director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.