Teddy Abrams is one of the most popular and richest Conductor who was born on May 6, 1987 in Berkeley, California, United States.
Abrams was born in Berkeley, California and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Abrams is a fourth-generation American; his ancestors immigrated to the U.S. from Russia, Poland and Hungary. Abrams started improvising on piano at age 3, and began formal lessons at age 5. At age 8, Abrams began clarinet in elementary school band and developed an interest in conducting after seeing a San Francisco Symphony performance at age 9. He began studying conducting and musicianship with Michael Tilson Thomas, the Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, at age 12. Abrams never attended middle or high school; he took general education courses at community colleges in the Bay Area, including Laney College and Foothill College from age 11 to 16. He then transferred to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, graduating with a Bachelor of Music at age 18 and studying piano with Paul Hersh and clarinet with David Breeden. In 2005 Abrams entered the Curtis Institute of Music as a conducting major, studying with Otto-Werner Mueller, and Ford Lallerstedt. Abrams also studied with David Zinman at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Abrams was the youngest conducting student ever accepted at both Curtis and Aspen.
Abrams performed as a keyboardist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, won the 2007 Aspen Composition Contest, and was the Assistant Conductor of the YouTube Symphony at Carnegie Hall in 2009. He has held residencies at the La Mortella music festival in Ischia, Italy and at the American Academy in Berlin.
