both Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova. In 1990 Patricia Wilde invited Akiro to Become the Music Director at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre where he onducted for ten years. In 2000 he moved to Boulder Colorado to teach and conduct. In Europe, most notably, he conducted the Tivoli Symphony Orchestra in the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as orchestras at the Santander Festival in Spain, Athens Festival in Greece, the Arena de Verona in Italy, the Nervis Festival in Genoa, and at the Edinburgh Festival with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Endo conducted one of the first Live from Lincoln Center programs in 1976 — a live, televised, complete production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, starring Mme. Makarova and Ivan Nagy with American Ballet Theatre. It was simulcast in FM stereo on NPR, and because it was televised live, complete with three twenty-minute intermissions, was quite possibly the longest ballet telecast ever shown in the United States up to that time (three and a half hours counting the intermissions). Although it was initially released commercially in both the VHS and laser disc formats, it is currently unavailable. Endo earned a Grammy nomination for his recording of the 20th Double-Reed Music for Crystal Records with members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. References External links American conductors (music) American male conductors (music) 1938 births 2014 deaths Rice University staff Stanford University staff USC Thornton School of Music alumni American classical musicians of Japanese descent Japanese emigrants to the United States