Samuel Wong
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A 1984 graduate of Harvard College, Wong trained at Harvard Medical School and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.[1] Dr. Wong is an eye surgeon practicing in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
In another career, he has conducted many international orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Seattle and Houston Symphonies, Toronto and Montreal Symphonies, orchestras in Italy, Spain, Belgium, and Israel. Wong led the New York Philharmonic in December 1990 after the untimely death of Leonard Bernstein, and replaced Zubin Mehta in Washington D.C. in January 1991 when Maestro Mehta traveled to Israel in an act of solidarity with the Israel Philharmonic during the Persian Gulf War.
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- 1963 births
- Canadian classical musicians
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- Male conductors (music)
- Harvard Medical School alumni
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- Alumni of St. Paul's Co-educational College
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni
- 21st-century Canadian conductors (music)
- 21st-century Canadian male musicians