Maestro Sinclair - Biography


James Sinclair is known for his versatility in delivering superb performances in styles ranging from the Baroque to the pops literature. He has excelled in the mainstream literature of the classical orchestra as well as in accompanying ballet and opera. Sinclair has been the music director of Orchestra New England since its founding in 1974. James Sinclair is among the world's pre-eminent scholars and champions of the music of Charles Ives. Currently he is recording for the Naxos label the complete orchestral music of Charles Ives, to comprise an eight-CD set. He is also the Executive Editor for the Charles Ives Society, supervising the work of Ives scholars throughout the United States. In October 1999 Yale University Press published his 800-page A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives. The Association of American Publishers cited the catalogue as the best publication of 1999 in arts scholarship; ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) gave the book its Deems Taylor Award Special Citation for writing on the arts. A native of Washington, D.C., James Sinclair was educated at Indiana University and taught at the University of Hawaii before locating in New Haven in 1972. He frequently has served as a Visiting Lecturer in Music at Yale University and is an Associate Fellow of Berkeley College (Yale). In 1999 the University of New Haven awarded Maestro Sinclair an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
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James Sinclair is known for his versatility in delivering superb performances in styles ranging from the Baroque to the pops literature. He has excelled in the mainstream literature of the classical orchestra as well as in accompanying ballet and opera. Sinclair has been the music director of Orchestra New England since its founding in 1974.

James Sinclair is among the world's pre-eminent scholars and champions of the music of Charles Ives. Currently he is recording for the Naxos label the complete orchestral music of Charles Ives, to comprise an eight-CD set. He is also the Executive Editor for the Charles Ives Society, supervising the work of Ives scholars throughout the United States. In October 1999 Yale University Press published his 800-page A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives. The Association of American Publishers cited the catalogue as the best publication of 1999 in arts scholarship; ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) gave the book its Deems Taylor Award Special Citation for writing on the arts.

A native of Washington, D.C., James Sinclair was educated at Indiana University and taught at the University of Hawaii before locating in New Haven in 1972. He frequently has served as a Visiting Lecturer in Music at Yale University and is an Associate Fellow of Berkeley College (Yale). In 1999 the University of New Haven awarded Maestro Sinclair an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.