George Cleve

• Conductor

About

George Cleve: Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "one of our canniest and most passionate Mozartians," Austrian-born conductor George Cleve is Music Director of San Francisco's critically acclaimed Midsummer Mozart Festival, which he founded in 1974. He was appointed Music Director Laureate of the San Jose Symphony in June 1992 upon the conclusion of his twenty-year tenure as Music Director of that orchestra, which under his leadership had become one of the finest in America.