Gianandrea Noseda serves as music director of the Opera House in Torino, Italy. Prior to that, for nine years he served as principal conductor of England’s BBC Philharmonic and along the way conducted many of the world’s great orchestras and in the leading opera houses. Earlier this spring, Noseda conducted acclaimed performances of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera.

Joel Schumacher is an award-winning Hollywood director of more than 20 films including film adaptations of two of John Grisham’s best-selling books, The Client and A Time to Kill, plus several Batman movies.

For eight years, Bill Keller served as the top editor of The New York Times, likening his job to that of an orchestra conductor.

During Lionel Barber’s tenure as editor of the Financial Times, the paper has won numerous awards including the coveted Newspaper of the Year citation. Today he talks about his passion for music.

Mariss Jansons, one of the world’s foremost conductors, leads the legendary New Year’s Day Concert from Vienna, seen by about 40 million people around the world.

One of the foremost astronomers, Martin Rees is known for his pioneering work on the beginnings of the universe and for trying to decipher whether there really is life in outer space.