Conductor, composer and pedagogue, Eleazar de Carvalho (1912-1996) is considered one of the most important Brazilian conductors. A Koussevitzky protégé (like Leonard Bernstein), Carvalho was a professor of conducting at the Berkshire Music Center – Tanglewood Festival from 1947 to 1962, as well a professor at The Juilliard School and Yale University. Seiji Ozawa, Claudio Abbado and Zubin Mehta, are among the many conductors who studied under Carvalho.