Howard Shanet (9 November 1918 – 19 June 2006) was a U.S. conductor and composer.
Howard Shanet was born on 9 November 1918 in Brooklyn,[1] New York, and started his musical career as a cellist, gaining a Bachelor's degree from Columbia in 1939 and a Master's in Musicology in 1941.
[2][3] After military service in World War II, he studied musical composition with Bohuslav Martinů and Aaron Copland and conducting with Serge Koussevitzky and Fritz Stiedry.
During the early 1950s, he was conducting assistant to Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic.
He also conducted performances of operas at Columbia, including the world premiere of Carlos Chávez's The Visitors.