- Artistic director and conductor of the Orchestre classique de Montreal. He conducted the New York Philharmonic, the Royal Ballet Covent Garden, the Northern Sinfonia, and the BBC Welsh Symphony, among others.
- In May, 2006 he was voted one of the top five Greatest Hamiltonians of all time by Hamilton Spectator readers.
- He studied with Igor Markevitch and won first prize at the 1958 Pan-American conducting competition.
- Brott was named one of Canada's Outstanding Young Men in 1969 and 1973 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
- Boris Jeremiah Brott was born in Montreal in 1944 to violinist and composer Alexander Brott and cellist Lotte Brott.
- In 2007, he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by Tourism Hamilton and was also awarded Canada's National Child Day award in Ottawa for introducing classical music to over a million schoolchildren over his career to date. Also in 2007, he received the City of Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Arts Award.
- From 1964 to 1967, Brott was principal conductor for the touring company of the Royal Ballet Covent Garden. During the 1965-6 season at Covent Garden he conducted the Royal Ballet's first production at that theatre of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale (1966) and toured the production in Britain.
- Brott studied law at the University of Western Ontario 1992-5, and in 1995 began giving motivational seminars to Fortune 500 companies using symphonic music as a metaphor.
- He was a former Principal Youth and Family conductor with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, where he conducted family and education concerts.
- In 1959, at the age of 15, he founded the Philharmonic Youth Orchestra of Montreal and led it in his conducting debut in that city.
- He took courses at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal and the McGill Conservatory, and in 1956 studied conducting at the summer school of Pierre Monteux, who engaged him as assistant for concerts in Europe.
- He won first prize and a gold medal at the sixth Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition in 1968 and served 1968-9 as assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
- He served 1963-5 as Walter Susskind's assistant conductor with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and then embarked on a career in England as conductor of the Northern Sinfonia at Newcastle upon Tyne (1964-8). He made several tours with this chamber orchestra, among which was one in Canada, which included concerts at Expo 67.
- Brott was married to author and attorney Ardyth Webster and had three children.
- Brott was a Canadian conductor and motivational speaker.
- In June 1962, Brott won third prize at the Liverpool Competition.
- He was the brother of cellist Denis Brott.
- In 1986, Brott was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2006, he was made a member of the Order of Ontario.
- Brott died on April 5, 2022, in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, as a result of a hit-and-run driver.
- He studied violin with his father, and performed at the age of five with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at a young people's matinee.
- He was one of the most internationally recognized Canadian conductors. He was known for his innovative methods of introducing classical music to new audiences. Over his career, he commissioned, performed and recorded a wide variety of Canadian works.
- In 1988, he founded the Brott Music Festival, which has since become Canada's largest orchestral music festival.
- Brott produced, conducted, or hosted a large number of television and radio programs for the CBC, and the BBC and ITV in the UK, and recorded with various orchestras for CBC, Mercury, Pro-Arte and Sony Classical.
- Brott became the first music director of the New West Symphony, California, in 1995, and was later named Conductor Laureate.
- Brott embarked on a guest conducting schedule at Italy's opera halls, including the Teatro Petruzzelli, the Arena di Verona and the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. In 2000, he conducted the first performance of Bernstein's Mass in Vatican City for an audience which included the late Pope John Paul II.
- 35-year-old Arsenije Lojovic, who was found guilty in the April 2022 hit-and-run death of conductor Boris Brott, will serve nearly eight years in prison after getting credit for time served, a judge told a sentencing hearing on August 31, 2023 in Hamilton, Ontario. The sentence includes six years for dangerous driving causing death, three years for failing to remain at the scene, and one year for breach of probation. He is prohibited from driving in Canada for life.
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