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Antony Cooke, formerly associate professor of cello at Northwestern University, and 30-year veteran of the Hollywood film music industry (performing in approximately 1500 soundtracks), author of numerous books, including ""Charles Ives's Musical Universe"" [2015], ""Charles Ives and his Road to the Stars"" [2016]), and ""Astronomy and the Climate Crisis"" [2013], has had a multi-faceted career-also as solo performer and classical recording artist, composer, and author of books about astronomy. This book, with fellow collaborator and contributor in Belgium, David Baltuch, is the first of a three-volume resource on Gustav Mahler. Trained mostly in London, Cooke established an early career as a solo cellist. Primarily the protege of the pedagogue Helen Just (a disciple of Diran Alexanian); Cooke received artist diplomas from both the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Cooke was a gold medalist at the London Music Competition in 1966, received the prestigious 'Young Musicians '73 Award (London), and appeared as a concerto soloist and recitalist on the BBC. Cooke has concertized extensively throughout Europe and USA, and recorded numerous CD's and LP's under the Centaur, PROdigital, Resort Classic, and Golden Crest labels. Cooke studied theory and historical musicology under John Wilkinson, composition under John Lambert (Nadia Boulanger protege), and conducting under Sir Colin Davis. As England's youngest principal cellist (the London Mozart Players under Harry Blech), then England's premier chamber orchestra, he appeared regularly with the ensemble as concerto soloist. Appointed Assistant Professor of Cello at the University of South Florida in 1974, and subsequently, Associate Professor in the School of Music at Northwestern University in Chicago, he was a founder member of the Regenstein Trio. In 1984, having relocated to Los Angeles he established himself as one of the luminaries in the Hollywood recording industry, participating in countless movie soundtracks, television and record productions, as well as composing music for prime time television. As a composer, he has been published by Kendor, Studio PR, Kjos Music, and CPP Bellwin, Inc. Presently engaged in producing the three volumes on Mahler, Cooke still performs, writes music, and aims to create an annual Mahler festival in St Petersburg, Florida. David Baltuch (in his own words): I was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1959, have studied at the Brussels and Liege Conservatoires and earned diplomas in solfeggio, piano, chamber music, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, orchestration, and orchestral conducting. I have also attended orchestral conducting classes at the cole Normale Alfred Cortot in Paris and earned a diploma in this field. I was very fortunate to study the piano with Eduardo del Pueyo and musicianship with Marcel Quinet. Additionally, I have attended seminars held by the Association of British Choir Directors in London where I earned the Intermediate Certificate for Choral Conducting, and various conducting summer courses with Benjamin Zander (UK-USA), Dominique Rouits (France), and Bernard Tetu (France). My artistic activities include choral and orchestral conducting, piano, chamber music and composition. I participated to the recording of several CDs as a pianist and as a conductor. In 2015, I have completed a doctoral thesis at Birmingham City University devoted to the phenomenon of orchestral conducting. I am currently the director of the Music Academy in Farciennes (Belgium), a position that I have held since 1994.

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