Delos International is an American record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

. Based in Hollywood, California, it specializes in publishing classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

. The Delos recording label was founded in 1973 by Amelia S. Haygood (1919–2007), one of the most prominent figures in the classical recording industry. She named the company after the island of Delos

Delos

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, the birthplace of the Sun god Apollo

Apollo

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, who brought music and healing to the world.

Delos has made recordings of such ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra

Philadelphia Orchestra

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, the St. Petersburg String Quartet

St. Petersburg String Quartet

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, and The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

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; and of artists such as Arleen Auger

Arleen Auger

Joyce Arleen Auger was an American soprano singer, admired for her coloratura voice and interpretations of works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Monteverdi, Gluck, and Mozart.-Biography:...

, Joseph Bertolozzi

Joseph Bertolozzi

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, James DePreist

James DePreist

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, Marina Domashenko

Marina Domashenko

Marina Domashenko is a Russian operatic mezzo-soprano.Domashenko was born into a musical family in the Siberian town Kemerovo. She graduated with honours from the Kemerovo School of Music where she studied piano and conducting, and from the Yekaterinburg Conservatory where she studied opera...

, Olga Guryakova, Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky , is a leading baritone opera singer from Russia.Hvorostovsky was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. He studied at the Krasnoyarsk School of Arts under Yekatherina Yofel and made his debut at Krasnoyarsk Opera House, in the role of Marullo in Rigoletto...

, Dennis Keene

Dennis Keene

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, Constantine Orbelian, Ewa Podles

Ewa Podles

Ewa Podleś is an internationally celebrated Polish coloratura contralto with a very wide vocal range and great vocal agility....

, Jean-Pierre Rampal

Jean-Pierre Rampal

Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal was a French flautist. He has been personally "credited with returning to the flute the popularity as a solo classical instrument it had not held since the 18th century."-Early years:...

, Carol Rosenberger

Carol Rosenberger

Carol Rosenberger - is a classical pianist. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Carol studied in the U.S. with Webster Aitken and Katja Andy; in Paris with Nadia Boulanger; and in Vienna with harpsichordist/ Baroque scholar Eta Harich-Schneider and Schenker theorist Franz Eibner...

, Gerard Schwarz

Gerard Schwarz

Gerard Schwarz is an American conductor. He was music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2011.In 2007 Schwarz was named music director of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina, having served as principal conductor since 2005...

, János Starker

János Starker

János Starker |Kingdom of Hungary]]) is a Hungarian-American cellist. Since 1958 he has taught at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he holds the title of Distinguished Professor.- Child prodigy :...

, Andrew von Oeyen

Andrew von Oeyen

-Education:He began piano lessons at age five in Los Angeles with Sara Banta and made his solo orchestral debut at age ten. At age 16, he made his debut with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic...

, Eugenia Zukerman

Eugenia Zukerman

Eugenia Rich Zukerman is an American flutist, writer, and journalist. An internationally renowned flute virtuoso, Mrs Zukerman has been performing with major orchestras and at major music festivals internationally for more than three decades...

, and many more.

John M. Eargle

John M. Eargle

John Morgan Eargle was an Oscar and Grammy-winning audio engineer and a musician...

(1931–2007) was the Chief Engineer.

External links

• "Amelia Haygood, 1919–2007" by Jason Serinus (25 March 2007)