Sir Charles Mackerras has been played on NTS shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, with Sinfonietta first played on 25 April 2017.

Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE (born 17 November 1925, died 14 July 2010) was an Australian conductor. He was a noted authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Family: Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras was born of Australian parents, Alan and Catherine Mackerras, in Schenectady, New York. His father, an electrical engineer, was doing postgraduate work in Schenectady with General Electric. The family moved to Sydney when Charles was aged two. He was the…