James Sinclair is an American classical conductor who studied at Indiana
University. He taught at the University of Hawaii before moving to New Haven,
Connecticut, in 1972. Sinclair became the music director of Orchestra New
England in 1974, a position he has held for over 50 years. He also served as the
music director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra between 1994 and 1995. Throughout
his career, Sinclair has been a specialist in the music of Charles Ives. He
published the book A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives (1999)
with Yale University Press and served as the ...