Etiket: conductor
Orchestra Phion has a new chief conductor: Alexei Ogrintchouk. ‘As a conductor you have to be able to breathe properly’
Not everyone will have seen this coming: Alexei Ogrintchouk, principal oboist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra and one of the world’s star oboists, will be Phion’s new chief conductor. The orchestra…
‘As a conductor you are the composer’s advocate’
It started about thirty years ago, on the day that conductor Jules van Hessen turned to the audience and said good evening. He conducted Mahler’s monumental Second Symphony in an…
Frida Kahlo show mostly revolves around a boring conductor
Musical theatre Frida Kahlo’s sister by SeaSession / Servaes Nelissen. Seen: 14/4 Theater Ins Blau, Leiden. On view until 4/6. Inl: seasession.nl ●●●●● You would think that Frida Kahlo’s sister…
Koninklijke Harmonie Kunst en Eendracht from Lendelede says goodbye to conductor after 25 years
Koninklijke Harmonie Kunst en Eendracht from Lendelede says goodbye to conductor after 25 years Joost Deryckere, enters the stage one more time here in Heule for the Koninklijke Harmonie Kunst…
Eun Sun Kim: who is the conductor of La Scala with La Bohème
Qhis edition of La Boheme it is a celebration (it was set up for La Scala exactly 60 years ago by Franco Zeffirelliwhose centenary of birth occurs in 2023) and…
Vanessa Benelli Mosell, from pianist to conductor
«DAs a child, I put CDs on my home stereo and spent my evenings with an imaginary wand in my hand. An unexpressed desire, by dint of repressing it, comes…
Lahav Shani stops as chief conductor in Rotterdam and moves to Munich
Israeli conductor Lahav Shani (34), who has been chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra since 2018, will become chief conductor of the Münchner Philharmoniker in September 2026. He follows…
Conductor Jan looking for an unknown woman from Hilversum: “I felt very attracted to her”
Cupido hit the sprinter on the route between Hoorn and Hoofddorp last October. At least: as far as conductor Jan is concerned. During his work, he met a Hilversum lady…
Barbara Hannigan makes a dream debut as a conductor with the Concertgebouw Orchestra ★★★★★
Barbara Hannigan (left) and soprano Aphrodite Patoulidou.Sculpture Milagro Elstak You don’t realize it at first, but the woman sitting on the otherwise empty stage is the Canadian soprano and conductor…
Conductor Duncan Ward combines precision with maximum expressiveness ★★★★☆
It first album of Philharmonie Zuidnederland with its new chief conductor, the British Duncan Ward (33), seems a mixed bag. That the four compositions tell ‘musical stories’, as the explanatory…