"Chicago was really the place that really pushed me not only as a conductor but as a musician overall and showed me what the ...

No conductor in modern history, not even the lavishly hyped Gustavo Dudamel, has ever risen so quickly to the peak of the profession. And now there are four. The Chicago Symphony, arguably the ...

This time he casually blasted his baton-wielding colleagues. The trouble with modern conductors, said Markevitch, is that many of them have only a hazy idea of the instruments of the orchestra and ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin is a conductor operating at triple tempo ... is reimagining the role of the modern orchestra; and its place in the soundtrack of the modern city. You'd be forgiven for ...

“I wanted to present classical music as something that has modern appeal, where a conductor can be a woman my age [mid-30s]. Mostly the film is about relationships — the music is a character ...