Maestro moves: Osmo Vänskä takes job in Iceland
mainWe hear that the Minnesota music director has been named principal guest conductor in the far north, working with music director Ilan Volkov.
Might need more of those woolly sweaters.
In other moves, Jun Märkl has been named music director of Spain’s Basque national orchestra, La Orquesta de Euskadi (OSE).
A good day to have an ä in your name.
Iceland is much warmer in January than Minneapolis in Minnesota will ever be, surely it is home to some of the lowest low temps. in the lower 48 states, he is smart to go to Iceland in the winter.