Maestro stays: Finn keeps Cologne

Maestro stays: Finn keeps Cologne

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norman lebrecht

April 29, 2015

Jukka-Pekka Saraste, 58, will stay chief conductor of the WDR radio orchestra until 2019.

He has been in the job since 2010. Before that he conducted with Finnish radio for 15 years. One of the last radio careers.

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Comments

  • serge says:

    You forgot that he also had a great 7-year tenure at the helm of the Oslo Philharmonic, before they went to their current stagnation under Vasily Petrenko.

  • Peter Phillips says:

    Isn’t “WDR radio” a tautology?

  • Novagerio says:

    You also forgot his 7 years in Toronto.

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