Vancouver names Dutch music director
mainBramwell Tovey is moving up to emeritus in 2018 after a transformatory 18 years.
His successor will be Otto Tausk, a Dutchman presently engaged at St Gallen in Switzerland.
They seem happy.
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I believe that Tausk has also been assistent to Jaap van Zweden.
I don’t think so
He could be seen as such in the multi-series Dutch documentary about JvZw when preparing a concert in Amsterdam.
No….I believe that was Peter Biloen, not Otto…
Fantastic choice for them. A shame the Bavarian Opera didn’t sign him. His work in St. Gallen, in the concert hall and theatre, was some of the best I was able to witness in the past decade in Europe.
Very good choice. And credit to the administration that they didn’t simply “go for youth” as another Canadian orchestra recently did with Prior…
I betcha $1000 you can credit the musicians, not administrations of Canadian orchestras, for the choice of music directors.
I’ll betcha another $1000 that the age of the candidate doesn’t appear on musicians surveys when they make their choice.
You’re a real genius, Adam M.,