Elim Chan gets Concertgebouw call
mainThe young Hong Kong conductor has been summoned to open the Concertgebouw season after Franz Welser-Möst withdrew.
Elim, 33, is chief conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra just across the border, and principal guest at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. She has conducted the Concertgebouw once before, but never on a limelight night. This throws her hat belatedly into the ring for the vacant music directorship.
Franz Welser-Möst is having a minor operation for a shoulder injury at the beginning of September. He expected to return to the Concertgebouw at Christmas.
Well deserved, shes an incredible conductor!
She’s very talented.
I saw her conduct the RSNO, replacing Neeme Järvi.
Her conducting is not as exaggerated as Mirga’s.
“Her conducting is not as exaggerated as Mirga’s”
T.G. for that!
Neither will her coverage here, hopefully.
Faint praise. If her conducting was more exaggerated than Mirga’s her arms would fly off.
Just out of interest, why did you choose Mirga as the benchmark to measure her against?
This sex-biased list:
https://slippedisc.com/2019/07/women-conductors-2019-whos-up-whos-down/
Because someone seems to think Mirga is the benchmark against which all should be compared…
“This throws her hat belatedly into the ring for the vacant music directorship.”
I don’t believe I’ve just read that.
Indeed, regardless of how good she is, this takes “jumping the gun” to a whole new level.
Elim is one of the most exciting talents emerging at present and a absolute pleasure to work with. Beyond thrilled that she has been given the call up.
She is a nice person and a talented musician, but the only reason I am not surprised about mentioning potential music directorship of Concertgebouw next to her name is that it seems like every young woman with a baton in her hands who is not a complete failure on the podium is being hailed as a genius these days.
Elim has great baton technique and great sense of phrasing and balance of sound from the orchestra. She has her own way to elicit from the orchestra what she wants. She reminds me of the young Zubin Mehta when he was with the Montreal symphony and the LA Orchestra.