The German conductor Anja Bihlmaier, newly appointed chief conductor in The Hague, has taken a second job in Finland.
She will be principal guest at the Lahti orchestra, where the chief is Dima Slobodeniouk. She starts next year.
The German conductor Anja Bihlmaier, newly appointed chief conductor in The Hague, has taken a second job in Finland.
She will be principal guest at the Lahti orchestra, where the chief is Dima Slobodeniouk. She starts next year.
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Congrats!
She’ll have to swot-up her Sibelius.
No objections against a new Wood Nymph.
Good for Anja, but a German trained conductor going to Finland is a bit like carrying coals to Newcastle.
But it’s not worse than having Rattle and Gardner in London or Thielemann in Dresden.
I think we should drop nationality and gender and focus on what is achieved in the concert hall.
Lahti has a nice one.
Whatever gave you there idea that this comment was a slam? It’s a simple fact that Finland has produced dozens of talented conductors. It is interesting they chose a German for the Lahti. Their main conductor is Finnish. There is no “worse” to it.
Kindly drop the assumptions. Thanks.
A nice what? 🙂
A concert hall.
Finland has had 200 years of German conductors. Difficult to see the point…
But nothing unusual.
http://www.karajan.co.uk/sibelius.html
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/karajans-sibelius
Or the humor, apparently.
So she’ll be a Slobo sub then? I can’t pronounce or even spell Slobodeniouk.
Very nice! Can’t wait to hear her with either (or any other) orchestra – colleagues in the know tell me she is musical, intelligent with interesting ideas and a solid technique.
Congrats to Lahti, she’s a great conductor!