Just in: Mirga goes to Sweden
mainThe outgoing music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra will make a surprise debut next week with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Press release:
We are proud to announce that Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla, or simply ”Mirga” to enthusiastic audiences all around, will conduct the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra for the first time. The concert is livestreamed for free from Konserthuset Stockholm on Thursday February 25 (no login required).
Swedish orchestras have been interim launchpads for several international careers, notably Gustavo Dudamel and Alan Gilbert.
Here are some more Swedish blooms:
Esa-Pekka Salonen (principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1995)
Franz Welser-Möst (principal conductor of the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra from 1986 to 1991)
Paavo Järvi (principal conductor of the Malmö Symphony Orchestra from 1995 to 1998 and later also associated with Royal Stockholm SO)
Daniel Harding (Principal conductor of Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra from 2007)
“Alan Gilbert” lol.
Oh well…
At last!
🙂
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (RSPO 1974–1977 & 1991–1995)
Oh please Gustavo, Rozhdestvensky didn’t have Sweden as a launchpad.
Neither did Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Antal Dorati or Celibidache by the way.
It was a lunchpack for them.
Isn’t Birmingham a worthy launchpad of itself?
Doesn’t Birmingham consider itself a destination orchestra by now?
Post brexit, the UK is merely a destination of the damned.
I was going to say that. And Mirga already has an international career.
As for Birmingham being a “destination” orchestra, I don’t think it is, and I suspect it doesn’t see itself as, an orchestra that would be a capstone of a conductor’s career the way that the American “Big Seven” and, say, the LSO, Berlin Phil, Concertgebouw, and Bavarian Radio SO would be. (And yes, there are other orchestras that could be on that list as well.)
I think the CBSO is more like the Pittsburgh Symphony — an orchestra whose music director’s next job tends to be one of the top jobs in the world.
I don’t think the audience in Birmingham really cares about that title because they are privy to some wonderful conductors,great musicians and fantastic concerts. There’s also another point which is the CBSO like the RSNO and the Halle are rooted in their community. I leave the so called Big Seven and other names for musical tourists.
Andrew Manze, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra 2006-2014.
And Deborah still hasn’t called?
how can she leave her young children. unless she takes
them along for the ride.
many of these modern career women hire nannies that live in or travel with them, some even have test tube designer babies without fathers.
Absolutely true. I’m not opposed to the nanny or au pair because these are often part of the family. But factory babies is another thing altogether. The good thing is that men will soon become redundant; we don’t need no fathers (sung to the music of “Another Brick in the Wall”).
(checks notes..) sonata form became “redundant” some considerable while ago.
[we don’t need no fathers (sung to the music of “Another Brick in the Wall”).]
Or metre.
you are right the queen never bothered much
she left her children when they were young
NICE ONE.
Since when was it considered appropriate to pose questions about a given musician’s childcare arrangements? Surely, they are none of our business, irrespective of the musician’s sex.
Hmmm, yes. She is probably a terrible mother and a terrible human being.
/eyeroll
She is a devoted mother and travels with her partner and family AND children so check your facts first
Jan,
Bruce is being sarcastic to point out the ridiculous assumption.
Note the /eyeroll.
Not sure why he hasn’t been mentioned yet, but Ticciati in Gävle 2006-09.
Should have stayed there…
Are those thumbs down because they don’t think Ticciati was in Gavle?? I’ve checked, and he was. I sometimes just don’t understand these responses.
Neeme Järvi (GSO 1982–2004)
How a launchpad became a homestead.
This kind of continuity is crucial for any cultural establishment. But continuity is currently not supported by an increasingly impatient self-enamoured Twitter-society that strives for constant change.
You are waaaaay too kind to the “Twitter society”.
Oh, I don’t know — I still don’t use it, or see the point of it, but ever since the Twit-in-Chief has been expelled I have held it in marginally higher esteem.
Nobody should talk about the major Swedish orchestras as “launchpads.” Maybe they’re a little too far north so get overlooked sometimes, but the Stockholm Philharmonic, the Goteborg Symphony, and I assume the Swedish Radio Symphony are absolutely world-class orchestras. I even heard the Helsingborg SO on tour a couple years ago and they were outstanding. And who wouldn’t want to live/work in Stockholm?
Anyway, good for Mirga; another top engagement to burnish her growing resume.
Tu, felix Suecia!!!