Geneva maestro is paid half a million for 2 months’ work

The Orchestre de la Suisse romande, long known as one of the world’s worst managed orchestras, has turned a new leaf and come clean about what it is paying its music director, the English conductor Jonathan Nott.

Nott’s salary comes to  550,000 Swiss francs ($587,263), for which he spends as little as 64 days of the year in Geneva.

On top of that, he is paid 52,500 francs for accommodation in Geneva, which includes travel to and from his home in Lucerne. Nott, 59, has an open-ended lifetime contract with the orchestra, dating from February last year. He is managed by AskonasHolt in London.

Nott is also music director of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. His father was a humble priest at Worcester Cathedral.

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