Exclusive: Concertgebouw to announce chief conductor

Amsterdam’s premier orchestra is about to announce progress in its four-year search for a figurehead, a vacancy that has yawned since it fired Daniele Gatti in August 2018.

Today, the C’bouw tells us:

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to a press conference at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on Friday, 10 June at 10.30 a.m., when we will be announcing to the national and international press excellent news about the search for our next chief conductor.

Musicians tell us that a deal has been struck with the young Finn Klaus Makela, 26, to take over as chief conductor.

But only from 2027, when he winds up contracts with Oslo and Paris.

That’s an awful long time to go headless.