Japan hires Mahler winner

Japan hires Mahler winner

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norman lebrecht

May 18, 2022

The Japan Philharmonic has chosen the Singaporean conductor Kahchun Wong as its next music director, starting September 2023.

Wong, 35, won the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in 2016 and was a one-term music director at the Nuremberg Symphony, stepping down this summer.

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