Finnish conductor pays to save national youth orchestra
OrchestrasThe conductor Mikko Franck has donated 75,000 Euros to enable Vivo, Finland’s only national youth symphony orchestra, to function until the end of the year.
Mikko told the national broadcaster YLE he was doing it because the orchestra had given him his first experience as a player. ‘ I gained experience playing, but I also met like-minded young people from different parts of Finland,’ he said. ‘You can’t be lulled into the fact that Finland is a wonderland of music forever and ever, but you have to work (for it) constantly.’
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