All shall have prizes: Dutch love Jaap
OrchestrasThe Concertgebouw Prize is to be awarded on april 18 to conductor Jaap van Zweden ‘for his exceptional contribution to the artistic profile of The Concertgebouw. Van Zweden is presently departing as music director of the New York Philharmonic.
At age 19 he was the youngest ever concertmaster of the Concertgebouw orchestra, before taking up the baton. He says: ‘The Concertgebouw is my frame of reference against which I compare every concert hall in the world. The sound, the atmosphere, the history: this is a unique place in the world that the Netherlands should cherish.’
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