An American takes over a French national orchestra

An American takes over a French national orchestra

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norman lebrecht

October 10, 2023

The next conductor of the Orchestre national de Lille will be the peripatetic American Joshua Weilerstein. He starts a year from now.

Weilerstein, 35, has just started work as Chief Conductor of the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in Jutland, Denmark.

At Lille he succeeds Alexandre Bloch, who will have served for eight years.

photo: Paul Marc Mitchell/Intermusica

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