The concertmaster wants his brother hired as principal second

Matters at the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra have not improved greatly since they sacked most of the foreign players and earned themselves an international boycott.

Since then, music directors have come and gone and the atmosphere in the orchestra has only worsened.

A complaint made by one of the musicians to the Petronas oil company which governs the orchestra reveals that, in the absence of a music director, the Slovak concertmaster Peter Danis ‘seems to be taking on roles and responsibilities that traditionally belong to a music director’. In particular, he is backing his brother Miro Danis to join the orchestra, preferably as principal second violin.

Akiko Danis, Peter Danis’s wife, has been given a full-time contract as a pianist, even though the orchestra’s slim schedule does not justify a fulltime pianist.

The complaint has been logged by Petronas under reference number WB563_2023(1706).

We’ll let you know if the complaint is progressed.