Kirill Petrenko’s assistant makes his Berlin debut tonight
OrchestrasThe exceptionally well-educated Christian Blex, first assistant to Kirill Petrenko, makes his debut tonight with the Karajan-Akademie orchestra. He will conduct Mahler’s fourth symphony with works by Bernd-Alois Zimmermann.
Blex, 29, studied politics at Warwick and economics at Cambridge; he is presently completing a PhD at the Alan Turing Institute.
On the muical front, he has studied in Oslo, Zurich and Weimar before winning the coveted slot in Berlin.
British opergoers will know his work at Nevill Holt Opera.
He is almost over-qualified.
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