Japan pins down Heidelberg conductor
OrchestrasThe Sapporo Symphony has chosen Elias Grandy as Principal Conductor from 2025.
The German-Japanese musician, 43, has been music director in Heidelberg from 2015 until earlier this year.
Sapporo is a 74-person orchestra with 120 concerts a year.
A very gifted and serious no-nonsense conductor. Congratulations!
Elias Grandy led the Utah Symphony this past summer in a finely and energetically-shaped Beethoven Symphony No. 2 at Park City’s St. Mary’s Catholic Church, a lovely setting, with a superb acoustic. Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite was also on the program, in a sensitive and idiomatic performance.
Mr. Grandy is a conductor coming up through the ranks, as all good conductors should eventually, given the right opportunities.
Bravo!!!!!! Awesome choice! Serious musician!
I am very happy for you, Elias!