Mr. Laredo will be seen in all the spheres of musical activity that he has embraced, each with complete comfort and astonishing success: violinist, violist, conductor, chamber music partner, teacher.
Last week, the multi-talented Thomas Adès was appointed artistic partner with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a newly created post that allows him to showcase and premiere his own music, and expand on his work as conductor, chamber musician and lieder accompanist.
14, 15, 21 Christian Zacharias, pianist and conductor; Lausanne Chamber Orchestra (MDG 940 1646-6; CD).
PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 3, 4, 11 Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist and conductor; Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (EMI Classics 5 56960 2; CD).
Under the artistic direction of Michael Jinbo, Sunday symphonic, opera and pops concerts led by student conductors; Wednesday chamber concerts.
The musicians of Orpheus point to their acclaimed, conductor-less chamber orchestra as a role model for group decision-making and individual empowerment.
A new generation of conductors, composers, chamber players and music executives has come of age, and they don't ignore my agent's calls as their older colleagues once did.
What better way for him to get to know his colleagues and conductor than play chamber music with them?
Mr. Hoffman, who is the executive director and conductor of the chamber orchestra, said his concert was not intended as a challenge to the philharmonic.
March 7 2015 Alan Gilbert and Courtney Lewis, the orchestra's assistant conductor, lead a chamber orchestra drawn from the Philharmonic's ranks in its next new-music adventure, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Throughout, the conductor kept the chamber-sized violin section, with fewer than twenty players, diaphanous, to let the darker sonic undercurrents of bassoons and French horns, double basses and harp whisper through.
