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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Musical Chairs Update

Here are the latest updates:
  • BBC Philharmonic. Omer Meir Wellber is Music Director Designate, replacing Juanjo Mena.
  • Washington National Opera. Evan Rogister named Principal Conductor in September, 2018, replacing Philippe Auguin.
  • Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Maxim Emelyanychev replaces Robin Ticciati.
  • Winnipeg SO. Daniel Raiskin replaces Alexander Mickelthwate as of 2018-19.
  • Toronto SO has signed Gustavo Gimeno, who will start in 2020, following the 2018 departure of Peter Oundjian. Sir Andrew Davis is interim Artistic Director.
  • Antonio Pappano has extended his Royal Opera contract by two years, to 2022; RO removed from the open posts list.
And here's a correction, thanks to San Francisco Opera's communications department:
  • Nicola Luisotti is now Associate Director of the Teatro Real, Madrid, not "assistant music director". My bad.
Still open:

  • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: currently looking owing to departure of Charles Dutoit
  • Orchestre National de Lyon: open now, with Leonard Slatkin's departure
  • Opera North: open now, with Aleksandr Markovic's departure
  • Opera Theatre of Saint Louis: 2017 is Stephen Lord's final season as MD
  • Teatro Regio Turin: Open now with departure of Gianandrea Noseda 
  • Minnesota Opera: Michael Christie leaves this year 
  • Sao Paulo Symphony: Marin Alsop leaves at some point
  • Berkeley Symphony, when Joana Carneiro leaves at the end of 2017-18
  • San Francisco Opera, departure of Nicola Luisotti at conclusion of 2017-18
  • Detroit Symphony Orchestra, which Leonard Slatkin leaves at the close of the 2017-18 season.
  • MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony: 2018 departure for Kristian Jarvi
  • Orchestre de Paris, when Daniel Harding leaves at the end of 2018-19
  • Sarasota Orchestra after Anu Tali  leaves at the end of 2018-2019
  • Melbourne Symphony: Sir Andrew Davis leaves at the end of 2019 
  • Ulster Orchestra: Rafael Payare leaves in 2019
  • Richmond Symphony: Steven Smith leaves in 2019 
  • Singapore Symphony: 2019 departure for Lan Shui
  • Dresden Philharmonic: 2019 departure for Michael Sanderling
  • Sydney Symphony Orchestra: David Robertson will be leaving the SSO at the end of 2019. So he really will be without an orchestral home as of 1/1/2020.
  • San Francisco Symphony! when MTT leaves at the end of 2019-20
  • Montreal Symphony Orchestra: Kent Nagano is leaving the OSM after 2019-2020. 
  • Fort Worth Symphony: Miguel Harth-Bedoya leaves in 2020 
  • Opera de Paris, when Philippe Jordan leaves in 2020
  • Atlanta Symphony, when Robert Spano leaves in 2020
  • Virginia Symphony: JoAnn Falletta leaves in 2020
  • BBC National Orchestra of Wales when Thomas Søndergård leaves for his new job
  • Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

3 comments:

  1. Toronto has signed Gustavo Gimeno, he'll be starting in the 2020/21 season (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-symphony-orchestra-announces-new-conductor-1.4827835)

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  2. Thanks! I'm about to add that to the list above.

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  3. More updates for you:
    * Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Vasily Petrenko becomes their music director in 2021
    * Dresden Philharmonic: Marek Janowski becomes their chief conductor in 2019 (round 2 for him there)

    Plus other orchestras not on the initial list:
    * Oslo Philharmonic: Klaus Makela becomes their chief conductor in 2020
    * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra: Nicholas McGegan steps down as music director in 2020

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