In Thursday’s (5/3) Australian, Matthew Westwood writes, “The four months Israeli conductor Asher Fisch spent in Adelaide in 2004 to drive the musical gears of the Ring cycle made him realise how much he enjoyed working in Australia. He has made several trips since then, but will become a more frequent visitor from 2014 when he takes up the baton as principal conductor of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. ‘I realised that I love being there and spending a long time there,’ Fisch says on the phone from Vienna, where he is conducting at the Staatsoper. ‘I thought that after doing so much opera and less concerts, I wanted to change that balance and focus more on symphonic music. Fisch will succeed Englishman Paul Daniel, whose five-year term in Perth ends next year. WASO chief executive Craig Whitehead approached him for the role. … Fisch has worked with many of the leading orchestras and opera companies in Europe and North America. He is principal guest conductor at Seattle Opera and a former music director of the New Israeli Opera and the Wiener Volksoper.”
Posted May 4, 2012
