Tim Smith reports Wednesday (7/9) in the Baltimore Sun, “The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has appointed Markus Stenz as principal guest conductor for a three-year term commencing with the 2015-16 season. The German conductor, who is principal conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra … will be on the [Baltimore Symphony Orchestra] podium next May as a guest conductor. BSO music director Marin Alsop said she is ‘delighted to be joined by long-time friend and colleague Markus Stenz.… When Markus debuted with the BSO [in 2012], he immediately struck a rapport with our musicians, and they were as enthusiastic as I about creating a position that would bring him to Baltimore on a regular basis.’ ” Also announced by the orchestra were the appointments of Ken Lam as associate conductor for education—Lam is music director of the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra, music director designate of the Charleston (S.C.) Symphony Orchestra, and an alumnus of the League of American Orchestras’ Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview; Nicholas Hersh, former music director of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, as assistant conductor; and Michael Repper, a doctoral candidate at Peabody Conservatory, as the 2014-15 BSO-Peabody conducting fellow.
Posted July 10, 2014
