“Conductor Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla is having perhaps the best year in her budding career,” writes Tre’vell Anderson in Monday’s (8/10) Los Angeles Times. “After a stellar debut at the Hollywood Bowl last year, the 2012 winner of Salzburg, Austria’s, young conductor competition has been promoted from assistant conductor to associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. ‘As both a Dudamel Fellow and assistant conductor, the Los Angeles Philharmonic has afforded me tremendous growth, both personally and professionally,’ said a not-yet-30-years-old Grazinyte-Tyla in a statement…. Grazinyte-Tyla—slowly becoming known as Mirga, sans surname—studied choral music at the University of Music and Fine Arts in Graz, Austria. Eventually, she decided to switch to orchestral conducting.… Grazinyte-Tyla has led concerts with numerous European ensembles. She has also been appointed music director of the Salzburger Landestheater…. Grazinyte-Tyla’s new title becomes effective after the end of 2015-16 season, extending her L.A. Phil contract through the end of the 2017 season. She makes her second appearance at the Hollywood Bowl on Aug. 20, at 8 p.m., leading the L.A. Phil and violin soloist Alexandra Soumm in a program of Bernstein and Bizet.”
Posted August 11, 2015
Photo of Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla by Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times
