“If all goes according to the plan announced Wednesday morning in the concourse of Place des Arts, Yannick Nézet-Séguin will become a 20-year man with his hometown Orchestre Métropolitain,” writes Arthur Kaptainis in last Wednesday’s (9/16) Montreal Gazette. “ ‘My commitment has never wavered to the first orchestra that was prepared to place its trust in a young conductor 15 years ago,’ Nézet-Séguin said at a gathering in which he was reconfirmed as artistic director and principal conductor until 2020-21…. The 40-year-old former wunderkind is also attached to the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Earlier this year he extended his contract as music director of the former ensemble until 2021-22 and announced that 2017-18 would be his last season as music director of the latter after a decade.… As well as four of ten of the OM concerts in the Maison symphonique, he will lead his orchestra this season in a November run of Strauss’s Elektra.… While concerts in Montreal suburbs remain a staple of its outreach mission, the orchestra will make an impression on travellers from abroad in an exhibition at Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport.”
Posted September 23, 2015
