“Jaime Laredo will be stepping down as music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra at the end of the 2020-21 season,” writes Jim Lowe in Wednesday’s (9/18) Barre Montpelier Times Argus (Barre, VT). “ ‘After two decades of dynamic artistic leadership of the VSO, Jaime has decided that he will retire,’ Benjamin Cadwallader, VSO executive director, said…. Laredo took over the reins of the VSO in 2000…. Laredo is one of the world’s foremost violinists, a world-traveling conductor who began his career at Vermont’s own Marlboro Music Festival. Although a Guilford resident, Laredo was seen more often at Carnegie Hall. ‘Jaime is an artist of international renown, and his musical leadership has inspired the members of the VSO,’ … Cadwallader said. ‘His impact on the VSO, and on Vermont’s classical music scene, will be felt for decades to come.’ Laredo’s final concert with the VSO will be in May 2021. On Saturday at Burlington’s Flynn Center, he will open the 2019-20 VSO season as violin soloist with his wife, cellist Sharon Robinson, in Chris Brubeck’s ‘Pas de Deux,’ written for the couple. Then he will lead the VSO Made in Vermont Tour Sept. 26-Oct. 6, plus concerts … in January.”
Posted September 19, 2019
Photo of Jaime Laredo by Christian Steiner
