This year’s second Finnish Conducting School masterclass in Sofia had a special theme “The Art of Rehearsing the Orchestra”. The students worked with Sofia Sinfonietta on masterpieces by Mendelssohn, Mozart and Rossini, and gained insight into the...
When you mention the term “Finnish conducting school”, no doubt the first thing to come to mind are the Finnish conductors of nearly legendary status such as Paavo Berglung (1929–2012), Leif Segerstam (b. 1944), Okko Kamu (b. 1946) or Esa-Pekka Salonen (b. 1958)....