The Making Of A Young Conductor – Who Knows?

“This may be the Age of the Young Conductor – the domination of older talents is being eroded by, among others, Gustavo Dudamel, now 29, in Los Angeles and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, 35, in Philadelphia – but most newcomers still start more or less at sea. ‘There’s no real track for conductors,” he said. “Nobody seems to know how this works. Part of my anxiety is that I have no idea what constitutes a foothold’.”