Leena Jaakkola

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra elects Nicholas Collon as its next Chief Conductor

Collon will take over in autumn 2021.

The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra has elected Britain’s Nicholas Collon as its next Chief Conductor. He will take over in autumn 2021, on the completion of present Chief Conductor Hannu Lintu’s agreed term.

Focus on Faust and Dmitri Shostakovich in the FRSO’s 2019/2020 season

The guest conductors will include Esa-Pekka Salonen.

The 2019/2020 season of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra opens with Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, a big coproduction by the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) and the Helsinki Festival. Also enjoying a special status in the season’s varied symphonic offering are symphonies and concertos of Dmitri Shostakovich’s middle period.

Hannu Lintu to leave the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2021

“The years with the FRSO have been musically rewarding.”

Mr Hannu Lintu is to resign from his post as Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra at the end of his present term in spring 2021.

Jonas Silinskas

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