Jonathon Heyward is a conductor whose star is swiftly rising — and he’s about to assume a prominent new position in New York City.
is a conductor whose star is swiftly rising — and he’s about to assume a prominent new position in New York City.
Jonathon Heyward conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center in 2022, where he felt "this amazing chemistry" right from the start.Tiffany Hanssen: When you conducted the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra last summer for your Lincoln Center debut, something special must have happened. Describe it for us.
You are also taking over a new role at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, one of the biggest, most prominent ensembles in the U.S. How are you approaching that role? What are your main objectives there? I think what we can all take from this time, as live performers, is the great power of being in a concert hall, of being in theaters, being in opera houses. Having that taken away, I think, has really made me realize and appreciate the great responsibility of community, and this idea of being able to support our communities culturally. Getting back to the concert halls, and getting people comfortable again, is a huge part of how we program what we're programming.
I don't know if I necessarily quote-unquote prepare myself for it, but what I am constantly trying to be aware of is that we are serving a community, and that community includes donors, that community includes civic leaders. Being able to just have conversations, understand what they have seen in the past, what they want to see in the future... you know, I've had a lot of coffees with a lot of people.
Being able to marry these two — the new with the old, if you will — is something that I'm really passionate about. Again, that responsibility I talked about, the responsibility of continuing the evolution, the natural progression, of where the classical music art form is going is an important part of my artistic dream and vision, and certainly as well important to the Baltimore Symphony and Lincoln Center.
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