Paavo Järvi to succeed Edward Gardner at helm of London Philharmonic
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<p>The Estonian will take over as chief conductor of ‘this wonderful historic orchestra’ from the 2028/29 season, when Gardner’s current contract ends</p><p>The London Philharmonic Orchestra announced on Tuesday that Paavo Järvi will succeed Edward Gardner as chief conductor from the 2028-29 season, when Gardner’s current contract comes to an end.</p><p>Järvi, 63, was born in Estonia into a musical dynasty. His father, Neeme is also a conductor, his younger brother
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Paavo Järvi to succeed Edward Gardner at helm of London Philharmonic The Estonian will take over as chief conductor of ‘this wonderful historic orchestra’ from the 2028/29 season, when Gardner’s current contract ends The London Philharmonic Orchestra announced on Tuesday that Paavo Järvi will succeed Edward Gardner as chief conductor from the 2028-29 season, when Gardner’s current contract comes to an end. Järvi, 63, was born in Estonia into a musical dynasty. His father, Neeme is also a conductor, his younger brother Kristjan too. The family moved to the US in 1980, and Järvi studied at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music and at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute with Leonard Bernstein. Over a storied career he has worked with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Malmö Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Tokyo’s NHK Symphony and the Orchestre de Paris, where he was music director from 2010-16. He has been the artistic director of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen for more than two decades. In 2011 he founded the Pärnu music festival and its resident Estonian Festival Orchestra, and since 2019 he has been the chief conductor of Tonhalle-Orchester, Zurich. A regular visitor to the UK with these orchestras and as a guest conductor of the Philharmonia as well as the LPO, Järvi said it was a New Year 2025 tour to China with the orchestra that confirmed for him their chemistry. “When I first conducted the LPO it was immediately obvious that we matched well, that there was energy. I usually try not to work during Christmas and New Year but when they asked me to conduct them on the tour I accepted because I understood this was something very special,” he said. “I grew up listening to recordings by this wonderful historic orchestra,” he said. “They’ve been famous in our house since I was a child.” He is looking forward to embedding himself in the UK’s musical world which he knows well – he has had a home in the capital for...
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