Our conductor interviews end with the person chosen to lead the SSO to new artistic heights and performance excellend — Ludovic Morlot. Morlot was one of the few conductors I didn’t meet. I was in New York when he was here last fall and when he returned in the spring, an exploding volcano in Iceland and compressed rehearsal schedule prevented an interview then too.
Seattle met Ludovic Morlot today. Not for the first time of course. Morlot guest conducted the SSO twice last season. But it was the first time as the SSO’s music director designate. Morlot will assume his music director duties officially in 2011, but he is already planning his first season with the orchestra and making friends with orchestra musicians, orchestra staff, and of course the city. I will be posting more video from today’s public introduction. Until then, here is a video of my interview with the young maestro from yesterday.
SSO music director designate Ludovic Morlot talks with TGN from gatheringnote on Vimeo.
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I love his answer about not being married to any particular repertoire. To my ears, that translates to concert seasons with a lot of variety. That is perfect in my opinion, especially with the composers he mentioned – Schumann, Stravinsky, Ravel, Haydn.
Good interview, Zach. If people want to hear Morlot conducting Beyond the Score with the Chicago Symphony, we’ll be posting his most recent production, Debussy’s La Mer online at http://www.cso.org on Aug. 30th.
There are also six full-length Beyond the Score videos available as free downloads now at http://beyondthescore.org/programs.html. These productions are amazing. Highly recommended, as Morlot says in your interview.