Chichon’s mark in LNSO’s new season

There’s no doubt that the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra is one of the calling cards of this Baltic country. Over the past few years the LNSO has, as Latvians put it, “picked up its strength” as the artistic level of the orchestra keeps growing, along with the numbers of its listeners. In the 2009/10 concert season, running until May 14, 2010, the orchestra is in the care of an outstanding Artistic Director, Gibraltar-born British conductor Karel Mark Chichon, hailed as one of today’s most exciting young artists, a conductor of genius as the New York Times put it.
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