After a wonderful summer with visits to Estonia, Italy (on holiday in Tuscany!), Romania and England, I am now back home and ready to start working on the repertoire for the new season. I have two concerts coming up at the Komische Oper, conducting my former colleagues, which is always a privilege, and something I am looking forward to very much. In October I will be working with the Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra in Bristol again, in a programme including Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, two of my favourite pieces that I have played as a bassoonist several times, but never conducted before. In November and December I have projects at the University of the Arts in Berlin, before 2017 takes me further afield…
