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The San Antonio Symphony has named Sebastian Lang-Lessing as its new Music Director, ending a three year search for Larry Rachleff's replacement. Texas Public Radio's John Clare has the story.
February 16, 2010 · The San Antonio Symphony announced this morning that Sebastian Lang-Lessing will be its new music director, ending a three year search to replace Larry Rachleff. Lang-Lessing is currently Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and will conduct one concert this fall in San Antonio, as well as eight weeks next spring.
He says he is proud to become the eighth music director of the San Antonio Symphony:
“I have to say I am really, really grateful to be able to do this, and to be able to do this repertoire is such a blessing,” Lang-Lessing says. “We all should all [be thankful for] how great it is to make music.”
The San Antonio Symphony’s 2010-2011 season will begin October 2. Guest artists will include superstar pianist Lang Lang and violinist Robert McDuffie. You can see interviews with Sebastian Lang-Lessing on the KPAC blog.
SASymphony Music Directors
Max Reiter, 1939-1950
Victor Alessandro, 1950-1976
François Huybrechts, 1978-1980
Lawrence Leighton Smith, 1980-1985
Zdeněk Mácal, 1988-1990
Christopher Wilkins, 1992-2000
Larry Rachleff, 2004-2008
Sebastian Lang Lessing, 2010-
About Lang-Lessing
Sebastian Lang-Lessing is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO). His dynamic performances have won praise from the international press: '[the] performance’s sophistication and sensuality comes from the pit’ (LA Times, 2007); ‘the orchestra sparkles and glows under the heated conducting of Sebastian Lang-Lessing. Viva Carmen!’ (Houston Press, 2006); ‘it was Lang-Lessing, in his company debut, who steered Tuesday’s opening to its greatest moments of success’ (San Francisco Times, 2005).
Awarded the Ferenc Fricsay Prize in Berlin at the age of 24, he subsequently took up a conducting post at the Hamburg State Opera, was appointed resident conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and later Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy. Under his direction, the Opéra de Nancy was elevated o national status becoming the Opéra national de Lorraine.
His international career started at the Opéra Bastille de Paris, followed by engagements at Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Colorado Denver, Opéra de Bordeaux, Hamburg State Opera, and the Operahouses in Oslo, Stockholm and Capetown. Future guest engagements in 2010 include opera productions at the West Australian Opera, Opera Colorado in Denver and Capetown Opera. |
