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A Greek violinist and conductor, Leonidas Kavakos has generated a reputation like a virtuoso performer in both concerto and chamber repertoires. Elevated inside a musical family members, Kavakos started playing his device at age group 5 and pursued lessons with Stelios Kafantaris in the Hellenic Conservatory, and later on at …

In the 1980s Osmo Vänskä successfully transitioned from primary clarinetist to conductor and continued to hold a number of the world’s most prestigious and coveted conducting content, including music director from the Minnesota Orchestra. In fact, the changeover was rather short: Vänskä earned the 1982 Besançon Youthful Conductors Competition and …