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Met Opera Carnegie Hall Contemporary Classical Music Period

Klaus Mäkelä, 28, to Lead American Top Orchestra

Kentaro Ogasawara April 2, 2024

Mäkelä will become the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

He said it has “that intensity — that same sound from the past.”

This is article from New York Times by Javier C. Hernández

“You felt as if anything you would ask, they could actually improve and do more,” he said, recalling his recent guest appearances there. “For a conductor, that is a very, very special feeling because you see that there really are no limits to what you can achieve.”

The orchestra hopes that Mäkelä can help attract new audiences to classical music, including younger concertgoers.

“There is nothing wrong with old people,” Mäkelä said. “But of course, ideally, we would have a very wide-ranging diverse audience.”

During his tenure, Mäkelä said he hoped to tackle standard repertoire like Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, as well as less commonly performed works like Monteverdi’s “Vespro della Beata Vergine” and William Walton’s choral work “Belshazzar’s Feast.”

He also said he would make commissioning new pieces a priority, naming Unsuk Chin, Thomas Larcher, Andrew Norman and Anna Thorvaldsdottir as some of his favorite contemporary composers.

“I feel that we can have a completely new chapter for the orchestra in terms of repertoire, in terms of developing the same amazing sound,” he said, “but having it as flexible as possible.”

The Chicago Symphony is also working to bring more women and people of color into the ensemble. The orchestra has 59 men and 34 women, and only a few Black and Latino members.

Because the pandemic delayed auditions, the orchestra has an unusually high number of vacancies, 15, which Mäkelä said was an “opportunity for change.” He will start weighing in on auditions immediately, the orchestra said.

Mäkelä, who trained at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, said some of his models were Esa-Pekka Salonen, a fellow Finn who recently announced he was stepping down from the San Francisco Symphony, pointing to his experiments with music and technology. And he expressed admiration for Kirill Petrenko, the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, saying he had shown courage in programming.

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マケラがシカゴ交響楽団の音楽監督に就任する。

彼は「過去からのあの音、あの強烈さがある」と語った。

これはニューヨーク・タイムズのハビエル・C・ヘルナンデスによる記事である。

「何をお願いしても、オーケストラは実際にそれを改善し、さらに高めることができると感じました」と彼は最近の客演を振り返りながら述べた。「指揮者にとって、これは非常に特別な感覚です。達成できることに本当に限界がないとわかるのです。」

オーケストラは、マケラ氏が若い聴衆を含む新しいクラシック音楽のファンを引きつける手助けになることを期待している。

「年配の方々に問題があるわけではありません」とマケラは述べた。「しかし理想的には、幅広く多様な聴衆を迎えたいと考えています。」

就任期間中、マケラ氏はマーラーの『復活』交響曲やバッハの『マタイ受難曲』などの定番レパートリーに取り組むだけでなく、モンテヴェルディの『聖母マリアの晩課』やウィリアム・ウォルトンの合唱作品『ベルシャザールの饗宴』といった、あまり演奏されない作品にも挑戦したいと語った。

さらに、新作委嘱を優先事項とし、好きな現代作曲家としてチン・ウンスク、トーマス・ラルヒャー、アンドリュー・ノーマン、アンナ・ソルヴァルズドッティルの名前を挙げた。

「オーケストラにとって、レパートリーや音色の発展という面で、まったく新しい章を開くことができると感じています」と彼は述べた。「同じ素晴らしい音を保ちながら、可能な限り柔軟にしたいのです。」

シカゴ交響楽団はまた、女性や有色人種のメンバーを増やす取り組みも進めている。現在のメンバーは男性59人、女性34人で、黒人やラテン系のメンバーはわずかである。

パンデミックの影響でオーディションが遅れたため、オーケストラには通常より多い15の空席があり、マケラ氏はこれを「変革のチャンス」と語った。オーケストラによれば、彼はすぐにオーディションの審査に関わり始めるという。

ヘルシンキのシベリウス・アカデミーで学んだマケラ氏は、モデルとしてフィンランド出身のエサ=ペッカ・サロネンを挙げた。サロネンは最近サンフランシスコ交響楽団を退任すると発表しており、音楽と技術の実験的取り組みを参考にしている。また、ベルリン・フィルの首席指揮者キリル・ペトレンコに対しては、プログラム編成において勇気を示したことに敬意を表している。

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