Jaap van Zweden leads the New York Philharmonic.
In Tuesday’s (2/27) New York Times, Javier C. Hernández writes, “The conductor Jaap van Zweden does not leave his position as the New York Philharmonic’s music director until later this summer. But his post-New York plans are already taking shape. In January, van Zweden officially began a five-year term as the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra’s music director. And on Tuesday, he announced another new job: He will become music director of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, a French radio orchestra in Paris, for a five-year term starting in 2026. Van Zweden, 63, succeeds Mikko Franck, who will step down next year after a decade … Van Zweden will take over as music director designate next year … Van Zweden, who got his start as concertmaster of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam in 1979, when he was 19, said he was eager to once again be part of a European ensemble…. The orchestra’s players said they felt an immediate connection. ‘It was clear from the first rehearsal that we had found our new music director,’ Jean-Pierre Odasso, president of the musicians’ council, said … [Van Zweden’s] six-year tenure will be the shortest of any New York Philharmonic music director since Pierre Boulez.”
