The Score | Nézet-Séguin Named Musical America’s Artist of the Year

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra and of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, and principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic, has been named Artist of the Year by Musical America. The conductor, pictured at right on the cover of MA’s 2016 International Directory of the Performing Arts, was honored December 8 at an awards ceremony in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Terrace Room, along with Tod Machover, Composer of the Year; violinist Jennifer Koh, Instrumentalist of the Year; tenor Mark Padmore, Vocalist of the Year; and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Ensemble of the Year.