Featured Artists

Andris Nelsons

Conductor

Born in 1978 into a musical family in Riga, Latvia, Andris Nelsons is currently the Music Director and Conductor of the Gewandhausorchester and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is recognized as one of the most renowned and innovative conductors in the international music scene. Nelsons has received multiple Grammy Awards for his recordings of the complete symphonies by Shostakovich with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He was Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 2008-2015, Principal Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford, Germany 2006-2009 and Music Director of the Latvian National Opera 2003-2007.