Gustavo Gimeno’s visits to Toronto are growing more and more frequent. The conductor has been jetting away from his current post as Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg to guest conduct the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; his coming Roy Thomson Hall performances – three nights of concerts centred on Igor Stravinsky’s – will mark the latest in Gimeno’s string of sneak peeks on the podium before he officially begins his Music Directorship of the TSO in the fall of 2020.
Indigenous music; it’s new to me. I’ve been listening to things that I’ve never been confronted with. It’s very specific. I’m still in the process of getting to know it.It’s like the energy between two people. It depends on both, but you can’t think too hard about it, or you’re already influencing the atmosphere. An orchestra observes or feels something as soon as a conductor walks onto the stage of a rehearsal.