The programme I’m about to take on 10th May with the Hungarian Symphony Radio Orchestra at the Müpa, Budapest, is in a sense a paradigm of one of my current symphonic interests,

The idea of conducting the Christus oratorio for the first time and of doing so at the Liszt Academy, on 22nd April,, in a perfect fusion of Hungarian musical and national history fills me with pride and honour.

I return to the Teatro Massimo di Palermo after several years, and I do so with an ambitious symphonic programme, keen to reconnect with the spaces of this beautiful Sicilian theatre and with the voice of its orchestra.

At a time when my work as a conductor of symphonic works is taking me around Europe to lead some exceptional orchestras, I consider it a great honour to be conducting the programme selected with the Göteborg Opera Orchestra entitled “Italian Emotions”.