RSNO/Oundjian –review

Usher Hall, EdinburghThis was an big night for Peter Oundjian – his first with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra since it was announced he will be taking over as music director when Stéphane Denève leaves in 2012. So far the audience knows little about Oundjian but the bare bones of his biography: he is Canadian but educated in England; he played first violin in the Tokyo String Quartet for 14 years until a muscle condition called focal dystonia forced a career change; his first encoura...

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