Downtime Videos

ConductIT produced a series of short videos from conductors with advice on what aspiring conductors can do during the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020-21.


Sir Mark Elder

Music Director of Hallé Orchestra, Manchester, England

Chloé van Soeterstède

RNCM Graduate, Taki Concordia Conducting Fellow, UK


Atso Amila

Former Professor of Conducting, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland

Nicolás Pasquet

Hochschuhle für Musik “Franz Liszt”,
Weimar, Germany

Mark Heron

Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, England

Professor Mark Stringer

Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien, Austria


Antony Hermus

Opera North & Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Netherlands

Duncan Ward

Chief Conductor Designate of philharmonie zuidnederland

Courtney Lewis

Music Director, Jacksonville Symphony,
Florida, USA

Simon Halsey

Chorus Director, London Symphony Orchestra, CBSO
Conductor Laureate, Rundfunkchor Berlin Germany

Marin Alsop

Chief Conductor, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Music Director, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Maryland USA

Gergely Madaras

Music Director, Liège Royal Philharmonic, Belgium
Chief Conductor, Savaria Symphony Orchestra, Hungary


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