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Here we are thank you for your patience. First of all may have your permission to record this for broadcast. Yes. Thank you. My listeners were going to be hearing a lot from you in the future will you please tell me some of your background in music. Yeah I started playing piano when I was four years old not reason because my parents were why I want to be a musician. I think my parents bought me a piano for discipline and aspect of it. And to sit while I played for 15 minutes a day and do something to concentrate and that in to just be music. And since I started I just fell in love with music and start making music. And then I was introduced to one very distinguished flute teacher 14 years old. Because I want to cause some kind of Special Music School and because my aunt was a friend of this this wonderful teacher and I prayed for

the reason I got to the other used to them and this is very hard for a reason because I cannot show my hand if I have a little show of the finger done praying to have some demitted to pieces like a list of some of you in Chopin too and I felt some kind of the imitation of the piano playing and I want to pursue some music and I did not care at that time what he's to amend because I just love music making. So I decided to do some search for that and found out the flute teachers available to me that waiting introduced and that's the bring a flute quite easy and I have and see my fruity just thought that was very. I think talented were the way she put and but that it's a little trouble to getting school music school because she had the other student was paying over for five years and trying to the same school and only two

openings and she wants me to get into this cause this is for the well. Do you mind for the instrument to the well what the cement do you want me to pray the law about the French on so I have something in French on about a month before entrance examination. Then I play the audition and she has one image juries of 40 Judy's at that time after I played some they threw over a toot and scale back about 30 seconds of praying and I said thank you very much and that's it and that's that. And I left and then right after that to my for teachers to the up and told the whole jury that he's a very talented fisherman so I got on the highest score of history of school and now I think ninety eight out of 100 and I got in just wonderful music school coach told whole school music in Tokyo. It's a high school college sort of 70 it's called special music and then now turn to

this town of the event always after I entered school. I met one of the most distinguished wonderful teachers name is he Dale sayto who also creator founder of the school music and those he is one of the greatest conducting teacher and I. I failed somehow to know him I want to see him at police. I don't think I'm being a conductor but I just have to see him so I went made a point to mend I went down there and this first meeting what he had to say about music and also it's pretty tricky too to me being a conductor because he just so many things he could do and so many repertoire. And once again I was being a friend Sean that time but there the limited apiece is nothing only the French the music I love all the music but I when they explore all kinds of music and conducting the best tool too. Two to make a great music and symphonies and opera and embody music and food I said of a

conducting conductor and so I studied with him for a while. Yeah now I have no fortune that he died. He is of that is also a known teacher of our He's a current to music that octo Basile Symphony and he was a very first student and I ended up becoming the last student at the whole school music and I'd pursue the music Korea and a school graduate told school music. Then I need something more and I asked my source say gee we just happen to camp come back to school to conduct a concert with us. I asked me if I could be close to him and he said Well I'm very busy but if you come to Boston maybe you can see my rehearsal maybe have a chance to talk to her here and there so I said why not. I had to go to Boston. On the far side he said well the best place to be than Tanglewood Music Festival and so I enrolled being a conducting a student and then the big tunnel event was hyped

as a Meet the maestro Bronstein and then I went up to MPs who are in the study with and he said Well. I'm very busy say more story they've been fairly busy but if you come to rehearsals maybe have a chance to talk to you. I thought I'd said I did New York allowed me he was going to commute for how many and then become more close to him talking to music about that. So I he said took me as a sort of student is the wrong word because he's always be these everywhere Vienna to Paris to barely into Post New York. And all of a but I could not follow him everywhere but when he was nearby I was well up to him and ask questions 3000 questions. Benny always said oh here comes a Mr question. What can I do this time and he answers everything Christian. I asked him. So that lasted but 12 years until he day he died. So I learned a great deal of

conducting and making music. Being an artist from my sort of boss and same time of course metaphysics was very helpful to me. I went millions rehearsals Boston Symphony's me and he always took me at the rehearsal of the concert so I learned a lot of conducting from great artist and then now become a conductor. Well I should i hope should show the nuff for you. Well you're certainly not shy are you. I'm very shy. But that comes to what I think is the need to. I think it's now I found out being a great become a good musician to go out there and kill him all those wonder for just get idea from them and talk to him and that that's when I do and I'm a very shy person actually but come to what I really think I need to be I wanted and I would go out there to get it like

a food I'm getting hungry I have to eat and I need some guidance I needed to the knowledge of music and ideal music I was so hungry for all kind of thing. And so I went up there every conductor of every artist not just conducting because I love the way they made music and after so many questions that beauty menu in some corner of the crowd you are clean Davis must a mother who are. And if you took part Jojo and all those great artists I come close to maybe 15 feet from them I went up to the helo to shake hands and start asking questions how do you do this how widespread what happened. I'm a student do ing it and I think I'm can wait walking that is for the West Coast if I noticed it because I have so many great friends telling me about this wonderful orchestra and I'm here to done from them

and I'd like to and send them off to make music with them and I just can't wait for them. Would you please tell me what's on the programme when you're performing with them. I want to open that was a Brown's fourth symphony with some of the most melancholy yet powerful symphony. And so I can get to know each other with the audience and the orchestra and then second half the program I chose a piece a production spring by Copeland and since I live now for three four years in Pennsylvania I think that the thought of my hometown music to Freud and I'm going to conclude the Firebird based sort of Inskeep. Very fiery music. It's quite a variety there. Yeah I think I'd like to get well. I think I'm like almost like a tourist and a guest inside as I like to capture the every essence of this orchestra

and the city can offer and I think I would like to be a just more tourist site doing to define the kind of music. Yet it's good programming because of the Brahms and second half of the Copen Stravinsky which is 20th century music not disco 20th century music. It's all recognize music and melodies and so I can enjoy all kinds of things from this orchestra as a tourist and as a guest. When you when you were playing the French horn and you had made such a quick transition from playing the flute to playing the French horn and then all of a sudden you decided that you wanted to be a conductor at least to this point. Have you found fulfillment in your search. It seems like you're searching for fulfillment in a musical in the musical genre. Have you found that in conducting Not yet.

I'm keep searching it. I do finding extremely joy making music with wonderful guests. I have walked with and it is a joy every moment is exciting every moment is something new to me and I have not yet to find a goal or what I want to achieve for the music or the but I think that's a position of rest of my life. I don't think I will ever find it. I still have to play piano. I pray a lot for chamber music and some of the side of it and I do not play french anymore so they're not fruit. But I'm trying to broaden my my possibility to all kinds of music which is which is. Something I have to do the rest of my life find it I don't think I'll find it. But this coming here instead of the working for the West Coast Symphony Orchestra I was suddenly going to give me more new new ideas

and new music making and just exciting to just see simply exciting to come new August and walk in a new city and meeting out some new people and that's the type of life I think I enjoy the most. Meeting new people and working with the new musicians and such a short time I'm sure I can already feel i can we can do a lot of good can come push out together and I will enjoy this orchestra and the city can offer to a great deal of music and a wonderful community and human being. Why. While I have you on the phone of course I have to ask you about Minnesota. Yeah. How did this happen I don't I'm not familiar with the process of selecting a music director. No I think you idea that you have the same I desire I have I have no idea how this happened yet. Yes I am a next music director of the Minnesota Orchestra and I am a now it's a title of the musical director designate. So

I would take over some somewhat odd imitative walk. Already I'm going to start from right after this week and I want to do auditions and some programme making and fine of some guest conductor guest artist far from sodomite my season. Once again I am not familiar with the surge process. They keep very quiet. I did not know another fact till the week before announcement. Till then I didn't. Never had any official encounter by the orchestra. I think they searched all my background they searched what accomplished in Erie. Oh you know how many and what I accomplished all those MY ALL guess so they called they found they talked a lot of people know I was awful C-8 and I was used to sort of conductor in Boston and out of money. And then finally they won the feud that iGate came into clones of the seamy and I believe that was Oktober And I

think that time they failed. This guy excuse it but I did not hear from them til weeks before announcement which is November 4th of November and the first time the president will guest Mr Hislop told me that we would like to talk to you. And I felt well what this is all about I did not did not get coal from the frost car that I could walk with them a few occasions not many occasions one only one time I walked through them with the full custody of what he and a half ago and less of the time as a second performance was there was an outcry to the house the size of August and last two as a one but I just spent talking I did with Empire brass and a brass section of NSA pokus that we did something very small and then invaded US performance with them was that I did this to have been ski's. These two are the sort of dot The Soldier's Tale its own unique way of federal musicians. And getting some more on each performance and I making some hint.

I thought if I'm going to hint but I did not know that the going on and finally after the phone goes well OK I'll see you in the wind down there to talk to my photos. They my ask me some kind of idea it's what I like to do in the future. I engage a man to witness a focused but then woman got down there and said well we're questioning you as a muse with the stunned I just opened my mouth while I was at the airport what what is going on I did not get the idea is we doing and find at least talking about two days 24 hours a day about idea what they'd like to accomplish and that what I would be contributing this great orchestra and we reached agreement for the well decision we will go and we announced week later and I for one was by then the full running I will I didn't even send the resume or anything I did and I think these all these big orchestra they do crows so much I believe they just don't contact anybody.

They will look into it and then a cold musician a conductor they feel interested in and I think I'm the very first one and that's that because they decided to do it. That's exciting. Are you at all intimidated by the history of the orchestra. No I don't. Well it is a grade or no and looking at all of the past musical director was just amazing when asked if we're using all Monday to me to top pros and toward the negative. And now it's just you know the names I grew up with and it is it is not intimate and it is great to be part of this great organization but yet I've learned over the music making of the no limit no line no difference between so they know racism or no Asian made two and those six difference I don't think it's anything to do with music and I want my life just I want to make a great music.

One of the greatest orchestra in the world the Oilers tried to make a music with me and once again of a humble before the orchestra and the composer but also what I do best is just making music with them. And that's all my life doing that although it might be great teachers always told me to see you making music. What fame got to do is what excess got to do with making music. And I agree with them now because before Beethoven before Brahms. I don't think anything is not important to be anymore I just want to make a great music and that's what I'm here for and I will go anywhere if I can make a way to music I'm a musician and I don't question what I do and if I sort of question what I do I don't think I should be a conductor or even musician. I just wave my arm and

talked to some member through my hand and then what I can create we can create together and they did great once again for greatness or not to have a mix of the orchestra but also we're doing wonderful things in Erie Melkus always current music. And the whole community is a part of it I think because of the realize. That conduct should not be always now as old as busy conduct as going one city even their music doctor they just a week of concert and they go out of the cities and I don't believe in conducting hotel rooms. I believe in a study from from my own home and and make a great music but also it's important to be part of a community which I do. Like to do a lot because I love it. I visit the schools kindergarden to college universities and the nursing homes and city missions survey should be just given a frequency just you know

20 30 minutes of piano music and give them free and closer to them. Also I go to schools and talk to them what my compass meant to war what I do if in a kindergarten gets bitten careful this little funny audience a guy came up and then talked in the played piano for us. If that's good enough for me and I have to do that all of community service I used to visit between 10 to 20 schools a year. In the area and about two or three nursing homes in all with its any chance I get I want the city missions on the homeless people to play a piano they have a wonderful piano NEARY So I just pointed to a concert with them and that's something I have to do and I think that's what the guests recognize some the same Does that just the way they now want to go instead of finding a whole famous conductor sorted so busy just commitment a few weeks with the orchestra and best of time. Well just fiddle Phil with guest conductor or guest artist and I don't believe that's the orchestra should go. These days I think it's just a

massive Wolf. They hear 30 years and he said that's what the is one the great orchestra to show those people in them because he's always here and he's part of a community and and he's also you know always if you go to a concert he's always there and I think the wonderful thing and I think even great or major will get a message I think they're on the road different direction and it's a first step to define the kind of. Did action actually. She knew I was in Neil because he used to be that that's the way using all money of the credit if you're 40 is Koussevitzky was what 25 years in Boston and stay there he may he got the position he said I'm not going to conduct any other American orchestra I just kind of the boss will see if I knew I was here he created some other time a home Tunku with joy. There was a day over 20 years and he limited engagement of other than friend Fritz and I know the same way as Chicago.

I think that's the I think we should go back to it which is one conductor who committed to the orchestra especially to the community and I'd like to go that direction myself. That's the way I do it is he and I think that's the way I would do in Minnesota. Why am I looking forward to a lot of wonderful things from you Maestro thank you and much and for your time and you for your time. My pleasure any time. And this is also because of those media media is always a great tool to communicate because I have such a limited time. I can be healed only one week and these wonderful things can talking to you soaking through the media they can hear what I am what I am. I think get to know me better. And so the concept they say well I know him. Thank you very much again thank you bye. But.