{"id":11432,"date":"2013-06-03T13:33:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=11432"},"modified":"2018-02-18T05:24:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T09:24:29","slug":"jansons-extends-at-br","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musicalamerica.com\/mablogs\/?p=11432","title":{"rendered":"Jansons Extends at BR"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mariss<\/p>\n

By ANDREW POWELL
\nPublished: June 3, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n

MUNICH \u2014 Mariss Jansons<\/a> has signed an extension of his contract as Chefdirigent<\/i> of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and its choral forces, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) announced today here. The added period runs from Sept. 2015 through Aug. 2018.<\/p>\n

The Riga, Latvia-born conductor, 70, also serves as chief conductor of Amsterdam\u2019s Concertgebouw Orchestra. His tenure in Munich, a collegial one, began in 2003.<\/p>\n

Separately, at a ceremony in the Prinz-Regenten-Theater tomorrow (June 4), Jansons receives the 2013 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize<\/em>. He has promised to donate<\/a> its \u20ac250,000 bounty toward the design and building of a (much needed) new concert hall for Munich should the project actually happen<\/i>.<\/p>\n

BR additionally announced the promotion of one of the orchestra’s artistic planners, Nikolaus Pont, 41, to the position of Orchestermanager<\/em>. Born in Vienna, Pont earlier worked for the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Austrian broadcaster ORF.<\/p>\n

Photo \u00a9 Matthias Schrader<\/p>\n

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