Sydney Symphony Orchestra chief conductor Simone Young has long had a passion for monumental works.
It’s no secret that Sydney Symphony Orchestra chief conductor Simone Young has long had a particular passion for monumental works in the repertoire – the bigger, the better.
“I’ve never actually heard the work live in a hall,” says Young. “I know it only from recordings and the score. It is such a huge work and so extravagant in its forces you have to have a really good reason to do it – and Schoenberg’s anniversary provides us with a good reason. It feels like a once-in-a-lifetime event.”
“We’re just having a great time,” she says. “Sydney audiences are supporting us, and I’m very happy with the orchestra. They seem to be very happy with me, and Sydney loves us, so why not? “Of course, the magic thing that we’re always looking for is how do we get people to make that first step? You want to turn single ticket buyers into subscribers, you want to turn subscribers into patrons, and you want to turn people who’ve never been to the symphony into those single ticket buyers who come for the first time. So, of course, we try to do a range of repertoire that is also going to appeal to first-timers as well as to people who’ve been faithful to the orchestra for 50 years.
Despite having achieved success at the highest level in such a notoriously misogynistic field, and once being told the best she could hope for would be to become a great assistant conductor, Young prefers not to dwell overly on issues of gender., she says: “What does being a woman have to do with conducting? My tits don’t get in the way.
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