Conductor Osomo Vanska is set to take over the Chicago Symphony Orchestra replacing conductor Bernard Haitink in performances slated for Friday, Oct. 18, Friday, Oct. 19 and Saturday Oct. 20.
The news comes as Haitink has been forced to cancel his first week of scheduled appearances with the CSO this season. However the all-Brahms program remains unchanged at the Symphony Center.
Riccardo Muti will give way to Vanska on these nights so he can perform the works Brahms. Joining Vanska and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and French brothers, cellist Gautier Capucon and violinist Renaud Capucon.
Finnish conductor Osmo Vanska will lead the duo and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through the works of Johannes Brahms preferably his "Double Concerto" and "Symphony No.1."
Vanksa started his conducting career as the principal conductor for the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in 1985 a post he held since 2008 in his native Finland.
He became chief conductor for the Iceland Symphony Orchestra in 1993 to 1996 and in the same year of 1996 he was given the role of chief conductor again by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra until 2002. Now the Fin is currently the conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra a role he was awarded in 2003.
The Capucon brothers, Gautier and Renaud hail from Chambery, Savoie, France with Gautier the cellist being the younger of the two.
Gautier began his studies in cello at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Chambery before studying in Paris and Vienna.
Renaud Capucon studied violin in Paris at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris and has played alongside the likes of the Philadelphia Orchestra and well known conductor Russian Semyon Bychkov.
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