Simone Young
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Opera Australia website |
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"It's an odd job being a conductor, because there are lots of different ways of getting there. There's not a defined career path. So I'm often quite flummoxed when a young musician comes to me and says, 'I really want to be a conductor, what should I do? Where should I study?' and I usually tell them to go away and study literature and languages and philosophy and become very good at their chosen instrument, listen to everything, see everything they can, and if they still want to be a conductor in a few years, then go for it. Because three-quarters of being a conductor is what's going on in your head, and the rest of communication, through your hands, through your face, through words, though really more through gesture and expression. And it's what's going on in the conductor's head that's much more interesting, because a conductor's mind has to work on lots and lots of different levels, and what's happening in performance is different to what's happening in rehearsal." - Simone Young |
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