The last of this season’s Speaking Soundly features the music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Jonathon Heyward is 31 and he has also taken on the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center.
As a former assistant conductor of the Halle Orchestra, he speaks with traces of a distinctive Manchester accent.
Listen here.
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