The Bernard Haitink Conducting Fellowship, founded by Patricia Haitink, has placed a young American on a two-year internship with Sir Simon Rattle at Munich’s BRSO.
Sasha Scolnik-Brower, 29, was previously a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival.
Rattle himself assisted Haitink fifty years ago at the Glyndebourne Festival.
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