It has just been announced that Benedikt Fohr, Chief Executive of the HK Phil since April 2019, will leave next July.
Fohr, 60, was previously head of the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern.
He recently signed the young Finn Tarmo Peltokoski as HK’s next music director, starting mid-2026.
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