The English conductor came from a family of academics. When she graduated from Oxford and said she was going to make a career as a conductor, both parents were horrified.
She describes their reaction to Zsolt Bognar in the latest episode of Living the Classical Life. She now admits: ‘Yes, it was lonely out there.’
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