The Dutch conductor, ousted after a six-year spell at the New York Philharmonic, has been named artist in residence with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan.
He is also music director of the Seoul Philharmonic in Korea and, srarting soon, of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
Quite the portfolio maestro.
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