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BBC hires American principal guest

BBC hires American principal guest

Edwin Outwater, music director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in Canada from 2007 to 2017, has been named Principal Guest Conductor and curator of the BBC Concert Orchestra.

The chief conductor is Anna Maria Helsing,

Not sure what the curator bit is about.

Outwater, 53, conducted last year’s sold-out Northern Soul Prom.

In other guest news, the Italian-Turkish Nil Venditti has clocked in as Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

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