Berlin-based conductor Nodoka Okisawa is the Grand Prix de Direction winner of the 2019 International Competition for Young Conductors, held within the Besançon International Music Festival. The Japan native also won awards for audience favorite and orchestra favorite.
In the Medici.tv video above, she leads the orchestra through Richard Strauss‘ Death and Transfiguration (Tod und Verklärung), Op. 24 at Théâtre Ledoux in Besançon, France.
Related listening with acclaimed conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Classics for Kids podcast: What’s It Like to Be a Conductor?
Watch these orchestra videos next: Maurice Steger performs recorder concertos by Vivaldi, Le Carnaval des Animaux by Camille Saint-Saëns, pop-up orchestra on a delayed plane, and Beethoven’s Ode to Joy (a sort of flashmob).
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