Moving on From Alex Ross

Klaus Mäkelä’s path has been golden. Just turned 27, the Finnish conducting phenom has already been appointed music director of the Orchestre de Paris and chief conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic. Last year, he released a full Sibelius symphony box set for Decca Records. The worldwide press has reacted to his guest performances with nearly lockstep rhapsodic abandon. In one of myriad examples, when Mäkelä debuted at the Chicago Symphony last year, the Chicago Classical Review called the concert “a riveting performance of kaleidoscopic brilliance and whipcrack energy.”