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Sakari Oramo has extended his contract as chief conductor<\/a><\/strong> of the BBC Symphony Orchestra until the end of the 2025-26 season. The Finnish maestro is currently in his ninth season as the orchestra\u2019s chief conductor, having taken up the role in 2013, and on\u00a05 October will open his tenth BBC SO season at London\u2019s Barbican with the world premiere of French composer Sophie Lacaze\u2019s Sighs of the Stars<\/i>, alongside works by Rachmaninov and Prokofiev.<\/p>\n During his time at the orchestra\u2019s helm, Oramo has explored a wealth of new and rarely performed works alongside core repertoire, including symphony cycles by Sibelius and Nielsen. He has also led the BBC SO in 27 BBC Proms<\/a><\/strong> concerts, including five Last Nights.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section> \u2018I am very happy and beyond excited to continue in my position as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra until the summer of 2026,\u2019 said Oramo. \u2018On the musical, artistic and human level, I couldn\u2019t imagine any better environment than this musical family consisting of the Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Chorus and the BBC Singers. I hold dear our contribution to public service broadcasting, bringing the highest quality programming and music making to everyone in the UK and widely overseas.<\/p>\n Alongside Oramo, the BBC SO performs regularly with its principal guest conductor\u00a0Dalia Stasevksa<\/a><\/strong>, G\u00fcnter Wand conducting chair\u00a0Semyon Bychkov<\/a><\/strong> and conductor laureate Sir Andrew Davis.<\/p>\n In addition to his BBC SO role, Oramo is chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.<\/p>\n Photo: Benjamin Ealovega<\/em><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Charlotte Smith Published: Friday, 15 April 2022 at 12:00 am Sakari Oramo has extended his contract as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra until the end of the 2025-26 season. The Finnish maestro is currently in his ninth season as the orchestra\u2019s chief conductor, having taken up the role in 2013, and on\u00a05 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":14993,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/04\/sakari-oramo-extends-his-contract-as-bbc-symphony-orchestra-chief-conductor-to-2026.png",1870,1278,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/04\/sakari-oramo-extends-his-contract-as-bbc-symphony-orchestra-chief-conductor-to-2026-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/04\/sakari-oramo-extends-his-contract-as-bbc-symphony-orchestra-chief-conductor-to-2026-300x205.png",300,205,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/04\/sakari-oramo-extends-his-contract-as-bbc-symphony-orchestra-chief-conductor-to-2026-768x525.png",768,525,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/04\/sakari-oramo-extends-his-contract-as-bbc-symphony-orchestra-chief-conductor-to-2026-1024x700.png",800,547,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/04\/sakari-oramo-extends-his-contract-as-bbc-symphony-orchestra-chief-conductor-to-2026-1536x1050.png",1536,1050,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/04\/sakari-oramo-extends-his-contract-as-bbc-symphony-orchestra-chief-conductor-to-2026.png",1870,1278,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Charlotte Smith Published: Friday, 15 April 2022 at 12:00 am Sakari Oramo has extended his contract as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra until the end of the 2025-26 season. The Finnish maestro is currently in his ninth season as the orchestra\u2019s chief conductor, having taken up the role in 2013, and on\u00a05…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/14992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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