conductor

An interview from the series
“People who impart music

John Axelrod

Usually, music teachers teach their students until they have acquired certain skills. Be it for domestic use or participation in competitions or for a professional career. But there is a group of music teachers who regularly stand in front of already highly skilled instrumentalists or singers: The conductors. Mostly we see only a small part of their work, namely the concert performance. But the preliminary rehearsals take much more time. With it, a conductor teaches the musicians to play the way he imagines. About this work, the International Music School Berlin talked to one of the best conductors of our time: John Axelrod.

John Axelrod calls himself an “Ameropean”. He was born in America, more specifically Texas/USA. But for more than ten years weiter lesen »