Jurjen Hempel
Conductor
Music Director: Joensuu City Orchestra
Music Director Designate: Opéra de Toulon
Music Director: Youth Orchestra of the Netherlands
FROM THE PRESS..
The musicians from the Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam, brilliantly conducted by Jurjen Hempel (New York Times/Anthony Tommasini)
The Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam under the sensational analytical and ambitious Jurjen Hempel offered the highest levels in precision and clearness. (Süddeutsche Zeitung/Wolfgang Schreiber)
Throughout the evening the music-making was excellent, with conductor Jurjen Hempel coaxing silky string playing from Britten Sinfonia in Appolon Musagète and sterling work all around in Les Noces (Daily Telegraph/Mark Monahan)
Seldomly do you hear the outer movements of Mahler Fourth Symphony so sensitive and weightless. (Luister/Anthony Fiumara)
What an elegance, orchestral sound and spontaneity comes from this recording of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. (Leeuwarder Courant/R.N)
Every time the curtain raises conductor Jurjen Hempel receives more applause. The audience highly appreciates his almost choreographic engagement, his lively baton, his sense of breaths, silences and tempi (Olyrix/Florence Lethurgez)
