First of four director candidates conducts Illinois Symphony in fiery season opener
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Taichi Fukumura is the first of four candidates visiting Bloomington-Normal for a head-to-head (to-head-to-head) battle for the top job at the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. The departure of Ken Lam after five seasons was followed by a year of guest conductors as the search committee and orchestra musicians narrowed a pool of 55 invited applicants to four: Fukumura, Yaniv Dinur, Tania Miller and Naomi Woo.
Fukumura leads the ISO in a season opener titled “Fire & Fanfare” on Saturday at the Center for Performing Arts on Illinois State University’s campus.
Check full story by Lauren Warnecke with WGLT here!
