![]() He acknowledges that young people have shorter attention spans. "I was lucky to be in class every week to learn" under the conductor and composer Jorma Panula, "a fountain of wisdom", who has launched two generations of Finnish classical talent on the world, said Makela.Įven if the classical music audience is ageing despite innumerable attempts to attract younger fans, Makela is hugely optimistic about its future. Much of this ease Makela puts down to his time in the Sibelius Academy. "You get the feeling that you are being led by a colleague," added solo oboist, Alexandre Gattet. "He can help us create very particular sounds and to go further to bring out the nuances" of a piece, she added. ![]() "Like all great conductors, he does not need to speak, he can transmit everything through a gesture. "Despite his young age, he is impressively mature," said one of the orchestra's violinists, Anne-Sophie le Rol. "Imagine Don Giovanni playing the mandolin at his window," he quipped at one stage, much to the musicians' amusement as they rehearsed Ravel's "Couperin's Tomb". That winning mix of swagger, precision and rigor was clear to everyone who saw Makela rehearse for a concert at the Paris Philharmonie earlier this month.īut so too was his warmth, slipping in little jokes to help the orchestra understand what he was looking for. I think authority does not come from dictating or forcing people to do things, it comes from proving what you do, which is natural authority," he said. Makela - who will stay on at Oslo when he takes up the Paris baton in September 2022 - said he learned early that "leadership is quite a complicated thing".įrom his long apprenticeship, standing week after week "on the podium became this very natural place to be. "My attention was on the conductor" in the middle of everything. "We were in the middle of this amazing machine, for a child it is a great experience," he recalled. While the "drama and great music" of Bizet's opera intoxicated him, it was the conductor which really caught his eye. Indeed, Makela was bitten early by the bug, his eureka moment coming when he made his debut on the stage of the Finnish National Opera at seven as a part of the children's choir for "Carmen". "It became a very natural thing to do," said the latest "Flying Finn" to turn heads in the classical music world. Read also: UK pianist Alexis Ffrench bids to change image of classical music
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