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Immerse Festival: NZSO’s next Music Director reveals his strengths
André de Ridder conducted the NZSO in its Immerse Festival concerts, including Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Papatūānuku by Salina Fisher and Jerome Kavanagh Poutama.
NZSO and conductor André de Ridder: total immersion
The NZSO’s three-concert Immerse Festival offered three very different concerts under the baton of boundary-crossing conductor André de Ridder.