Jasper Parrott is the co-founder of the Harrison Parrott artistic agency, a world reference in classical music, which represents conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy or Paavo Järvi… But also the young shoots of the baguette like Klaus Mäkelä, Aziz Shokhakimov or Stephanie Childress.
LE FIGARO.
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Jasper PARROTT.
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There have always been chefs who started their career very young.
And this long before Gustavo Dudamel.
We can cite Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel.
But also, long before, Willem Mengelberg, who had taken the lead of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam at only 24 years old, and remained there for more than fifty years!
Not to mention composers such as Schubert or Saint-Saëns, who came to the baton very early on.
There is no more linearity in the artistic life of conductors today than yesterday.
On the contrary: the multiplication of artistic, social and family factors that come into play in a career makes…
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