Otto Tausk appointed to Vancouver
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has appointed Otto Tausk, who is also Principal Conductor of the St.Gallen Symphony Orchestra and Theater St.Gallen, as its new Music Director. He will initially be with the orchestra for four years from the 2018/19 season.
Tausk succeeds Bramwell Tovey in this position. He will also serve as Artistic Advisor to the Vancouver Symphony School of Music and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestral Institute at Whistler.
Tausk studied violin and conducting in the Netherlands and Lithuania. The Dutchman has been chief conductor of the St.Gallen Symphony Orchestra and Theater since the 2012/2013 season. From 2004 to 2006, he was assistant to Valery Gergiev at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Otto Tausk made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 2011 and with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in 2012.
Founded in 1919, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is the third largest orchestra in Canada, with an annual operating budget of 11.2 million Canadian dollars.
