OSR with new concertmaster
As the trade journal "The Strad" writes, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR) has a new concertmaster in Svetlin Roussev, the former concertmaster of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
Bulgarian Roussev won the first Sendai International Violin Competition in 2001 and is also a professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he himself originally studied. He won the audition held this month under Jonathan Nott, musical director of the OSR.
Roussev has won prizes at the Indianapolis and Long-Thibaud competitions. He was appointed conductor of the Orchestre d'Auvergne in 2000 and concertmaster of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in 2005. From 2007 until this year, he held the same position with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.
