Australian conductor Leonard Weiss will make history this week when he becomes the first Australian to conduct a subscription concert with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, appearing at Symphony Hall Boston as part of the orchestra’s main season.

Weiss will take the podium on 3 April, leading the opening movement, Vyšehrad, from Bedřich Smetana’s symphonic cycle Má vlast. The performance forms part of a shared program in which fellow emerging conductor Yiran Zhao will conduct the better-known second movement, Vltava (The Moldau).

The appearance follows Weiss’s participation in the prestigious Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Fellowship last summer, a program closely affiliated with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As part of an ongoing mentorship initiative, selected fellows are invited back to conduct the orchestra in subscription concerts.

Leonard Weiss. Photo © Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

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