{"id":13446,"date":"2026-08-18T12:47:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/?p=13446"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:47:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T10:47:32","slug":"schicksalslied-und-lobgesang-finan-jones-to-conduct-the-constellation-choir-orchestra-on-28-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/schicksalslied-und-lobgesang-finan-jones-to-conduct-the-constellation-choir-orchestra-on-28-august\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bbSchicksalslied und Lobgesang\u00ab: Finan Jones to conduct The Constellation Choir &#038; Orchestra on 28 August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The young British conductor will take the place of Sir John Eliot Gardiner<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>Due to his extremely demanding tour schedule \u2013 comprising seven concerts in five countries within two weeks \u2013 Sir John Eliot Gardiner has asked the Musikfest Bremen to release him from his engagement on 28 August. The young British conductor Finan Jones, Gardiner\u2019s assistant, will take over the baton for the scheduled programme (Johannes Brahms\u2019 \u201eSchicksalslied\u201c and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy\u2019s Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, \u201eLobgesang\u201c). Tickets already purchased remain valid.<\/p>\r\n<p>Artistic Director Professor Thomas Albert commented: \u201e I am pleased with this solution, as it ensures that one of the programmes that I consider to be most beautiful from a dramaturgical perspective at this year\u2019s Musikfest \u2013 featuring the Constellation Choir &amp; Orchestra in their Bremen debut \u2013 can be enjoyed by many eager listeners.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>In addition to his training with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Finan Jones has served as assistant to other renowned conductors such as Vasily Petrenko, St\u00e9phane Den\u00e8ve and Aziz Shokhakimov As well as conducting the Constellation Choir &amp; Orchestra, he has also worked with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the string ensemble of the London Symphony Orchestra, among others. Since the start of the 2024 season, he has been assistant conductor with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, working closely with principal conductor Nathalie Stutzmann.<\/p>\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<!-- \/wp:post-content -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:paragraph {\"translatedWithWPMLTM\":\"1\"} -->\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young British conductor will take the place of Sir John Eliot Gardiner Due to his extremely demanding tour schedule \u2013 comprising seven concerts in five<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13455,"href":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13446\/revisions\/13455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musikfest-bremen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}