Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KlausM%C3%A4kel%C3%A4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KlausMäkelä</span></a>, who will become <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> dir designate immediately, said in an interview that he did not think his age was relevant, noting that he had been conducting for >½ his life, beginning at 12.</p><p>“I don’t think about it. Music doesn’t really have any age,” he said.</p><p>Mäkelä, who will also take over as chief <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conductor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conductor</span></a> of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RoyalConcertgebouwOrchestra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoyalConcertgebouwOrchestra</span></a> in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Amsterdam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amsterdam</span></a> in 2027, said he was joining the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chicago</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Symphony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Symphony</span></a> bc it has “that intensity — that same sound from the past.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CSO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CSO</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a></p>