Sometimes you chat with someone and very quickly realise that it is going to be a very interesting conversation!

Kerem Hasan is a conductor who is really going places and it is not hard to see why. We discussed our mental attitudes towards conducting, I found out that he was taught in a very unusual way whilst studying in Weimar, and I get to tell a story about a famous conductor conducting a motorbike!

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This interview was recorded on 17th September 2020 via Zoom.