For the sixth episode of «Tram for Two», Paavo Järvi has invited Latvian Margarita Balanas, who will be Assistant Conductor at the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in the 2023/24 season.
Why does a successful cellist want to become a conductor? Paavo Järvi asks the question, Margarita Balanas provides the answer. Apart from that, they soon get to family topics: Both have brothers who are also musicians, but who have very different artistic tastes. And music plays a central role in both families - and not only classical music. Margarita Balanas then asks another basic question: What criteria does Paavo Järvi use to select his assistant conductors? And why are they mostly women?