San Diego’s new music director?
The San Diego Symphony isn’t commenting, but word is that the orchestra has named Jahja Ling, a 51-year-old Indonesian-born conductor, as its next music director.
“We don’t have anything to announce at this time,” symphony spokesman Stephen Kougias said Tuesday, declining to speculate when an announcement might come. Would he deny the rumors? “No comment.”
Kougias was responding to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune that in careful terms reported Ling’s imminent hire.
The speculation comes after Ling’s January guest performances with the orchestra, in which he led Mahler’s Fifth Symphony to generally excellent reviews. Ling is music director of Cleveland Orchestra’s Blossom Music Festival.
He is conductor laureate of the Florida Orchestra and a former resident conductor with the Cleveland Orchestra.
The San Diego Symphony has been searching for a music director since Jung-Ho Pak resigned in March 2001.
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