Mikko Franck is a Finnish conductor, born in Helsinki. Mikko Franck is a gifted young conductor with talent that critics have compared to that of Simon Rattle and Esa-Pekka Salonen in the generation before him. Franck began to play the violin at the age of 5 and by age 7 he reportedly preferred orchestral scores to all other reading matter. His first favorite score was Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. Wikipedia
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The story of Franck’s rise is little short of incredible. He began to play the violin at an early age, and at the age of seven he preferred orchestral scores to all other reading matter. His first score was Tchaikovsky’s Sixth (Pathétique) Symphony, whi virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID...
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Mikko Franck, at 25, has just been named music director of Finnish National Opera, a promotion which outranks Rattles arrival at the same callow age in Birmingham in 1980. www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/040527-NL-Franck.html
