![]() After deciding he wanted to be a musician - inspired in part by the late Leonard Bernstein - Jarvi went at it with gusto. His father, the Estonian conductor Neeme Jarvi, moved his family to the United States when Jarvi was seven. The 42-year-old Jarvi has been breaking down “concrete barriers” between the audience and classical music pretty much since he became a conductor, starting off as an assistant to Esa-Pekka Salonen at the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1998. “The more you discover, and the more you create, the more you realize that there are so many infinite possibilities, I mean that really are infinite - there is no such thing as concrete,” Jarvi said. That’s when he brings on a saxophonist to play Handel, or a Balkan trio to jam along with his MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, where the Estonian-born Jarvi is music director. Estonian-born conductor Kristjan Jarvi poses for a photograph during an interview with Reuters in London, June 10, 2014. ![]()
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