In late August my Bar Harbor friend, Dr. Bill Horner, flew to Lahti, Finland to attend the Sibelius Festival. Bill has become quite a Sibeliophile listening to the composer’s symphonies, tone poems and reading his biography. Bill shared the diary of his trip that included his review of the three Sibelius concerts he attended. Through his writing I learned of conductor Dalia Stasevska. Bill admits to not having the credentials of a music critic, yet, his review of Maestra Stasevska is quite accurate, I am sure; “her conducting style spot on: her baton arm marked a tempo that even I could follow, and her left made long sweeping motions that imparted her evident passion to both her orchestra and to me.” Another woman conductor has crossed my radar screen and one whose career is worth researching and writing about on my blog! Dalia Stasevska was born Kyiv, Ukraine in 1984. Her family moved to Finland when she was five. Her music training began on the...
