Marcelo Lehninger
The Grand Rapids Symphony (Michigan, US) announced that it has renewed Marcelo Lehninger’s five-year contract as Music Director, due to expire at the end of the 2020-21 season, for an additional five years through the 2025-26 season.
The Brazilian conductor Marcelo Lehninger, 40, served as music director of the New West Symphony in Los Angeles from 2011 to 2016. In 2010, Lehninger was appointed assistant conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra by James Levine, who was music director at the time. In 2013 he became associate conductor, a position he held with the BSO for two seasons until 2015.
