Paavo Järvi/City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The elder son of conductor Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi has achieved quite a lot, including appointments leading the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, and NHK Symphony Orchestra, among others. Although a musician of broad interests and a resident of the U.S. for the greater part of his life, he has continued to champion the music of his native Estonia in live performances and on disc. Blessed with directing gifts that transcend mere talent, he is among the handful of his generation's conductors regarded as true successors to the great maestros of the past. A dynam...