Simone Young

Conductor

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@RevRichardColes @CatJarman @cspencer1508 Absolutely true! Delighted to learn that you are a Wagner fan!

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@APWSinger Happy New Year, Andrew!! Sorry not to be in Madrid with you all! Xx

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@sueperkins Toi toi, Sue, glad to see you’re keeping up the conducting!

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@AusAmb_DE Very sorry to see you go! So grateful for the wonderful reception you gave me after the Berlin Phil concert recently, where it was my great pleasure to meet you, your wife and son, and some of the wonderful people from the Embassy. You will be missed!

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

So, that was 23 hours delay on a flight that takes a bit more than an hour. Delays can happen, but the lack of communication, the slow progression of the delayed departures and the abandonment of the passengers in a closed airport overnight - chaos!

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@British_Airways What is happening? A whole plane load at Lyon, waiting to fly to LHR - and not even the airport staff can reach you!! Already hours delayed….No info. No assistance, no customer service. Not good enough!

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@British_Airways And now another change of departure -and gate - both unannounced. Despairing.

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@British_Airways That’s not a new flight, that is the one from yesterday. It’s departure time has changed about 8 times. Still no airport staff or BA staff anywhere to be seen. A lot of very tired and very angry gold, silver, business, families, etc…

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@British_Airways There is no one to assist. The Avia Partner people, BA’s outsourced partner here, have no more information. The flight has now been pushed back to 16:30. Still no communication, no support!

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@British_Airways And while the flight is listed on the ba app as departing at 14:30, it is not present on the departures board, and there is still no one from BA anywhere………

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@British_Airways Hello. It is not so much the delay as the lack of any communication or information from BA. The email (at 2am, after 7hours of delay) offered a phone number to call that no one answers. The app says to contact the BA rep at the airport - there isn’t one.

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

And now BA, you have just moved the flight to 14:30!! That’s 20 hours delay on a flight that takes 1.5 hours. Still no BA staff here, no assistance, no SMS or email, just an updated departure time on the app. A response please!

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

So now the flight is on the app as departing at 10:am. There is no BA rep here, no-one organising hotels, we are all just left sitting in the airport. Come on, BA!

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@APWSinger @stmatthewsbg Great photo - Greg’s right ear and phone are also part of it! Xx

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

It was such a joy to lead this concert tonight - a beautiful new violin concerto from @Camille_Pepin, played magnificently by @RCapucon and Mahler 1 with the marvellous @nationaldefce! Bravo tutti!

[France Musique @francemusique]

La cheffe australienne @SYoungConductor est à la tête du @nationaldefce pour diriger, en création mondiale le "Concerto pour violon et orchestre" de @Camille_Pepin, avec @RCapucon en soliste. Puis la 1ère Symphonie "Titan" de Gustav Mahler, en 2ème partie.

https://t.co/vU3mNQ3UKC

[Camille Pépin @Camille_Pepin]

Aujourd’hui, répétition avec ces musiciens incroyables ! Quel bonheur, merci à tous ❤️☀️🥰 !!!

@RCapucon @SYoungConductor @nationaldefce @Maisondelaradio @radiofrance @francemusique

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

And what a spectacular cast I had!! @LiseDavidsen, @SamanthaHankey, @morley_erin, @GGboeck, all the other brilliant soloists, @METOrchestra, @MetOperaChorus, @MetOpera, and Robert Carson’s beautiful production, lovingly put together by Paula Suozzi! #ittakesavillage

[@sarebstare @sarebstare]

@SYoungConductor Thank you for conducting #MetHD #DerRosenkavalier #Rosenkavalier today, it was brilliant! 👏👏👏 @MetOpera

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@operamagazine Many thanks! Couldn’t be a better way to spend a birthday - I am rehearsing Rosenkavalier at the Met with a fabulous cast. X

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

@BenSostenuto Happy Birthday, Ben. (I thought you were definitely not yet 40!)

[Simone Young @SYoungConductor]

Very honoured to receive this wonderful award. Thank you Limelight! But I share this award with the marvellous Sydney Symphony, who have made 2022 such an amazing year of joyous, tumultuous, passionate and profound music-making!

[Limelight @LimelightArtsAu]

Australian Artist of the Year – Critics’ Choice: @SYoungConductor