Beth Levin

Christoph Schlüren is a unique and masterful musician who can articulate the essence of the music at hand to an orchestra or to a student with great clarity and a sense of vision. As a conductor he is very lean and never wasteful of motion but at the same time can evoke great emotion from the orchestra. I had the honor to coach with him and to play a concerto under his musical direction and found it enlightening and freeing. He is one of those rare blends of the disciplined and the romantic,  the objective and the courageous, the result always fresh and a discovery for all involved.