TRIO Series: The Conductor

Music celebrates specific moments or seasons in life. Music is about creating unforgettable moments. Music is hard work, but always a celebration. The beauty of the performance communicates with the audience. The orchestra plays for the audience and creates something special they won’t forget. — Jun Markl 

For Jun Märkl guest conducting means becoming part of a new team and seeing what he might contribute to building an orchestra. He likes exploring the different approaches each orchestra takes, accepting sugesstions and trying new repertoires. He enjoys working with the Utah Symphony and only wishes he had more time to explore the beauty of the state.

For Maestro Märkl, making music is always a celebration.“Music celebrates specific moments or seasons in life. Music is about creating unforgettable moments. Music is hard workbut always a celebration. The beauty of the performance communicates with the audience. The orchestra plays for the audience and creates something special they won’t forget,” he described in a phone interview. “Music touches your heart in a profound, deep way that doesn’t happen anywhere else in life. Music is a reason to live. It builds a sense of beauty, a sense of value, a sense of life. It is being alive and being able to experience different levels of pure beauty.”

Maestro Märkl notes that his role as a conductor is to use music to communicate on an emotional level with the audience. “Celebration is the excitement of seeing something created live on stage and is a close reflection of what a composer experiences in his life. As conductors we uncover the intent and message of the composers and convey that to the audience. We speak with music and tell a story.”

By Connie Lewis

Stay tuned for our next TRIO series article on the world renowned flutist, Emmanuel Pahud.