'What is important is the impact and is not what I've done. What matters is what I leave.' After 14 years at the helm of the Utah Symphony, Maestro Thierry Fischer has conducted his final concert.
Fischer chose Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 — a dynamic and majestic piece — for his final concerts as music director of the Utah Symphony. It was a tribute to the orchestra's founder, Maurice Abravanel, who recorded all of Mahler's works with the orchestra.
"And then the sixth movement is an immense, slow movement because to symbolize what we all were aiming for, or have been aiming or want, everything is open, about peace, inner serenity, love in all aspects, love of the environment, of the people, of ourselves … which is an inspiration forever.
"The orchestra really belongs to the people who live here. So it developed in me, this extremely fascinating approach, to motivate the people who were interested to support our vision in a way that they can feel, and more than feel, but yet being part of what we decided to achieve altogether," Fischer said. "And that was really fascinating for me because I discovered extremely interesting people.
Fischer and his musicians toured Utah, performing concerts under the stars in the southern part of the state. He and his wife and children have a home base in Switzerland, but he says they fell in love with Utah.–Maestro Thierry Fischer, Utah Symphony Returning with the orchestra to Carnegie Hall in 2016 for the first time in 40 years to a triumphant standing ovation. And now, Fischer is leaving Utah.
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