Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig rehearses Gustav Mahler’s eighth symphony, aka “The Thousand,” with Strasbourg Philharmony Orchestra, the refrain of Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra, the Nice Refrain of Nationwide Conservatory of the Strasbourg area, the Refrain of Saint-Guillaume in Strasbourg, and the Boys Choir Faculty of Colmar, 14 Might 2002, on the stage of the Rhénus corridor in Strasbourg, japanese France, previous to their distinctive present. Latham-Koenig was handed a suspended jail sentence on Tuesday, Might 28, 2024, after pleading responsible to little one intercourse offenses. THOMAS WIRTH / AFP
LONDON — British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig was handed a suspended jail sentence on Tuesday, Might 28, after pleading responsible to little one intercourse offenses.
The classical music conductor had admitted to messaging somebody he believed to be a 14-year-old boy.
Choose Alexander Milne instructed the 70-year-old he had been “humiliated within the public eye”, sentencing him to 14 months in jail, a sentence that was suspended for 2 years.
He described Latham-Koenig’s actions as “deeply worrying habits” throughout the sentencing at London’s Southwark Crown Court docket.
Latham-Koenig was the primary British-born conductor to change into creative director of a Russian opera firm, and was honored by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 with an award for companies to music and UK-Russia cultural relations.
In a protracted profession, he has performed the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and all of the BBC ensembles.
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He was charged with three little one sex-offense prices after being arrested in January this 12 months.
Latham-Koenig used a relationship app to “strike up conversations with an individual whom he believed was Jacob, a 14-year-old boy,” the courtroom heard.
In actual fact, the individual was an undercover police officer.
Their conversations turned sexual and Latham-Koenig gave him a prepare ticket to Victoria station in London so they might meet. As an alternative, the conductor was arrested on the station.
Throughout his time on the Novaya Opera in Moscow, Latham-Koenig staged town’s premiere of Richard Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde,” one of many cornerstones of Western classical music.
The Novaya Opera was based by former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov to be an opera for the individuals, cheaper and extra accessible than the better-known Bolshoi.
Its founding director Yevgeny Kolobov was universally admired however the home floundered after his loss of life in 2003, rediscovering its momentum underneath Latham-Koenig’s management.
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