1.   A few months later, they called to see whether I would be interested to be the new chief conductor.

2.   Davies is the music director of the American Composers Orchestra as well as chief conductor of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra.

3.   Friday night is the debut of the American Leonard Slatkin as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

4.   In his spare time, he is the chief conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra.

5.   It is significant that his title there is chief conductor, not music director.

6.   New York-born, Curtis and Juilliard-trained, Gilbert recently assumed a position as chief conductor and artistic adviser to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in Sweden.

7.   Rather, he is going to Australia to become chief conductor and artistic director of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

8.   Riccardo Chailly, the chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, led the Eighth Symphony in Amsterdam last May.

9.   Vanska, who is also chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony, makes music that is fierce and unashamedly big.

10.   After his return, he served as chief conductor of the Bern Symphony Orchestra for seven years.