Five finalists named to succeed Eckart Preu

From 188, there are now five.

The Spokane Symphony’s search committee last week announced the names of the five finalists to replace Eckart Preu as the symphony’s music director in 2019. A four-month search yielded 188 candidates from around the world. The 12-member committee narrowed the field to five.

There are four men and one woman. Two are Europeans, two are Japanese, one is from Western Washington. And one, Morihiko Nakahara, is a familiar face to Spokane audiences.

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