Winning the Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival 2017 was Kerem Hasan’s springboard to an international career. Born in London in 1992, Hasan balances his worldwide engagements with his job as chief conductor of the Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck. For his debut with the Tonkunstler Orchestra he’s chosen concertante cello joys from Joseph Haydn and Richard Strauss as well as Ludwig van Beethoven’s dramatic third «Leonore» overture. And he makes a case for the composer of the «Threepenny Opera» as a symphonist: in Kurt Weill’s Second of 1934 with its dancing, ironic, restless music, the «City Lights» glitter.