Ян Лэзэм-Кениг

Jan Latham-Koenig is a British conductor. He was born in England, coming from French, Danish, Polish as well as Mauritian origin. He attended Highgate School and then studied at the Royal College of Music in London before he founded the Koenig Ensemble in 1976 and began his career as a concert conductor with the BBC, in 1981 and winning the coveted Gulbenkian Fellowship. He made a remarkable debut with Macbeth at the Vienna State Opera in 1988 and was appointed its permanent guest conductor in 1991.