A conductor holding up its baton
© AFP/FilePARIS (AFP) - "The 10 years spent with the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris were among the happiest and most motivating of my entire life," the 65-year-old said in a statement in French.
Nelson joined the "Mannheim"-style orchestra of 43 musicians, midway between a symphony and a chamber orchestra, in 1998.
Born in Costa Rica, he is a versatile and accomplished conductor who began at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1973 but also conducts church music at the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris.
Known for his own homage to Berlioz, he and the EOP recently became the first Paris orchestra in several decades to record all the Beethoven symphonies.
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