MONTREAL Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare has been chosen to become musical director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) as of the 2022-2023 season. Pending the formal start of his five-year contract, Payare will act as the designated music director starting next September, replacing Kent Nagano, who held the position for 14 years, from 2006 to 2020. Payare, 40, graduated from the famous musical education program El Sistema , founded by conductor Jose Antonio Abreu, with whom the trained horn player began his studies in conducting in 2004. The young conductor later won the international Malko competition in Denmark in 2012. He then became musical director of the Ulster Orchestra from 2014 to 2019; he has since been the Music Director of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra.
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