Rafael Payare was today announced the new Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal starting from the 2022-23 season, taking over from Kent Nagano.

This season, Payare is teh OSM’s artist-in-residence, leading the Orchestra in three webcast concerts. The first concert – featuring music by Berlioz and Brahms – live-streamed on Sunday 10 January at 2.30pm local time/7.30pm GMT will be available for free via the OSM’s website and medici.tv.