By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
Rising young conductor Tugan Sokhiev will replace Zubin Mehta in the Vienna Philharmonic's concert tonight at Seoul Arts Center, concert organizer Credia announced Monday.
In addition to the Seoul concert, the maestro cancelled, due to ill health, conducting the Austrian ensemble's 2009-2010 opening season concerts Oct. 3 to 4. Sokhiev will take the 73-year-old's place at the Vienna concerts.
The elderly conductor expressed regret about the cancellation, said Credia.
Sokhiev, 33, is music director of the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and his 2009-2010 engagements include debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
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