Conductor Jan Latham-Koenig has had an unusually varied career, encompassing permanent posts and numerous guest appearances across Europe, the U.S., and Mexico. He is one of the few British conductors to have scored major successes in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Latham-Koenig was born in London on December 15, 1953. He studied at the Royal College of Music with Norman del Mar, Kendall Taylor, and Lamar Crowson. He founded the Koenig Ensemble in 1976, and in the early 1980s, he studied further under a Gulbenkian Fellowship. Early in his career, he was also active as a concert p...