The challenges of multiple long-distance flights to Australia each year have begun to weary Sir Andrew Davis CBE, the Chief Conductor of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (MSO).
‘I’ve just completed seven years as Chief Conductor and quite frankly, I’m ashamed to say, the main reason that I decided not to carry on longer was simply the fact that I’m now 75 and I’m finding the travel and the jet lag three times a year more and more of a strain,’ he confessed.
