3: Karen Ní Bhroin with Toby Purser

This week on And Other Duties, Karen speaks to Toby Purser, one of her first conducting teachers! Recognised as a world leader in the conducting community, at the beginning of the pandemic, he launched Conductors in Isolation, an online forum which now has over 1600 members worldwide. Now head of conducting at London’s Royal College of Music, Toby talks about winning an assistant job at 38 and how age really doesn’t matter, we are all on our own journey!