- He was born in Toronto, Canada; his parents came from Trinidad and Tobago and were studying there. He spent most of his childhood in Trinidad. He decided to become a musician after seeing (and hearing) Star Wars when it first came out in theaters. His parents took him to a concert by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and he was fascinated watching the conductor.
He attended Cambridge, studied with Britain's National Youth Orchestra, and worked with conductor Mark Elder and composer/conductor Peter Eötvös. He started out conducting contemporary music, often with the Ensemble Modern, before becoming general music director of the Freiburg Opera and Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany.
- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous
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