On Thursday of the next week, Osmo Vänskä will lead a Sinfonia Lahti concert while seated in a wheelchair. He broke his hip and shoulder as he fell off the ladder and hit the concrete floor.
Osmo Vänskä, the conductor, will lead the Sinfonia Lahti concert on Thursday while seated in a wheelchair while he recovers from a major accident. While visiting a children’s indoor playground in Finland on December 6 with his daughter and granddaughter, Vänskä was involved in an accident.
According to Vänskä, he broke his hip and shoulder when he fell from the ladder and hit the concrete floor. At the Töölö hospital in Helsinki, Vänskä underwent surgery.
“The physicians predict that the recuperation will take six months after the ten-hour surgery. Even though I don’t even have the theoretical ability to stand, I try to lead with just my hand and never with my upper arm “Vänskä spoke to STT.
After the Lahti concert, Vänskä will depart for Reykjavik, where the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra concert is scheduled for the following week. Vänskä claims that the accident forced him to postpone a number of job commitments.
Vänskä, 69, started his thriving worldwide career while leading Sinfonia Lahti from 1988 until 2008.
Next week, Vänskä will conduct the self-composed overture, Kurt Weill’s violin concerto, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s third symphony during Sinfonia Lahti’s Return event. Erin Keefe, the violin soloist, is Vänskä’s wife.