“Each subtle gesture of Kondakçi’s baton seemed to suspend time...
The audience was transfixed.”
About
Kristo Kondakçi is a conductor of unusual intensity and warmth, known for his deeply collaborative style, the depth of sound he draws from his ensembles, and spoken introductions that have made his concerts a meeting place between symphonic tradition and contemporary audiences. As the David and Janet McCue Music Director of the Kendall Square Orchestra, he leads one of the most distinctive American orchestras of his generation, recently praised by the Boston Musical Intelligencer for an "inspired and inspiring" Mahler Sixth.
What’s in Motion Right Now?
K²O concludes its 2025–2026 season with What Endures, featuring Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, and Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 in E minor.
Recent Review of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony by Jeffrey Gantz writing for the Boston Music Intelligencer.(3.15.2026)
Published in the Boston Musical Intelligencer, this essay examines how Mahler’s Sixth Symphony confronts the cost of relentless striving, tracing a journey from heroic ambition to existential fracture, and ultimately asking each listener to reckon with the forces of fate, will, and meaning that shape our own time.