Ingo Metzmacher

German conductor, born 10 November 1957 in Hanover, Germany. He has made his name in contemporary music with groups like Ensemble Modern, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera. Metzmacher has dedicated himself to mainly performing the music of Twentieth Century composers, he has curated and produced the series "Who is afraid of 20th Century Music?" for Sony Classical and also written a book about this topic.