Austrian conductor and violinist Thomas Zehetmair, recently appointed principal conductor and artistic partner of the Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO), is about to make his formal debut in his new role in Dublin and Limerick. He conducts two of Mozart’s greatest symphonies, No 38 (the Prague) and No 40 in G minor, and is also the soloist in German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s 1939 Concerto funèbre. Zehetmair is one of those musicians who seems to have been destined for the violin. His parents were both violinists, members of the Camerata Salzburg in the 1950s. His father, Helmut, was a notable music...