Ask a musician who the greatest conductor currently working the international scene is, and it’s likely that the name you’ll hear will be Mariss Jansons. The 62-year-old Latvian has risen to the top of his profession in the last decade, and has done so without any of the maestro’s traditional pomp and showboating. For Jansons, music is all about the emotional connection, and he goes to great lengths to instill this idea in the musicians he conducts. “My philosophy is that I can conduct if I have a relationship with a piece. If I don’t, what’s the point?”