A Young Conductor Who Loves Very Old Music

For Pablo Heras-Casado, principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, “early music represents the core of the repertory, with contemporary music a close second. Trained as a conductor of Renaissance choral music and soon steeped in the cerebral avant-garde, Mr. Heras-Casado, who is 34 and Spanish, arrived at Beethoven and Brahms only in recent years.”