How a childhood dream became a reality for this American musical director

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra introduces Heyward as the symphony's 13th music director on July 21, 2022. Photo: Kenneth K. Lam/The Baltimore Sun/TNS

In the June 2010 issue of Applause, his high school magazine, senior Jonathon Heyward wrote that by 2020 his “huge overall dream is to become music director of a major symphony orchestra”.

“Well,” Heyward, said earlier this year, while visiting the Charleston County School of the Arts, “I was three years late. But here we are.”