She's breaking 90 years of silence—one baton swing at a time.
Simone Young AM has earned many accolades across her dazzling 30-year music career. All have been hard won. Knowing the Score gets up-close and personal with Simone in an engaging, luscious music documentary revealing two key themes; the long struggle for gender parity in the high art of classical music and the heart breaking struggle for artists to be valued in times of crisis, or sometimes even at all. Though one of the world’s great contemporary conductors, Simone’s work continues to be viewed through a gender lens. Simone is the first woman to be appointed Chief Conductor of The Sydney Symphony Orchestra in all its 90-year history, a post she takes up in 2022.
Direction
Hosking captures Simone's magnetism without flattening her complexity.
Sound
The score IS the subject—every crescendo hits different.
Director
Janine Hosking
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
In 2023, women still conduct only 5% of major orchestra performances worldwide—Simone's appointment was headline news for a reason.
Simone Young once conducted Wagner's entire Ring Cycle—16 hours of opera—while managing a broken foot. The documentary doesn't even lead with this.
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