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As with all conducting arts stories, there is no single path leading to the center of the maze. I have already said above that a conductor can be a performer who started in one of the sections of the orchestra and rose to the role of a leader, such as violinists Bernard Haitink, who was for many years the main conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Alan Gilbert, artistic director of the New York Philharmonic (in 2009-2017). Nikolaus Arnoncourt moved from the Vienna Symphony cello group to the position of head of the Concentus Musicus Wien - an orchestra that performs classical and early music on copies of instruments of the corresponding era.