New York Philharmonic's outgoing director Jaap van Zweden will lead a French radio orchestra

FILE - Jaap van Zweden conducts the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Dallas on Sept. 29, 2011. Van Zweden, outgoing New York Philharmonic music director, will assume the same role with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France starting with the 2026-27 season. (Mark M. Hancock/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File)

By The Associated Press undefined

Outgoing New York Philharmonic music director Jaap van Zweden will assume the same role with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France starting with the 2026-27 season.

The French orchestra said Tuesday that van Zweden will work with the orchestra for four weeks during the 2025-26 season, when he will be music director designate.

He will succeed Mikko Franck, who has been music director since 2015-16.

The 63-year-old van Zweden began in New York in September 2018 and his six-season tenure that ends this season is the shortest since Pierre Boulez succeeded Leonard Bernstein and led the orchestra from 1971-77.

Van Zweden has been music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra since 2012-13 and also is leaving at the end of this season. He started last month as music director of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra.