Zeffman, who began playing the violin aged three before pivoting to conducting at 16 (“because I wanted to be at the front, half joking,” he quips), learnt his craft by setting up a makeshift orchestra of school friends, performing at churches in Highgate, before studying History and Russian at Durham, and relocating to St Petersburg for a year, where he studied at the St Petersburg Conservatory, which is renowned for its conducting school.
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