Who is your favorite current conductor?

As regular contributors to this section will know, I'm not fond of naming 'favourites'. As far as conductors go, I admire many, past and present, but NONE is equally good at all music. This is why one 'favourite' is meaningless to me unless one likes a very narrow range of music, which I don't.

Dudamel has captured the imagination in the last two years or so since his meteoric rise to fame conducting the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. He seems to be doing very well in Gothenburg and Los Angeles, but he is very young (not quite yet 30 until later this month) and time will have to tell whether or not he has the maturity and staying power to be another Simon Rattle.

So, my favourite? I'm afraid I will only be able to give lists of some of those I admire for different reasons and in different repertoire:

No longer living:

Vernon Handley

Rudolf Kempe

Kirill Kondrashin

Pierre Monteux

Yevgeni Svetlanov

Günter Wand

Living:

Claudio Abbado

Marin Alsop

Rumon Gamba

Keith Lockart

Gianandrea Noseda

Osmo Vänskä

Johannes Wildner

Jaap van Zweden

Hmmm a brain teaser.

For "convenience", Michael Tilson Thomas plies his craft in relative close proximity. Though I don't think he's it.

Peter Jaffe (Stockton Symphony) gets high marks in literature, but I've never seen him live.

I've always had a great deal of respect for James Levine -- though he's passed the baton, so that might won't be "current."

Mariss Jansons (concertgebouworkest) has a lot of fine music. At 68 (happy belated birthday) he's no spring chicken, though.

Dare I put Keith Lockhart in the list? Conductor of the Boston Pops ... but he has a fine resume and a serious classical background as well.

... Yeah, I'm an old fogey, no real young blood on my list. (Sorry)

A young bloke called Yannick Nezet-Seguin has the world at his feet now. I've heard him twice in big stuff in Sydney. His Bruckner 8th was pushed to an hour and a half, but for the first time I wanted to hear it again. Well, almost. He also did Mahler no. 6, which had me offering him my step-daughter if he'd stay. But as I say, a young guy with his evident talent will find better offerings in Europe and North America.

EDIT: Yeah, that sounded good, didn't it? I mean, better musical challenges and financial rewards, not better offerings than my step-daughter. OK, I'd better stop digging now.

Living: Esa-Pekka Salonen

Not: Herbert von Karajan

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darn someone beat me to the conductor puns...

I've heard some good stuff at my local symphony hall (I often take my kids there) but I can't remember any names. They were kinda experimental but still great

Myself, I;ve always favored copper.

Deceased, therefore maybe 'too safe?' Ferenc Fricsay.

Edit Add: though Just recently 'retired,' Maestro Boulez.

Giovanni Antonini... or maybe, just maybe, Alan Curtis.