Article: Doctor's sound career moves; Christopher Morley meets a woman who has taken on conducting duties for three orchestras.

Byline: Christopher Morley

When a 24-year-old doctor of neuroscience adds a third orchestra to her regular conducting roster, then ambition and determination are clearly the name of the game - and that name is spelt 'Rachel Hyde'.

Having deliberately taken time out from her all-consuming passion for music in order to gain the 'alternative qualifications' so much suggested by families and careers officers when faced with a youngster desperate to devote their life to the arts, Hyde is now back in the heady maelstrom of musical life, already principal ...

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