LONDON — Gillian Moore is the music director at the Southbank Center in London, one of the world’s biggest multivenue arts centers. While she oversees all types of genres — including pop, jazz, folk and rock — classical music is her area of expertise.

The following discussion has been edited and condensed.

We live in times when classical music venues are experiencing difficulties in appealing to young audiences. At concerts, we see a lot of gray hair. How are you combating that?

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I hate to be a Pollyanna, but I wouldn’t overstate that, because you see all ages. I just don’t want to say ‘Classical music is an all-white, elderly enclave’ because it isn’t, actually. However, I want to make sure that people who come here, or who don’t come here, have the same opportunities that I had as a child from not a very fancy background at all — who, without having to think too hard about it, was able to go to concerts from a young age. And I want to make sure that there are all sorts of different layers of programming so that we’re continuing to innovate.