News & Engagements

Cadogan Hall

I will be con­ducting the Pro Corda Senior String Or­chestra at London’s Cadogan Hall as part of the Pro Corda An­nual Gala Con­cert. We will be per­forming the first move­ment of the En­esco Octet (for string or­chestra). The con­cert is at 3pm on Sunday 26th September 2010. More in­form­a­tion can be found here.

Pro Corda Senior String Orchestra

From the 21st to the 30th Au­gust 2010 I worked at the Pro Corda In­ter­na­tional Chamber Music Academy based at Leiston Abbey con­ducting forty-four ex­cep­tion­ally tal­ented 16–18 year old stu­dents. We started with Tchaikovsky’s Ser­enade for Strings, but the main work for the week was Enesco’s Octet for Strings (for string or­chestra). The theme for the week was French chamber music and En­esco, who studied with Massenet and Fauré in Paris, wrote his octet in Paris aged just 19. The con­cert was on the 30th Au­gust 2010 at Leiston Abbey and was a huge success.

Collaboration with Britten Pears Composer in Residence

During my time as As­sistant Con­ductor to the Britten Pears Or­chestra I had the chance to meet and work with Fang Man who is the com­poser in res­id­ence for the Britten Pears Young Artist Pro­gramme. She has re­cently been ap­pointed as Composer-in-Residence/Assistant Pro­fessor of Music at Baldwin-Wallace Con­ser­vatory of Music. She is cur­rently working on a piece called Tao for Solo Sheng and Solo Cello with or­chestra. On Friday 6th Au­gust 2010 I con­ducted a work­shop of this piece with the Britten Pears Orchestra.

Musical Director of Cantorian Rhos Choir

I am de­lighted to an­nounce that I have been ap­pointed  as Mu­sical Dir­ector to Can­torian Rhos Choir. They are a mixed choir of 50 am­bi­tious chor­is­ters based in North Wales. I very much look for­ward to working with them in September and hope to con­tinue the ex­cel­lent work of Mervyn Cousins who is cur­rently Ex­ec­utive Dir­ector of Llan­gollen In­ter­na­tional Mu­sical Eisteddfod.

Britten-Pears Assistant Conductor

I am de­lighted to an­nounce that I have been se­lected as As­sistant Con­ductor to Kirill Kar­abits for the Britten-Pears Or­chestra in Au­gust 2010 as part of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Pro­gramme. The course runs from the 3rd — 8th Au­gust at Snape and the rep­er­toire is Si­belius Karelia Over­ture, Si­belius Sym­phony No.1 and Strauss Tod und Verklärung. This po­s­i­tion is gen­er­ously sup­ported by the Wor­shipful Com­pany of Mu­si­cians.

I was short­l­isted by DVD aud­iton earlier in the year and then se­lected by Kirill Kar­abits to work closely with him in Au­gust. Kirill is cur­rently Prin­cipal Con­ductor of the Bournemouth Sym­phony Or­chestra and has guest con­ducted the Phil­har­monia Or­chestra, SWR Sin­fonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg and the San Fran­cisco Sym­phony Or­chestra. More info will follow with more de­tail of what I will be doing!