Domingo Hindoyan and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in 2022 |
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra has welcomed six new musicians into its ranks, while the Brighton Early Music Competition has introduced the appointment of recent co-artistic administrators, and the younger British conductor, George Jackson has had his contract renewed as music director of Amarillo Symphony Orchestra for an additional three years.
On 17 October 2024 Domingo Hindoyan carried out the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler’s First Symphony, Juan Bautista Plaza’s Vigilia and Strauss’ 4 Final Songs with soprano Sarah Wegener. The opening live performance within the orchestra’s 2024/25 season, it additionally represented the primary live performance with the orchestra for six musicians being welcomed into the ranks – Fábio Brum, who joins as part chief trumpet, Miquel Ramos Salvadó as part chief clarinet, Nadia Debono as affiliate principal viola, Peter Liang as No.4 1st violin and Anna Crawford and Angus McCall becoming a member of the cello part.
Brazilian trumpeter Fábio Brum is a former member of the Canadian Brass and Principal Trumpet for each the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra and the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra. Miquel Ramos Salvadó has repeatedly carried out in orchestras such the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Tonhalle Zürich, Liceu Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, and Competition Strings Luzern. Maltese viola participant Nadia Debono’s expertise spans a number of genres and types, together with baroque and non-classical. She was co-leader of the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, and Solo Principal Viola with the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra, in Norway.
Full particulars from the orchestra’s web site.
As many individuals will know, Deborah Roberts the co-founder and creative director of Brighton Early Music Competition (BREMF) sadly handed away earlier this yr. BREMF has introduced the appointment of two new co-artistic administrators, soprano Hannah Ely and recorder-player Olwen Foulkes. Each had been beforehand a part of the BREMF Stay younger artists scheme,they’ve each carried out on the Competition in musical ensembles and opera productions, and have mentored different artists.;
Hannah Ely is a soprano specialising in Renaissance and Baroque music. In 2012 she based the Fieri Consort, the place she explores progressive performances of Italian madrigals, which has led her to her present enterprise on ornamentation in madrigals within the duo Accenti, in addition to with the Monteverdi String Band, and he or she was not too long ago appointed music director of Purbeck Arts Week Competition. Olwen Foulkes is a recorder participant, curator and educator with a love of eighteenth-century chamber music, and a analysis focus of the early eighteenth-century London music scene. In 2019 she based her chamber music group Ensemble Augelletti who’re present BBC New Era Baroque Ensemble and Metropolis Music Basis Artists. She is Assistant Curator at Handel Hendrix Home the place she curates exhibition content material, and he or she is a tutorial lecturer on the Royal Academy of Music.
Full particulars from the BREMF web site.
Over within the USA, in Amarillo, Texas, George Jackson started his tenure as music director of the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra in September 2022, main the orchestra into its centenary season of 2023/24. He has now had his tenure renewed for an additional three years. Beneath Jackson’s creative route, the Symphony has skilled a surge in viewers engagement, because of fascinating applications that showcase the varied cultural panorama of the Texas Panhandle. The orchestra has developed from comparatively humble beginnings in 1924 to turn out to be a significant cultural drive within the Texas Panhandle, serving an unlimited area spanning 25,000 sq. miles and past.
George Jackson leads the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra’s a centesimal season opener at Hodgetown in Amarillo, August 2023 (Photograph: Michael Cuviello/Amarillo Globe-Information from Amarillo Globe-Information) |
George Jackson’s performances within the UK that we now have caught embrace La Boheme at Opera Holland Park [see my review], celebrating the eighty fifth anniversary of The Beano with the BBC Live performance Orchestra together with the premiere of Gavin Higgins’ new percussion concerto [see my review], Janacek’s The Excursions of Mr Broucek at Grange Park Opera [see my review], Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Opera Holland Park [see my review]. In 2021, I sat down for a chat with George Jackson, learn extra in my interview, ‘The steadiness between an ideal artwork kind & giving individuals what they need’.
Full particulars from the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra’s web site.