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Associate Conductor - London Charity Orchestra (Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
with Zoe Beyers, St. John’s, Smith Square; The Planets, LSO-St.
Luke’s); Principal Guest Conductor - Essex Chamber Orchestra;
Founder/Conductor - Spires Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (new
professional ensemble for Coventry – Godiva Festival); Conductor -
Warwickshire Youth Orchestra, Derbyshire City and County Youth Wind
Band.
For nine years Conductor (orchestra, choir, wind band) at Dartington
International Summer School. Conducted choirs for London Mozart
Players (Mathias Bamert) including Harry Blech Memorial Concert, and
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Vernon Handley – The Planets, Gilbert
Kaplan – Mahler Resurrection). Previously Conductor, Chetham’s
School of Music (with Christopher Seaman, Nicholas Kraemer, Wilfried
Boettcher) and Founder/Conductor Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Conducted
over 100 concerts at Warwick Arts Centre (leading UK hall), including
Mahler Symphony of a Thousand, Bruckner 4, Beethoven cycle, Tippett
Child of Our Time, and opera including Gluck Orpheus ed Eurydice,
Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin, Bizet Carmen. Conducted Los Angeles
Symphonic Winds at Chicago Mid-West Clinic; Symphony Hall Birmingham
(Elgar Enigma Variations, Tchaikovsky 4), The Anvil Basingstoke,
Bridgewater Hall Manchester (own oratorio Hilarion), Vienna Rathaus
and Salzburg (Brahms 2, Mozart Requiem), Paris (Elgar Dream of
Gerontius). Conducted National Youth Wind Orchestras of both Britain
and Luxembourg, and Hong Kong Youth Orchestra.
Colin has commissioned and premiered many new works and gained many awards
with orchestras, choirs and bands, including Gold, Open Class Final,
National Concert Band Festival, and Gold or Silver at every
international festival entered. He has founded several ensembles -
Warwick Orchestral Winds, British Universities Honours Band, National
Youth Recorder Orchestra. His compositions have been broadcast on
national and local radio and television; he is increasingly in demand
to write to commission, and lead workshops in conducting, clarinet,
recorder, teaching, adjudication, having given such presentations now
in over 20 countries.
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