AboutOfficial Site: http://www.hughkaylor.com/Davis/In his sixth season as Music Director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Sir Andrew Davis is also Artistic Advisor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Laureate of the Toronto Symphony as well as the BBC Symphony, Andrew Davis’ remarkably varied repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary, with world premieres of many symphonic and operatic works to his credit. Known to audiences worldwide from his BBC Proms appearances, he is a notable interpreter of much twentieth century music, including Janacek, Messiaen, Boulez, Elgar, Tippett and Britten, as well as the core symphonic repertoire. He has toured extensively, has made many acclaimed recordings and regularly guest conducts leading European and North American orchestras. Music Director at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera from 1988 to 2000, Sir Andrew Davis has conducted operatic productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Metropolitan Opera, New York; Milan’s La Scala; San Francisco Opera; Bavarian State Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Dresden Semper Oper and his Bayreuth debut in the summer of 2002. He returned to Bayreuth in 2003. Appointed the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor in 1989, he maintained and enhanced the tradition of innovative programming, which has given the orchestra its justly deserved reputation as one of the world’s most versatile ensembles. He conducted many of their major projects, London Proms (including the famed Last Night) and tours, among them Hong Kong (1990), Japan (1990, 1993, 1997. 2002), the United States (1995 and 1998) and Europe (1992 and 1996). In August 1997, he conducted their Salzburg Festival debut. Upon his appointment at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, in addition to relinquishing his Glyndebourne post, he also gave up his post with the BBC Symphony. The longest-serving Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since its founder Sir Adrian Boult, he became their first-ever Conductor Laureate, with regular London appearances, including Proms each year. He has also returned to Glyndebourne as guest conductor. Music Director of the Toronto Symphony for many seasons, he currently holds the post of Conductor Laureate with that orchestra. Future and recent-past orchestral engagements include returns to leading ensembles that include the New York Philharmonic, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Toronto Symphonies, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Royal Concertgebouw, the NDR Hamburg, the Vienna Symphony, the Dresden Staatskapelle and the Leipzig Gewandhausorchester. Andrew Davis has recorded the Dvorak Symphonies with the Philharmonia, the Mendelssohn Symphonies with the Bavarian Radio Symphony and a Borodin cycle with the Toronto Symphony for CBS. Other recordings include the Shostakovich Violin concertos, Brahms Piano concertos and Nielsen Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5 for Virgin Classics. Most recent recording projects include The British Line, a major series with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for Warner Classics International. This acclaimed series has included the Elgar Symphonies and Enigma Variations, a complete Vaughan Williams symphony cycle and music by Delius, Britten and Tippett. Operatic releases include the Glyndebourne productions of Katya Kabanova, Jenufa and Queen of Spades. Andrew Davis received the 2003 Dushkin Award from the Music Institute of Chicago. He received a Royal Philharmonic Society/Charles Heidsieck Music Award in 1991 for leading the BBC Symphony Orchestra through an outstanding Diamond Jubilee season, for his excellence in the operatic field, particularly as the Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera and for his championing of British music, especially the music of Tippett. In May 1995 he accepted on behalf of Glyndebourne Festival Opera the Royal Philharmonic Society award for the best musical opera performance of 1994 for its production of Eugene Onegin. The 1996 Glyndebourne Opera Production of Lulu won the prize for Best Video in the 1997 Gramophone Awards and in September 1998 his recording of Birtwistle’s ‘Mask of Orpheus’ with the BBC Symphony Orchestra won a Gramophone Award for Best Contemporary Recording. His recording of the Elgar/Payne Symphony No. 3 in November 1998 won the Critics Choice Award for National Public Radio – Performance Today. In January 2000 Glyndebourne Opera’s Pelleas et Mélisande, which he conducted, won the South Bank Show award for Opera. In recognition of his services to music, Andrew Davis was awarded the CBE in May 1992 and in January 1999, he was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours List. February 2006 |
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