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ORLANDO JOPLING
After a music degree
from Cambridge University, Orlando studied with Sir Colin Davis,
George Hurst and Colin Metters at the RAM and Diego Masson at
Dartington. In his twenties he assisted Sir Colin Davis with his
chamber orchestral versions of all the late Beethoven Quartets, Wyn
Davies for Scottish Opera, and Andre Previn on A Streetcar Named
Desire, working with the LSO.
He now regularly conducts the English Chamber Orchestra both in the
recording studio (recording Schubert, Schumann and Rachmaninov) and
on the concert platform, and has also recently appeared with the
London Mozart Players, Sinfonia Viva and The Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra. He is a fearless champion of living composers, and a
particular advocate of Sibelius, Janacek, Ravel, lesser-known
British composers and the Viennese waltz and operetta tradition.
Other recent repertoire has included Elgar's 2nd Symphony and
Stravinsky's Song of the Nightingale, Prokofiev, as well as
stylistically enlightened performances of Mozart, Beethoven,
Schubert and Brahms.
He has also worked closely with Sinead O'Connor, Martha Wainwright
and Linda Thompson, and has written and orchestrated music for film
and TV.
Orlando is a graduate of the National Opera Studio in London where
he won the first Leonard Hancock scholarship. He also founded Tete a
Tete, who have commissioned operas and presented the modern world
première of Vivaldi's lost opera Orlando finto pazzo. Over
the last six years he has built up Stanley Hall Opera into an
established annual festival with an enviable reputation. With them
he has cast and conducted Cosi fan tutte, Figaro, Don Pasquale,
Falstaff , Cenerentola and the first ever professional
production in English of Rossini's La Pietra del Paragone.
Other opera work includes Figaro for Savoy Opera, The
Merry Widow for Carl Rosa, La Scala di Seta for
Independent Opera, and Don Giovanni in Vienna with the
Schonbrunn Orchestra. He now has a particular reputation for the
middle-late bel canto tradition.
He also studied cello with William Pleeth and Steven Isserlis, and
enjoys a wide range of chamber music and orchestral playing, with
the LSO, OAE and Endymion Ensemble among others, as well as a large
contemporary chamber music repertoire with Jane Manning.
Orlando Jopling is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
FOLLOWING A HIGHLY
SUCCESSFUL CONCERT AT CHRISTMAS, ORLANDO HAS ACCEPTED OUR INVITATION
TO BECOME OUR PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING
WITH HIM FOR MANY YEARS TO COME
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