SELECTED programs:

2019

Royal Holloway & London Mozart Players, at St John's Smith Square
Dorothy Howell: Lamia
Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4

Uppsala Chamber Orchestra
Grazyna Bacewicz: Overture
Miklos Rozsa: Violin Concerto (Nils-Erik Sparf, violin)
Dvorak: Symphony no. 6

Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia - ‘Inside the Orchestra’
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6

Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra
Doreen Carwithen: ODTAA
Beethoven: Triple Concerto
Dvorak: Symphony no. 9

Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional/Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
CPE Bach: Heilig
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
Elgar: Enigma Variations

2018

Uppsala Chamber Orchestra
Andrea Tarrodi: Zephyros
Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto no. 3 (Liza Fershtman, violin)
Brahms: Symphony no. 2

Gävle Symphony Orchestra
Emilie Mayer: Faust Overture
Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante (Jakob Koranyi, cello)
Aaron Jay Kernis: Too Hot Toccata

Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra
Gabriela Lena Frank: Three Latin American Dances
Lili Boulanger: D'un matin du Printemps
Bernstein: Three Dances from On the Town

New Haven Symphony Orchestra
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto no. 1 (Nick Cannellakis, cello)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Schumann: Piano Concerto in a minor (Fei Fei Dong, piano)
Beethoven: Symphony no. 4

Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra
Louise Farrenc: Overture no. 2
Schumann: Piano Concerto
Haydn: Symphony no. 103

Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra
Elgar: Cockaigne Overture 
Samantha Fernando: Echo of a Woman (World Premiere)
Henriette Bosmans: Poéme
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from WSS

Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia
Debussy: Prélude à l’apres-midi d’une Faun
Tailleferre: Harp Concertino (Ruth Bennett, harp)
Brahms: Symphony no. 2

National Youth Orchestra of Scotland
Judith Weir: Forest
Jay Capperauld: Endlings (James Willshire, piano)
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Southbank Sinfonia
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis

Salomon Orchestra
Dukas: Fanfare from La Peri
Dorothy Howell: Lamia
Mahler: Symphony no. 5

2017

Uppsala Chamber Orchestra
Ylva Skog: They Call Her Love
Amy Beach: Piano Concerto (Danny Driver, piano)
Beethoven: Symphony no. 2

Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia
Elgar: Cello Concerto (Oliver Coates, cello)
Sibelius: Symphony no. 3

Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra
Ethel Smyth: Overture to the Wreckers
Barber: Violin Concerto (Rock Lee, violin)
Britten: Soirées Musicales
Respighi: Pines of Rome

BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Henriëtte Bosmans: Poème for Cello and Orchestra
Gabriela Lena Frank: Concerto Cusqueño
Shostakovich: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra no. 1 (Andrei Ionita, cello)

City of London Sinfonia
John K Miles: The Wish

Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Dvorak: Symphony no. 7

Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia - ‘Inside the Orchestra’
Beethoven: Symphony no. 5

Salomon Orchestra
Liszt: Les Preludes
Kodaly: Peacock Variations
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

Southbank Sinfonia
Haydn: Symphony no. 104 (with promenade entry)
Korngold: Violin Concerto

Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia
CPE Bach: Sinfonia in D
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 1

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Paul Rissman: The Giddy Goat
Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite (selections)

2016

The Roundhouse, Camden
Hannah Kendall: The Knife of Dawn (World Premiere)
(with Eric Greene, baritone)

Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia
Mendelssohn: Overture to The Hebrides
Ravel: Mother Goose
Beethoven: Symphony no. 7

London Philharmonic Orchestra - Funharmonics ‘Tales from the North’
selections by Grieg and Sibelius

Royal Northern Sinfonia - CD for Signum Records
Kernis: Concerto with Echoes
Kernis: Viola Concerto (Paul Neubauer, viola)
Kernis: Dreamsongs (Joshua Roman, cello)

Nashville Symphony - Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview
(League of American Orchestras)
selections from:
Beethoven: Symphony no. 1
Daugherty: American Gothic
Dvorak: Symphony no. 7

Southbank Sinfonia
CPE Bach: Sinfonia in F Major Wq 183/3
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 ‘Eroica’

Bishop’s Stortford Sinfonia
Stravinsky: Suite from ‘Pulcinella’
Bach: Concerto for Oboe d’Amore (Malcolm Messiter, oboe)
Mozart: Symphony no. 40 (with ‘Inside the Music’ introduction)

London Mozart Players - with Royal Holloway Chamber Orchestra
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
Haydn: Arianna a Naxos
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3

 

2015

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - St George’s, Bristol
CPE Bach: Symphony in D, Wq 183/1
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto (David Blackadder, trumpet)
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Haydn: Symphony no. 104 ‘London’

London Mozart Players
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Mozart: Symphony no. 35
Beethoven: Symphony no. 7

Magna Carta 800 - Music Director  
w/London Philharmonic Orchestra + Temple Church Choir
in the presence of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, Duke of Edinburgh, HRH Princess Anne, Prince William Duke of Cambridge, Prime Minister David Cameron, 

Southbank Sinfonia - St John’s, Waterloo
Daugherty: Sunset Strip
Strauss: Duett-Concertino
Beethoven: Symphony no. 1

Salomon Orchestra - St John’s, Smith Square
Debussy: La Mer
Mahler: Symphony no. 1

Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra 
Bernstein: Divertimento for Orchestra
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Brahms: Symphony no. 1

2014

Royal Northern Sinfonia: recording
Haydn: Symphonies 52, 53, 59 for Signum Records

BBC Proms (with the BBC Concert Orchestra & Crouch End Festival Chorus)
‘BBC Sports Prom’ - selections from Orff: Carmina Burana and Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet, and Shostakovich: The Golden Age; also Mozart: Musical Joke, Ravel: Une Barque sur l’Ocean, Williams: Summon the Heroes, Strauss: Sport Polka

Sussex Symphony Orchestra - Brighton Pavilion
Rossini: Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers
Schubert: Symphony no. 5
Mozart: Symphony no. 41

Royal Northern Sinfonia - Hovingham Hall, Ryedale Festival
CPE Bach: Cello Concerto in A minor
Haydn: Symphony no. 53 ‘The Imperial’
Deborah Pritchard: Skyspace
Mozart: Symphony no. 40

BBC Concert Orchestra (with VoiceLab)
Royal Festival Hall - Pull Out All the Stops Festival
Neil Hannon: To Our Fathers in Distress (world premiere)
Vaughan Williams: Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

BBC Concert Orchestra – CD for Dutton Records
Henry Hadley: Salome
Henry Hadley: Othello
Henry Hadley: San Francisco (premiere recording)
Henry Hadley: In Bohemia
Henry Hadley: Othello
Henry Hadley: Scherzo Diabolique

Royal Northern Sinfonia – CD for Signum Records
Haydn: Symphonies 52, 53, 59

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment – Subscription, Queen Elizabeth Hall
CPE Bach 300th birthday - live performance & recording for Signum Records
CPE Bach: Sinfonia Wq 179, and selections from Wq 182, 183
CPE Bach: Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Fortepiano (Mahan Esfahani, Danny Driver)

2013

Santa Cruz County Symphony

Kodaly: Dances of Galanta
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 5 (Hans Boepple, piano)
Dvorak: Symphony no. 6

Southbank Sinfonia

Kernis: Too Hot Toccata
Piazzolla: Four Seaons of Buenos Aires
Beethoven: Symphony no. 4

The Berkeley Ensemble

Stravinsky: Soldier's Tale

Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society

Elgar: The Spirit of England
Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Elgar: The Music Makers

Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society

Haydn: The Creation

Royal Tunbridge Wells Choral Society

Poulen: Gloria
Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin (Chloe Hanslip)
Faure: Requiem

 

 

2012

Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Centre for Social Action in Music, Caracas, Venezuela

Brahms: Tragic Overture
Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Francisco Fullana, violin)
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances

Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico
Palacio Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico

Stravinsky: Divertimento from 'The Fairy's Kiss'
Barber: Violin Concerto (Manuel Ramos, violin)
Brahms: Symphony no. 2 in D

Southbank Sinfonia
St John's Waterloo, London, UK

Copland: Quiet City
Barber: Violin Concerto (Manuel Ramos, violin)
Jalbert: Chamber Symphony

 

2011

The New Professionals @ The Richmond Concert Society
Opening of 50th anniversary season

Stravinsky: Soldier's Tale (complete)
with Petroc Trelawny, Richard Sisson, Daniel Hallissey
Mozart: Gran Partita

Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de las Artes
Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Dvorak: Symphony no. 8

Chicago College of the Performing Arts/Roosevelt University
Annual Gala at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago

Grieg: Concerto for Piano
Barber: Knoxville Summer of 1919
Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien

Southbank Sinfonia
Sisson: Concerto for Oboe and Violin
Copland: Concerto for Clarinet
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals (Richard Sisson, narrator)

Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico - Subscription
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Martinu: Oboe Concerto
Scriabin: Symphony no. 2

 

2010

Orquesta Sinfonica de Aguascalientes - Subscription
Javier Gonzalez: 5 Canciones for Soprano and Orchestra
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Francis Duroy, violin)
Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 ‘Pastoral'

Orquesta Sinfonica de Yucatan - Subscription
Daniel Ayala Perez: Suite Veracruz
Haydn: Concerto for Trumpet (Robert Myers, trumpet)
Mussorgsky/Rimsky Korsakov: Night on a Bald Mountain
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture

Orquesta Filarmonica del UNAM - Subscription
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (selections)
Mozart: Horn Concerto no. 3 (Mateo Ruiz, horn)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Subscription
Mendelssohn: Overture to Midsummer Night's Dream
Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brilliant (Spencer Meyer, piano)
Schumann: Introduction and Allegro Appassionato (Spencer Meyer, piano)
Dvorak: Symphony no. 7

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Casual Classics
Torke: An Italian Straw Hat (suite)
Strauss: Blue Danube
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (Dustin Gledhill, piano)
Gershwin: American in Paris

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Casual Classics
Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini (Inon Barnatan, piano)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

2009

Huntsville Symphony Orchestra - Subscription
Dvorak: Symphony no. 9
Tchaikovsky: Variations of a Rococo Theme (Jesus Castro-Balbi, ‘cello)
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Casual Classics
Daugherty: Desi
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Dvorak: Symphony no. 9

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Subscription
Ravel: Alborada del Grazioso
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no. 3 (Danny Driver, piano)
Brahms: Symphony no. 2

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Casual Classics
CPE Bach: Sinfonia in Eb
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto (Vance Woolf, trumpet)
Schumann: Symphony no. 2

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Casual Classics
‘Vive la France'
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'une faune
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto no. 1 (Jonathan Gerhardt, cello)
Bizet: Carmen (selections)
Debussy: La Mer
Chabrier: Espagna

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Casual Classics
‘The British are Coming'
Vaughan Williams: Variations of a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Bowen: Piano Concerto no. 3 *US PREMIERE (Danny Driver, piano)
Elgar: Enigma Variations

2008

Reno Philharmonic Orchestra - Subscription
Pierre Jalbert: Chamber Symphony
Glazunov: Violin Concerto (Maya Cabeza, violin)
Beethoven: Symphony no. 3

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Casual Classics
‘Bohemian Rhapsody'
Dvorak: Carnival Overture
Novak: In the Tatra Mountains
Ravel: Tzigane (Joseph Meyer, violin)
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances
Martinu: Memorial to Lidice
Kodaly: Dances of Galanta

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Casual Classics
‘Russian Revolution'
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Rachmaninoff: Paganini Variations (Konstantin Soukhovetski, piano)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra - Subscription
Jalbert: Chamber Symphony
Chopin: Piano Concerto no. 2 (Feina Lushtak, piano)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 2

Houston Symphony - The Beethoven Experience
'Beethoven's Missing Notes' - Family Concert
Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Beethoven: Symphony 5, i
Beethoven: Symphony 6, iii
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no. 1, i
Beethoven: Symphony 1, iv
Beethoven: Symphony 9, ii

The New Professionals - Hampstead Orchestral Series - Season Finale
Schumann: Overture, Scherzo and Finale
Gabriela Lena Frank: La Llorona *EUROPEAN PREMIERE (Paul Silverthorne, viola)
Beethoven: Symphony no. 5

London Sinfonietta
Samanta Jellett: Alien in the Desert
Mark Lawrence: Earthshine
Mario Ferraro: Yu
Artemis Aifotiti: Winged Words
Christopher Scobie: Two Pieces
Sarah Collins: Cat and Mouse
Carlos Duque: N41'23.63, E002'10.42

2007

Williamsport Symphony Orchestra/Susquehanna Valley Chorale - Subscription concert
Kernis: New Era Dance
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
Dvorak: Te Deum
Dvorak: Symphony no. 8

The New Professionals - Hampstead Orchestral Series
Jalbert: Chamber Symphony - EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Barber: Violin Concerto (Thomas Gould, violin)
Brahms: Symphony no. 2

The Houston Symphony - ‘Summer Symphony Nights'
Kodaly: Dances of Galanta
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto (Rachel Lee, violin)
Elgar: Enigma Variations

The Houston Symphony - ‘Hocus Pocus Pops'
Strauss: Fledermaus Overture, Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Grieg: Lyric Suite, Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Offenbach: Can Can, Liadov: Baba Yaga, Williams: Harry Potter, Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries

The New Professionals - Hampstead Orchestral Series - Season Opening
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony
Elgar: Cello Concerto (Gemma Rosefield, cello)
Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 3

The Houston Symphony - ‘Salute to Educators'
Barber: Overture to the School for Scandal
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Dvorak: Symphony no. 7

2006

The Houston Symphony - Subscription ‘Classical Series'
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture

The Houston Symphony - ‘Open House' (Preview of 2006-07 season)
Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Rossini: Overture to the Barber of Seville
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice

The Houston Symphony - ‘Houston Chronicle Dollar Concert'
Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave
Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Prokofiev: Classical Symphony
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite

The Houston Symphony - ‘Summer Symphony Nights'
Mussorgsky: Night on a Bald Mountain
Rimsky-Korsakov: Trombone Concerto (Allen Barnhill, trombone)
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra - Subscription - ‘Classical' Series
Schumann: Overture to ‘The Bride from Messina'
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no. 3 (Igor Levit, piano)
Tsippi Fleischer: Symphony no. 5
Dvorak: Symphony no. 8

2005

The Bard Festival - Bard Festival Chamber Players
Copland: Music for the Theatre
Milhaud: Creation du Monde

The New Professionals - Hampstead Parish Church
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Thomas Gould, violin)
Brahms: Symphony #4

New Asiana Ensemble - Seoul Arts Centre
Chan Hae Lee: Five Pansori Songs

Proms at St Jude's - The New Professionals
Kodaly: Dances of Galanta
Schumann: Piano Concerto (Danny Driver, piano)
Beethoven: Symphony #3

The New Professionals - Hampstead Parish Church
Dvorak: ‘Cello Concerto (Oliver Coates, cello)
Brahms: Symphony #1

City Music Society - The New Professionals (Goldsmith's Hall, London)
Tippett: Divertimento on Sellinger's Round
Britten: Sinfonietta
Mahler: Symphony #4 (arr. Erwin Stein)

Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre (London):
Concordia Foundation's 10th Anniversary Gala
Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
Rodrigo: Concierto Aranjuez (Morgan Szymanski, guitar)
Piazzolla: Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (Corina Belcea, violin)
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Stravinsky: Suite from ‘The Firebird'

2004

The New Professionals
Brahms: Serenade no. 2, Dvorak: Serenade for Winds, Britten: Sinfonietta

Kingston University Orchestra and Chorus
Mendelssohn: Elijah

The New Professionals
Haydn: Divertimento in C
Schoenberg: Kammersypmhonie no. 1
Poulenc: Le Bal Masqué

Kingston University Orchestra
Adams: The Chairman Dances
Kabalevsky: Violin Concerto
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition