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Peter Marchbank
 Peter
Marchbank is one of the most experienced musicians of his generation,
having been working with orchestras both as Conductor and Manager for more
than forty years. Since his return to the concert platform with the
Orchestre National de Lille in 1991, he has conducted major orchestras in
countries all over the world including Australia, Bulgaria, the Czech
Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey and the Ukraine, while in Great
Britain he has conducted the Northern Sinfonia, the Orchestra of the Swan
and ensembles from both the Royal College of Music and the Royal Northern
College of Music. He has made six tours in Central and
South America
conducting orchestras in
Costa Rica
,
Panama
,
Colombia
,
Ecuador
and
Venezuela
.
With
the National Symphony Orchestra of South African Broadcasting Corporation,
he recorded CDs of orchestral music by the English composer, Cyril Scott,
Symphonies by the Danish composer, Louis Glass, and two CDs of orchestral
music by South African composers for the Marco Polo label. His disc of
music by Cyril Scott was enthusiastically received by the critics and was
awarded the prestigious “Diapason d’Or” by the French music
magazine, Diapason. His performances have frequently been broadcast on the
radio and television networks of many of the countries he has visited,
whilst his CDs are broadcast all over the world.
In
April 2000, he conducted the European premiere of George Lloyd’s
valedictory Cello Concerto with the Orquestra Nacional do
Porto
. In 2002, he conducted the world premiere of
Victoria Yagling’s Symphony-Concerto for cello and orchestra with the
composer herself as soloist. He is a regular visitor to
Poland
where he has conducted many of the major orchestras. He opened the 2003
Lublin Festival with a performance of Mozart’s Requiem in the Dominican
Basilica, one of the oldest and most beautiful churches in the city. He
has also conducted a performance of Enesco’s First Symphony in
Iasi
in
Romania
where the composer himself was once the Music Director. In 2005, he made
his German debut conducting the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Saarbrucken in
a programme that contained the world premiere of Christoph Staude’s
Kohinoor and was broadcast live on all the German radio stations and on
France Musique. He has recently conducted concerts in
Kiev
and
Poland
and he will return to
Lublin
for the fifth time in September 2008 to conduct two concerts. Later in the
year, he will conduct the Orquestra do
Algarve
in a series of concerts and will make his debut conducting the Wroclaw
Chamber Orchestra.
Peter
Marchbank studied Music at
Cambridge
University
and took up conducting at an early age being helped and encouraged by,
among others, Sir Adrian Boult and Frederik Prausnitz. In 1977, he was
appointed Senior Producer of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and was
responsible for its artistic direction and management for thirteen years.
During that time, Peter Marchbank is delighted to have introduced such
outstanding conductors as Valery Gergiev, Libor Pesek and Leonard Slatkin
to British audiences and to have helped the careers of many talented young
conductors, soloists and composers. In addition, he regularly programmed
music by composers such as Enesco, Percy Grainger, Korngold, Martinu,
Franz Schmidt and Szymanowski long before they achieved the fashionable
status that they enjoy today.
As
can be seen from his repertoire, Peter Marchbank has wide musical tastes
and is firmly committed to the
music of our time. Over the years, he has had the privilege of working
with many of the world’s great composers including Berio, Birtwistle,
Henze, Lutoslawski, Maxwell Davies, Penderecki and Tippett as well as with
most of the leading British composers of today.
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Patron
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Vice-Presidents
The Countess of
Leicester
, The Marquess of Cholmondeley,
Lord Simon of Highbury, Lord Broers
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