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elcome to the website of Scottish conductor Mark Heron. Here you will find concert information, biographies, reviews, photos and contact information. As well as being a promotional tool for me, I hope you will find that the site is a useful resource that contains some useful and interesting information of general interest to conductors and other musicians. Most of this is accessed through the Teaching page.


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wasbeCincinnati
For the next week or so I'll be in Cincinnati with the RNCM Wind Orchestra performing at the WASBE conference. You can follow the conference at www.wasbe.com where there will be daily updates and reviews, including a tour blog from yours truly. Our programme is entirely of British music written (with the exception of a short Vaughan Williams starter for ten) since 1979. In chronological order of composition: Edward Gregson, Adam Gorb, Edwin Roxburgh, David Horne, Michael Oliva, Gary Carpenter. We'll also give a repertoire concert which includes pieces by current and former RNCM composition students Duncan Ward, Emily Howard and Gavin Higgins.


npoRecent Reviews
"The Nottingham Philharmonic has long been one of the country's finest amateur orchestras but since the appointment of rising Scottish conductor, Mark Heron, they consistently deliver performances on a par with the region's professional outfits."

"Gustav Mahler said that nature was all around him, and all he had to do was compose it. Never have I heard his musical impressions of nature reproduced so eloquently than in a memorable performance of Mahler's First Symphony under Mark Heron's incisive guidance."

CD Review: Stephen McNeff: Image in Stone
"This CD, then, is recommended to anyone interested in uncommon wind band music—in fact, to anyone attracted by deeply felt, slightly quirky, highly individual contemporary music. As one would expect given the provenance, the youthful wind ensemble—mostly players 18 to19 years old—performs beautifully."
Full review from Fanfare magazine here.


jmJames MacMillan
Happy 50th birthday to one our greatest living composers. It was a pleasure to work with Jimmy during our recent RNCM Festival devoted to his music.

The Festival involved the BBC Philharmonic and various RNCM orchestras and ensembles and many of the chamber music and ensemble pieces featured were given repeat performances at the Wigmore Hall the following week.

More information about James MacMillan.



rlpoRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
I was delighted to make my first appearance with the RLPO in December, and equally delighted to be invited back so quickly - this time to conduct a family concert presented by Alasdair Malloy.
Details here


Canford Summer School of Music
Canford is one of the great English summer music traditions and offers a wealth of courses where professionals, students and amateurs mingle in the beautiful setting of Sherborne School in Dorset.

The dates for the 2009 conducting course which I run with Tim Reynish is 2nd to 9th August. Details are now available on the school's website or feel free to email me to ask about the course which last year attracted 26 students from all over the world.


Stephen McNeff Recording
Stephen McNeff is Composer in the House with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and a noted composer of opera and theatre music. His opera Tarka the Otter, for mixed cast  of professionals and non-professionals, won the 2007 British Composer Award in the stage works category. I recently recorded his major wind orchestra pieces with the RNCM Wind Orchestra and the disc has now been released on the Campion label. Visit Tim Reynish's site for a review of the disc. The recording will be available on ITunes soon, or the CD can be ordered from the RNCM: email Ian Duckworth.


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