Dvorak 8 recording

In November 2024 the Nottingham Philharmonic recorded Dvorak’s 8th Symhpony at the BBC Philharmonic Studio in MediCity. Available to listen on Spotify and other streaming platforms. Quite an achievement for a non-professional orchestra!

Test Match Special - Settling the Score

As a bit of a cricket fanatic, I was delighted to be invited to conduct the BBC Philharmonic for a radio documentary celebrating the 20th anniversary of the famous 20025 Ashes series between England and Australia. The best series ever, so the say! As well as recording the music, I got to be interviewed for a behind the scenes feature, and then live on Test Match Special during the Old Trafford England v India Test in July. Definitely a career highlight!!

You can listen to the programme, wonderfully narrated by Charles Dance, here.

The “making of” documentary is here.

The clip of the new arrangement of Soul Mambo is here.

BBC Philharmonic jump in

I did one of those very last minute stand-ins taking over a brilliant programme of American music more than halfway through the rehearsal process, leading to a live Radio 3 concert the following evening! It was the biggest BBC Phil to play together since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, so a real privilege to do this. I can safely say I knew the music a lot better by the end of the gig than I did at 10.45am the previous morning!

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Listen here (if in the UK).