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In Good Hands
The Making of a Modern Conductor

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Alice Farnham is listed in the Classic FM Today's Ten Best Women Conductors and in the BBC Woman's Hour Music Power List . Recent engagements include concerts with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, and Southbank Sinfonia. She has been a Guest Conductor on productions at Royal Opera House, Mariinsky Theatre, Calgary Opera, Folkoperan Stockholm, Wermlands Opera Karlstad, Grange Park Opera, Singapore Lyric Opera, and Teatru Manoel Valetta. Upcoming engagements include L'Elisir D'amore (Longborough Festival Opera), and a new opera by Conor Mitchell - The Trial of Harvey Weinstein (Belfast Ensemble). She has conducted opera productions at GSMD, and RWCMD. She was Music Director for award-winning productions at Welsh National Youth Opera and returns for Shostakovich's Cheryomushki in 2022. Alice has conducted much of the standard ballet repertoire with companies including the Royal Ballet Covent Garden, Birmingham Royal Ballet, and Danish Royal Ballet. In 2022 she conducts Swan Lake at Opéra de Rouen. She is Artistic Director of Women Conductors with the Royal Philharmonic Society and National Concert Hall Dublin Female Conductor Programme and is much sought after as a teacher. She was Organ Scholar at St. Hugh's College, Oxford University and trained for three years with the legendary pedagogue Ilya Musin in St. Petersburg. Klappentext Who dreams of becoming a conductor? What does ittake to get there and stay in the game? Vorwort 'Alice Farnham's insightful book is an inspirational tool, even for those of different disciplines.' CATE BLANCHETT Zusammenfassung Who dreams of becoming a conductor? What does ittake to get there and stay in the game?

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Alice Farnham's insightful book is an inspirational tool, even for those of different disciplines. Cate Blanchett

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Authors Alice Farnham
Publisher Faber & Faber
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 19.01.2023
Subject Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries
 
EAN 9780571370504
ISBN 978-0-571-37050-4
Pages 320
Dimensions (packing) 13.5 x 21.6 x 2.2 cm
 
Subjects Leadership, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Orchestra, Opera, Maestro, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Western Classical Music, Symphony, Western "classical" music, conductor, female conductor
 

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