Paul McCreesh
Paul McCreesh (born 24 May 1960)[1] is an English conductor.
Paul McCreesh is founder and artistic director of the Gabrieli Consort & Players. He has previously been the artistic director of the Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Wrocław, Poland and of the Brinkburn Festival in England. With the Gabrieli Consort & Players, McCreesh has performed in major concert halls and festivals across the world. In 2005 Loughborough University conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters.
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Repertoire and performance
Paul McCreesh made his name in the music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. In recent years he has also worked with modern instrument orchestras including the DSO Berlin, RSO Berlin, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Sinfónica de Euskadi, Stockholm Philharmonic and Beethovenhalle Bonn, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma.
Musical education
McCreesh began his career as a cellist and took his MusB from the University of Manchester in 1981.
Debut
McCreesh's directing début in London was at St John's, Smith Square.[2][citation needed] He made a successful Proms début in 1992: the second part of the concert was "Music for the Coronation of a Doge, 27 April 1595".[3]
Recordings
From 1993 Paul McCreesh built a large discography for Deutsche Grammophon. In 2011 he established Winged Lion, an independent label, which is a subsidiary of Signum Records.
McCreesh is noted for his "liturgical reconstructions" in which music is presented in the context of a specific liturgy with appropriate background sounds such as bell-ringing.[4] The Gramophone Award winning album "Venetian Coronation" (released on Virgin Classics in 1990) represented a breakthrough for the Gabrieli Consort and Players. A new version of this musical reconstruction of the coronation of Marino Grimani was released in 2012 on Winged Lion.[5][6]
"Music for the Duke of Lerma" is a musical reconstruction featuring music associated with Lerma which appeared on DG's Archiv label.[7]
Opera
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McCreesh has conducted Handel's Jephtha for Welsh National Opera and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, as well as Mozart's The Magic Flute for Royal Danish Opera and, for Komische Oper Berlin, a new David Alden staging of Handel's Alcina. He has also conducted Handel's Rodelinda at the Beaune Festival and at the Brinkburn Festival, which he founded and directs.
References
- ^ "Birthdays today". The Telegraph. 24 May 2013. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
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- ^ https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/es/artist/mccreesh/biography
- ^ "30 July 1992. Royal Albert Hall". Proms performance archive. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ Picard, Anna (2012). "Album: Gabrieli Consort & Players, A New Venetian Coronation 1595 (Winged Lion)".
- ^ Rogers, Graham (2012). "Venetian Coronation". BBC. Retrieved 15 June 2012.
- ^ Gill, Andy (2012). "Album: Paul McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players A New Venetian Coronation 1595 (Signum)". Independent.co.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
- ^ "Music for the Duke of Lerma". 2002.
External links
- Paul McCreesh's management website (Rayfield Allied)
- The Gabrieli Consort & Players
- The Monteverdi violins Info about the Gabrielis' replica Baroque violins
- "MozartCircle Interview: 10 Questions with Paul McCreesh". 1 May 2017.