Name Paul McCreesh Role Conductor | Movies Handel: Tamerlano | |
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Albums A New Venetian Coronation 1595, Music for San Rocco Awards Danish Grammy Award for Foreign Classical Album of the Year Nominations Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance Similar People Giovanni Gabrieli, Susan Gritton, Reinhard Goebel, Charles Daniels, Mark Pad | ||
Education University of Manchester | ||
Benjamin Britten: Hymn to St. Cecilia / Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli Consort & Players
Paul McCreesh (born 24 May 1960) is an English conductor.
Contents
- Benjamin Britten Hymn to St Cecilia Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli Consort Players
- Heinrich schutz christmas vespers gabrieli consort players paul mccreesh audio video
- Repertoire and performance
- Musical education
- Debut
- Recordings
- Opera
- References
Paul McCreesh is founder and artistic director of the Gabrieli Consort & Players. He is 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.
Heinrich schutz christmas vespers gabrieli consort players paul mccreesh audio video
Repertoire and performance
Paul McCreesh specialises in the music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. He also works with modern instrument orchestras including the DSO Berlin, RSO Berlin, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Detroit Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony, Sinfónica de Euskadi, Stockholm Philharmonic and Beethovenhalle Bonn, the Netherlands Philharmonic 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 was at St John's, Smith Square in London, and a sensational Proms début led to an early signing with Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv label.
Recordings
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. (Winged Lion is an independent label, which McCreesh established in 2011 as a subsidiary of Signum Records).
Paul McCreesh has built a large discography for Deutsche Grammophon.
Opera
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.
