Eleven months ago today I was on stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall for the premiere of Children’s BBC’s Ocean Adventure at the 2022 Proms. It was the start of a very important period for me, marking as it did, my […]
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Eleven months ago today I was on stage at London’s Royal Albert Hall for the premiere of Children’s BBC’s Ocean Adventure at the 2022 Proms. It was the start of a very important period for me, marking as it did, my […]
The Time of Our Singing in St. Gallen wrapped last night with an electric performance by our entire cast and instrumental ensemble! It was such a wonderful experience to revisit Kris Defoort’s award-winning opera with a new orchestra, a new jazz […]
After six weeks of rehearsals with Theater St. Gallen, tonight I’m conducting the Swiss Premiere of Kris De Foort‘s wonderful new opera The Time of Our Singing, based on the novel by Richard Powers. This is the first revival of Ted Huffman‘s […]
Last week, I was excited to return to the U.S. for a week with the wonderful Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. As you can see in the photo of the Washington Monument taken from my hotel room, the weather was beautiful and crisp, […]
Happy New Year everyone! After a sunny break in Trinidad over Christmas and New Year, I’m so excited to be back on the road! My winter tour started with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and a programme that included two of my favourite pieces: […]
La Monnaie/De Munt‘s production of Kris De Foort‘s opera The Time of Our Singing has won the International Opera Award for World Premiere of the Year 2021! I enjoy the adventure of bringing new theatrical works to the stage, but returning […]
Six weeks to the day after my arrival in a very sunny Amsterdam, the European Premiere of Blue, the award-winning opera by composer Jeanine Tesori and liberettist Tazewell Thompson, is behind us. Met with glowing reviews in the local press, the […]
After a very intense period of score study, I’m about to leave for Amsterdam to start rehearsing Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori’s Blue which will have its European Premiere at Dutch National Opera in November. This devastating work tells the fictional but all too familiar […]
In the several weeks since I was last in London for the Children’s BBC Prom, I’ve been mostly immersed in preparations for my debut at Dutch National Opera with Jeanine Tesori’s Blue, but I did take a week off to return to London to conduct […]
This weekend, toward the very end of July 2022, brings to a close a really enjoyable fortnight of music-making for me in the U.K. that not only took me back to the BBC Proms for the first time since 2019, […]
