Minute Maestro

Date

October 29, 2010

Time

13:00

Place

Birkbeck, University of London: Malet Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX, London

Room

Torrington Place

Price

See below

Open conducting workshop led by Stuart Stratford of Opera Holland Park, followed by the opportunity for you to conduct a string quartet from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama  for 1 minute!

Born in Preston, Stuart Stratford read music at Trinity College, Cambridge, and studied conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatoire.

Opera engagements include: Don Giovanni, Satyagraha and Palace in the Sky for English National Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, I Pagliacci and Swanhunter for Opera North, The Turn of the Screw, Falstaff and I Pagliacci for English Touring Opera, La bohème at the Royal Albert Hall, Tobias and the Angel and Ion for the Almeida Opera Festival; Candide for Birmingham Opera Company; a Channel 4 film of The Eternity Man in Australia, Mercadante’s I Normanni a Parigi with the Philharmonia Orchestra for Opera Rara. Concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, Orchestra of Welsh National Opera and Orquestra Nacional do Porto.

For more information about Opera Holland Park www.operahollandpark.com

Cost: Free, no booking required, meet near the Birkbeck University entrance on Torrington Square.  N.B. If the weather is wet we will meet in room B20 inside Birkbeck.

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Organizers

Inside Out Festival

Registration

For this event no registration is necessary on the Inside Out Festival website but may (if stated above) be required elsewhere