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Adrian Partington
Adrian Frederick Partington (born 1 October 1958) is an English conductor, chorus master, organist and pianist.
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Alun Hoddinott
Alun Hoddinott CBE (11 August 1929 – 11 March 2008) was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition.
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Anthony Powers
Anthony Powers (born 13 March 1953) is a British composer of classical music.
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Arlene Sierra
Arlene Sierra (born June 1, 1970) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, working in London, United Kingdom.
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Arvo Pärt
Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music.
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B. Tommy Andersson
B.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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BBC Radio
BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927).
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BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC.
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BBC Radio Cymru
BBC Radio Cymru is BBC Cymru Wales' Welsh-language national radio network.
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BBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Wales is BBC Cymru Wales's national English language radio station.
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BBC Television
BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Boris Brott
Boris Brott, (born March 14, 1944) is a Canadian conductor and motivational speaker.
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Bryden Thomson
Bryden Thomson (16 July 1928 – 14 November 1991) was a Scottish conductor remembered especially for his championship of British and Scandinavian composers.
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Cardiff
Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.
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Earthflight
Earthflight is a British nature documentary that shows a flight from the view of the wings of birds across six continents, showing some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view.
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Edmund Rubbra
Edmund Rubbra (23 May 190114 February 1986) was a British composer.
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Erich Bergel
Erich Bergel (1 June 1930 – 3 May 1998) was a flutist and conductor.
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François-Xavier Roth
François-Xavier Roth (born 6 November 1971 in Paris) is a French conductor.
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Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor.
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Human Planet
Human Planet is an 8-part British television documentary series.
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Huw Watkins
Huw Watkins (born 13 July 1976) is a British composer and pianist.
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Idris Lewis
Idris Lewis (21 November 1889 – 5 April 1952) was a British conductor and composer.
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Jac van Steen
Jac van Steen (born 1956 in Eindhoven) is a Dutch conductor.
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John Carewe
John Carewe (born 24 January 1933) is a British conductor.
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Lennox Berkeley
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer.
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Mansel Thomas
Mansel Treharne Thomas, (12 June 1909 – 8 January 1986) was a Welsh composer and conductor, who worked mainly in South Wales.
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Mark Bowden (composer)
Mark Bowden (born 1979, South Wales) is a British composer of classical music.
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Mark Eager
Mark Eager (born 17 March) is an English-born conductor and former BBC National Orchestra of Wales Principal Trombone.
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Mark Wigglesworth
Mark Wigglesworth (born 19 July 1964) is an English conductor.
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Michael Berkeley
Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, (born 29 May 1948) is an English composer and broadcaster on music.
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Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.
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Radio orchestra
A radio orchestra (or broadcast orchestra) is an orchestra employed by a radio network (and sometimes television networks) in order to provide programming as well as sometimes perform incidental or theme music for various shows on the network.
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Rae Jenkins
Rae Jenkins, born Henry Horatio Jenkins (19 April 1903 – 29 March 1985) was a Welsh violinist and later conductor of light music, notably with the BBC Midland Light Orchestra (1942–1946), the.
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Reginald Redman
Reginald Redman (1892–1972 Music Web International. Accessed January 2014.) was a conductor and composer.
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Richard Hickox
Richard Sidney Hickox, CBE (5 March 1948 – 23 November 2008) was an English conductor of choral, orchestral and operatic music.
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Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.
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Simon Holt
Simon Holt (born 21 February 1958) is a British composer.
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St David's Hall
St David's Hall (Welsh: Neuadd Dewi Sant) is a performing arts and conference venue in the heart of Cardiff, Wales.
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Tadaaki Otaka
is a Japanese and British conductor.
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The Proms
The Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.
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Thierry Fischer
Thierry Fischer (born 28 September 1957) is a Swiss orchestra conductor and flutist.
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Thomas Søndergård
Thomas Søndergård (born 4 October 1969 in Holstebro, Denmark) is a Danish conductor.
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Torchwood
Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies.
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Wales
Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.
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Wales Millennium Centre
Wales Millennium Centre (Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) is an arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales.
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Warwick Braithwaite
Henry Warwick Braithwaite (9 January 1896 – 19 January 1971) was a New Zealand-born orchestral conductor.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Xian Zhang
Xian Zhang, born in 1973 in Dandong, Liaoning) is a Chinese-American conductor. Born to musician parents, Zhang began to learn music as a child with her mother on a piano built by her father. She continued her music studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She began conducting studies at age 16, and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the conservatory in Beijing. Her first conducting appearance was at age 19 with the China National Opera Orchestra in a production of The Marriage of Figaro. She served as conductor-in-residence of the China Opera House in Beijing, and conductor of the Jinfan Symphony Orchestra. Zhang moved to the United States in 1998. She studied for her doctorate in music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and also served for four years as music director of the university's Concert Orchestra. In 2002, she shared in the first prize of the first Maazel/Vilar Conductors' Competition. She served as a cover conductor with the New York Philharmonic from 2002 to 2004. She became an assistant conductor with the New York Philharmonic in 2004, and her conducting debut with the orchestra was in a Young People's Concert that year. In January 2005, she made her Philharmonic subscription debut in January 2005 on a program shared with Lorin Maazel. Maazel subsequently appointed Xian Zhang as the orchestra's associate conductor in 2005, a post she held for several years. Zhang served as the fifth music director of the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra from 2005 to 2007. In January 2008, she became the first woman to conduct the Staatskapelle Dresden in its principal hall. In March 2009, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi announced the appointment of Zhang as its next music director, the first woman to be named music director of an Italian symphony orchestra, effective with the 2009-2010 season. In December 2010, the Nederlandse Orkest- en Ensemble-Academie (NJO; Dutch Orchestra and Ensemble Academy) named Zhang its artistic leader, as of the summer of 2011. She held the NJO post until September 2015. With the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, she completed her tenure as music director in 2016, and now has the title of Direttore Emerito (conductor emeritus) with the ensemble. Zhang first guest-conducted the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in 2010, and returned for further guest appearances in February 2012 and May 2015. In November 2015, the NJSO announced her appointment as its 14th music director, effective in September 2016, with an initial contract of 4 years. She is the first female conductor to be named music director of the NJSO. In June 2018, the NJSO announced the extension of her contract through the 2023-2024 season. In December 2015, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBC NOW) announced her appointment as its next principal guest conductor, effective with the 2016-2017 season, with an initial contract of 3 years. She is the first female conductor named to a titled post with any BBC orchestra. In this capacity, with the BBC NOW, she was the first woman conductor ever to conduct the annual Prom which includes the Symphony No. 9 of Beethoven, on 30 July 2017. Zhang and her husband Yang Lei have two sons.
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References
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