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Paul McCreesh, conductor

Short Biography

Paul McCreesh is fast becoming one of the UK’s most exciting and innovative conductors, equally at home in early and standard repertoire, on the concert platform and in the opera house.

Voted one of the top 100 Conductors of the 20th Century by Classic Music Magazine, McCreesh is the founder and Artistic Director of the period instrument Gabrieli Consort & Players, with whom he has established an outstanding international reputation for his historically informed presentations of Renaissance and Baroque music. Numerous prize winning recordings with the Gabrieli Consort & Players have included music by Bach, Gabrieli, Monteverdi, Purcell, Schütz and an on-going series of Handel oratorios.

Possessing extremely broad musical interests, McCreesh has conducted a wide range of later repertoire over recent seasons with modern orchestras in the UK, Europe and the USA including much of the Classical repertoire, as well as works by Fauré, Stravinsky, Elgar, Schubert, Ravel, Bruckner, Schnittke, Britten, Grainger, Mahler and Ives, amongst others.

Paul McCreesh is also very active in the opera house. In October 2000 he made a phenomenal operatic debut at Welsh National Opera with a universally praised new production of Gluck's Orphée & Eurydice; this was followed by a new production of Britten's Albert Herring at Amsterdam and The Hague Conservatoires. Future opera projects include new productions at Welsh National Opera (Jephtha), Académie Baroque, Ambronay (Athalia) and a debut at Royal Danish Opera (The Magic Flute).

Highlights of McCreesh’s recent seasons include a tour with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, and concerts with Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Vancouver Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic and Norwegian Opera Orchestra.

The 2002-3 season includes concerts with l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Paris), WDR Cologne, Australian Youth Orchestra, Israel Camerata, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

September 2002/293 words

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