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| Anna Bonitatibus Mark Elder Festival de Valloires Fretwork "George Enescu" International Festival and Competition Nelson Goerner Hallé London Handel Festival Andrew Litton . | London Philharmonic Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Record Label Kazushi Ono Minnesota Orchestra Scottish Ensemble Wigmore Hall Wigmore Hall Live Jaap van Zweden |
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Anna Bonitatibus | website |
| Italian mezzo-soprano Anna Bonitatibus will sing Cherubino in the Royal Opera House’s production of Le nozze di Figaro this Summer. She has also recently recorded a CD of Haydn songs, scheduled for release on Sony Classical in 2009. |
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Mark Elder | website |
| Mark Elder’s UK engagements beyond his relationship with the Hallé, notably his regular appearances at the Royal Opera, are also supported by VBPR. |
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Festival de Valloires | website |
| 8-13 August 2008 marks the third Festival de Valloires -- an annual chamber music Festival taking place at the Abbaye de Valloires in Picardy, Northern France, directed by BBC producer Adam Gatehouse. The 2008 programme will focus on the music of Schubert and Britten, and feature artists including Imogen Cooper, Mark Padmore, Ian Bostridge, Cedric Tiberghien, Paul Lewis, the Vienna Piano Trio, the Belcea Quartet and Dutch mezzo soprano Christianne Stotijn. |
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Fretwork | website |
| Fretwork are the world’s leading consort of viols and have been performing all over the world for over 20 years. The Ensemble are releasing a disc in July on Harmonia Mundi centred around the Jewish musicians that came to England in the 16th century to work for Henry VIII. The programme finishes with a contemporary work by Orlando Gough's 'Birds on Fire' and will be performed at the Wigmore Hall on 14 September. |
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"George Enescu" International Festival and Competition | website |
| The biennial "George Enescu" International Festival and Competition next takes place in September 2009 in Bucharest. Run by the Romanian Ministry of Culture, the festival features three weeks of performances by high profile international orchestras and artists, as well as numerous Romanian artists and ensembles. |
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Nelson Goerner | website |
| The Argentinian-born pianist Nelson Goerner performs Brahms with the LPO (30 May) and Beethoven with the CBSO (11/13 July). His imminent concerto release on EMI is a new work by a composer with connections outside the classical mainstream – Jon Lord, formerly a member of the seminal rock band Deep Purple. |
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Hallé | website |
| Under its Music Director, Mark Elder, the Hallé has entered a new golden era, marked by imaginatively themed programming and the successful launch of its own record label. In the 2007/08 season, Britain’s longest established professional symphony orchestra, celebrates its 150th anniversary. |
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London Handel Festival | website |
| Centred on Handel’s own church, St George’s, Hanover Square, the London Handel Festival draws on both professional and student performers to place the composer’s vast opus in an illuminating context. |
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Andrew Litton | website |
| Andrew Litton stepped down in May 2006 as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony. He continues as Music Director Emeritus of the Dallas Symphony and also remains Conductor Laureate of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He is in his fourth season as the first American Music Director of Norway's Bergen Philharmonic, a 242-year-old orchestra once led by Edvard Grieg. |
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London Philharmonic Orchestra | website |
| The London Philharmonic Orchestra moved back into the refurbished Royal Festival Hall in June 2007. Vladimir Jurowski succeeded Kurt Masur as Principal Conductor in September, and the Orchestra celebrated its 75th Anniversary in October. The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s record label now has a catalogue of 30 recordings, including three special 75th Anniversary Box Set editions. The London Philharmonic Orchestra has been a VBPR client since 2003. |
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Kazushi Ono | website |
| The conductor Kazushi Ono makes his debut this summer at Glyndebourne in the Festival’s first ever production of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, 20 July – 29 August 2008. Kazushi is in his final season as Music Director of La Monnaie in Brussels and in the autumn takes over as Principal Conductor of the Opéra de Lyon. |
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Minnesota Orchestra | website |
| The Minnesota Orchestra under its Music Director Osmo Vänskä return to London for a performance at London’s Barbican on 24 February 2009. The final disc of the orchestra’s recordings of the complete Beethoven Symphonies for BIS will be released this Autumn. This is the fifth project that VBPR has handled for the Minnesota Orchestra, following previous consultancies in 1998, 2000, 2004 and 2006. |
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Scottish Ensemble | website |
| The Scottish Ensemble are a unique string ensemble, who perform standing, without a conductor. Led by its Artistic Director Jonathan Morton, the Ensemble perform regularly at Wigmore Hall, in addition to its performances in Scotland. A live recording of the Scottish Ensemble, with the tenor Toby Spence, has recently been released on the Wigmore Hall Live label. |
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Wigmore Hall | website |
| The UK’s leading venue for chamber music and song, Wigmore Hall has been a VBPR client since 1993. The CD label Wigmore Hall Live was launched in Autumn 2005. |
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Jaap van Zweden | website |
| Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden is Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestras, and Music Director Designate of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. |
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