Peter Selwyn Conductors
A remarkable debut this summer for Opera Holland Park, conducting Hänsel und Gretel, has consolidated Peter Selwyn’s position as one of the most talented of a new generation of British conductors.
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A remarkable debut this summer for Opera Holland Park, conducting Hänsel und Gretel, has consolidated Peter Selwyn’s position as one of the most talented of a new generation of British conductors. Highlights of his current and future schedule include conducting the Orchestra dell’ Teatro Comunale di Bologna at the Festival delle Nazioni in Umbria, performances in Nürnberg and London of Mahler´s 4th Symphony, Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Nürnberg and conducting several performances of Carmen for Welsh National Opera in 2010.
Peter has enjoyed success across a wide repertoire, assisting and conducting at many of Europe’s premier opera venues, including the Aldeburgh, Bregenz and Batignano Festivals, Hamburg, Oslo, Strasbourg and the Bayreuther Festspiele – where he worked for three seasons as assistant to Adam Fischer and Giuseppe Sinopoli on the centenary Ring Cycle.
From 1999 to 2004 he worked as Kapellmeister and Head of Music at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, where he conducted a wide repertoire, including Peter Grimes, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Carmen, La Bohème, Cosi fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, La Cenerentola, Orfeo ed Euridice, Iphigenie en Tauride, Hänsel und Gretel and Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor; there he also assisted GMD Philippe Auguin on productions including Ring Cycle, Meistersinger, Fidelio, Salome and Pelléas et Mélisande.
Other conducting highlights include Romeo et Juliette for Opera North, Jenufa and La Cenerentola for English Touring Opera, A Little Night Music for the Stadttheater Fürth, Madama Butterfly and Die Zauberflöte for European Chamber Opera, Don Giovanni for Pimlico Opera, as well as La Gioconda, Macbeth, La forza del destino and Die Fledermaus for companies throughout the British Isles.
For the European Opera Centre he conducted the first performances in Hungary of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. He has also conducted numerous world premières – Hear Our Voice by Jonathan Dove in London, Nürnberg and at the Prague State Opera, for English National Opera’s Baylis Programme operas by Alec Roth, David Knotts and Todd Macneal in London and Australia, for Blackheath Concert Halls the community opera The Uninvited by Julian Grant and for London Children’s Ballet Jane Eyre by Julia Gomelskaya.
He is much in demand with orchestras and ensembles both in Europe and the UK, appearing with the Nürnberger Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, City of London Sinfonia, Orchestra of Opera North and the Endymion Ensemble. He is regular guest conductor of the Symphonieorchester der Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, and continues to enjoy long-standing collaborations with conductors such as Paul Daniel, David Parry, Carlo Rizzi and Günter Neuhold.
Born in London, he studied at the Mannheim/Heidelberg Hochschule für Musik before going to St. John’s College, Cambridge to read Modern Languages. He went on to study piano with Geoffrey Pratley and Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music, and conducting with David Parry. In the UK he worked as chief repetiteur for English National Opera, and has been a regular member of music staff at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, assisting and playing for many of the world’s great singers and conductors, including Plácido Domingo, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Valerij Gergiev and Sir Georg Solti.
He is co-founder and Artistic Director of the Internationales KammermusikFestival Nürnberg, for whom he has conducted The Rape of Lucretia, which was broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk, The Turn of the Screw, Noye´s Fludde, Dido and Aeneas, The Soldier´s Tale and, most recently, the premiere of das babylonexperiment by Matthew King. He is also a Professor at the Royal College of Music.
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