Gulliver Ralston
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Gulliver Ralston (born in 1978) is a British musician living in Oxford, UK.
[edit] Education
Ralston was born in 1978 and was a chorister in the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. After completing his secondary education at Eton College he read music at New College, Oxford, where he held an alto choral scholarship. After graduating he won a graduate award to write a D.Phil on Richard Wagner at St Peter's College, Oxford where he was Director of Musical Performance from 2003 to 2005.
[edit] Musical career
In 2000, Ralston co-founded Hand Made Opera, and has toured extensively with them, conducting Cosi fan Tutte, Die Entfuhrung, The Barber of Seville, La Boheme and Eight Songs for a Mad King. He was Musical Director of the Howden Arts Festival in 2002, co-edited Wagner in 2003 and in 2004 appeared on television conducting The National Orchestra of Malta.
He has worked as a singer, conductor and pianist with many ensembles in Oxford, including New Chamber Opera (Dido and Aeneas and The Marriage of Figaro), The Band of Instruments (Bach B Minor Mass), Musica Humana, The Brabant Ensemble, The Orchestra of Mary Magdalen, The Oxford Handel Orchestra (Messiah), and as Director of Music at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
He has worked for two seasons with the Berkshire Choral Festival, and has taught on courses for singers in Umbria and Puglia. In 2006, he will be working as assistant conductor and repetiteur at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, reviving The Marriage of Figaro for Opera in the Orchard (Essex), Eight Songs for a Mad King for the Sounds New Festival in Canterbury, and Gianni Schicchi for Hand Made Opera in Italy. He studies with Nicoletta Conti in Bologna.
Ralston also performs as a cabaret artist and has worked extensively with the baritone Colin Baldy. He has appeared at London's West End, the Aldeburgh Festival, Canterbury Festival, Howden Festival, Theatre Royal Margate, the Mananan Festival and Government House (Isle of Man), Ipswich Festival, High Barn, Opera in the Orchard, for The National Trust at Clivedon, venues in Petersfield and Clacton, and at Westminster Abbey. The two have appeared on tours for P & O Cruises (Mediterranean and Middle East), and been featured on Gulf Radio, BBC Radio Berkshire and BBC Radio Yorkshire.
