Alexander Walker (conductor)

Alexander Walker (born 1973) is a British conductor.

Biography

Education

Walker was educated at the Royal Grammar School High Wycombe.[1] He played double bass for the National Youth Orchestra between 1990 and 1992[2] and later obtained a degree in music at Bristol University, where he studied composition privately with John Gardner and later with Raymond Warren.[3] Following the completion of post-graduate studies in Double Bass in 1996 at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London,[4] Walker studied with Ilya Musin at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

Career

In 2000/01 Walker conducted the English Touring Opera's production of the Magic Flute,[5] and on 27 November 2004 the Chelsea Opera Group (UK) in Glinka's A Life for the Tsar at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.[6] In November 2005 he conducted the Prague Philharmonia,[7] and in the winter season 2005/6 Walker conducted three performances of The Nutcracker for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,[8] and Swan Lake for a production which premiered on 23/10/2009 for the Finnish National Ballet.[9] He appeared at the Oundle International Festival in 2009[10] and again in 2011 where he conducted the premiere of Prophet and Loss by Julian Grant.[11] In 2010 he conducted the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra,[12] and in 2011 two concerts with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.[13][14] In October 2011 he conducted a Gershwin Gala with the Russian Philharmonic.[15] He has also conducted the Symphony Orchestra New Russia,[16] the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest,[17] and the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra.[18]

Walker is known for conducting amateur and youth orchestras. He has been the conductor of the Berkshire Youth Orchestra, The Purcell School Symphony Orchestra, The Norfolk Symphony Orchestra, the Northampton Symphony Orchestra, The Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra, is the musical director of the Abingdon and District Musical Society and between Sep 2014 and March 2015, the musical director of Kingston Philharmonia. Walker is an aural teacher at the Royal Academy of Music.[19] He conducts the Surrey County Youth Orchestra.

Discography

References

  1. ↑ "Newsletter May 2007" (PDF). RGS. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Alumni 1990s". National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "alexanderwalker.org". Retrieved 25 November 2011.Self-Published source
  4. ↑ "Guildhall School News Spring/Summer 2013". Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Magic Flute". UK Theatre Web. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "Glinka A Life for the Tsar". Seen and Heard International. Musicweb. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "pkf.cz/uploads" (PDF). Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "Alexander Walker". Royal Opera House Collections Online. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Finnish National Opera - Season 2009" (PDF). Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  10. ↑ "Opera in Britain". Opera (October 2009): 83. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Prophet and Loss". Julian Grant. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  12. ↑ "Radio 3 Listings". Radio Lists Weekly Listings for BBC Radio 3 supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  13. ↑ "Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Elgar Birthday Concert". UK Theatre Web. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  14. ↑ "'Enigma Variations'". Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  15. ↑ "Gershwin Gala". Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  16. ↑ "Tchaikovsky Hall/Ingres". Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  17. ↑ "Naxos/Alexander Walker - bio. albums". Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  18. ↑ "Naxos/Alexander Walker - bio, albums". Retrieved 22 April 2015.
  19. ↑ "Conducting Staff". Royal Academy of Music. Retrieved 25 April 2015.

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