| Biography |
This season Robin O'Neill will be conducting, amongst
others, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the BBC
Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra (including
recordings for the Hyperion label). He is Principal Conductor of Orchestra
Citta Aperta, L'Aquila, Italy and Music Director of The Motion Arts
Group.
In the past few seasons he has conducted the English Chamber Orchestra both at
London's South Bank Centre and at several English Summer Festivals and gave the
opening gala concert in the newly refurbished Windsor Castle. He made his debut
conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Rimini Festival 2000 and will conduct
them twice in the Queen Elizabeth Hall this year. Last year he conducted them
to huge critical acclaim at the Old Vic Theatre in a Motion Arts Group production
of Stravinsky’s ‘Soldier’s Tale' starring Jeremy Irons and
Hugh Dancey.
Robin O’Neill and stage director Andrew Steggall (The Motion Arts Group)
have developed a new production of this work using Iraqi actors and musicians
alongside British and other nationalities in a unique collaboration involving
education, photography, TV documentary and performance. Robin O’Neill travelled
to Baghdad last year and used his experiences there to explore the effects of
war on the people of Iraq and to build meaningful and sustainable relations between
artists from different backgrounds and cultures. The Iraq/Soldier’s Tale
showed at the Old Vic Theatre in January and will tour throughout the Middle
East .
Over the last few years Robin O’Neill has regularly broadcast on the BBC,
Japan Broadcasting Corporation and Swedish Radio and has conducted, amongst others,
the Stavanger Symphony, the City of London Sinfonia and the Orchestra Ensemble
Kanazawa Japan.
Last year Robin O'Neill and the Orchestra Citta Aperta made a live DVD recording
of The Dream of Urizen as part of an ongoing survey of the music of the celebrated
Italian composer Carlo Crivelli. They will tour this work extensively next year.
Robin O’Neill was music director for Carlo Crivelli’s sound track
for the 2006 Berlin Film Festival award winning Chinese film “Little Red
Flower” by Zhang Yuan.
Robin O'Neill is a Grammy nominated recording artist with more than thirty CD's
to his name with labels such as Sony, Philips, Decca and Hyperion. As a chamber
musician he has worked with partners such as Mikhail Pletnev, Mitsuko Uchida,
Noriko Ogawa, Christoph Eschenbach, Pascal Roge, Boris Beresovsky, Aleksander
Madzar, Barry Douglas, Elizabeth Leonskaya, Stephen Kovasovich, Howard Shelley,
Pinchas Zuckerman, Salvatore Accardo, Michael Collins and Isabelle van Keulen.
He has performed by invitation in front of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales.
During his career as a bassoonist Robin O'Neill worked with all of the worlds
finest conductors (including Karajan, Giulini, Solti, Abbado, Levine, Kubelik,
Boulez, Muti, Barenboim, Sanderling, Svetlanov and Gergiev) both as soloist and
orchestral principal. |
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