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BIOGRAPHY<br />
2001 Hyperion disc of choral works, including new Mass, marks<br />
MacMillan as a leading choral composer. Conducting<br />
activities increasing, including 2001/02 concerts with<br />
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Residentie Orkest and<br />
Rotterdam Philharmonic.<br />
2002 Tryst choreographed by Christopher Weeldon at Royal<br />
Ballet Covent Garden. Series of choral performances in<br />
Philadelphia includes US premiere of Quickening. South<br />
Bank Show feature on ITV, directed by Robert Bee.<br />
2003 First performances of Symphony No.3: ‘Silence’, inspired<br />
by the book by Shusaku Endo, in Tokyo, London and<br />
Amsterdam. Colin Currie gives 300th performance of<br />
Veni, Veni, Emmanuel. A Scotch Bestiary commissioned to<br />
inaugurate new organ at Walt Disney Hall and premiered by<br />
Wayne Marshall and Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted<br />
by Esa-Pekka Salonen.<br />
2004 Conducts premiere at New York City Ballet of Piano<br />
Concerto No.2, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon<br />
as Shambards. Other conducting engagements in Japan,<br />
Australia, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and Switzerland.<br />
Awarded a CBE.<br />
2005 Major retrospective presented by BBC Symphony<br />
Orchestra at Barbican in London, with 27 works performed.<br />
Embarks on second full-length opera, The Sacrifice, to<br />
a libretto by Michael Symmons Roberts, commissioned by<br />
Welsh National Opera.<br />
2006 Conducts Quickening in New Zealand and Seven Last<br />
Words at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. First<br />
performances of Sun-Dogs at Indiana University, Three<br />
Choirs Festival, and Soundstreams Canada. Features at St<br />
Magnus and Cheltenham Festivals.<br />
2007 The Sacrifice is premiered in Cardiff, tours to seven cities<br />
in the UK, and wins the Royal Philharmonic Society Award<br />
for opera and music theatre.<br />
2008 Sir Colin Davis conducts premiere of St John Passion with<br />
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.<br />
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