Mayor's Concert Programme.pdf - Milton Keynes City Orchestra

95003 May 2011 programme text.qxd:Layout 2 11/5/11 08:24 Page 8Sian EdwardsPrincipal ConductorSian Edwards studied at the Royal Northern Collegeof Music and with Professor A.I. Musin at theLeningrad Conservatoire. She has worked with manyof the world’s leading orchestras including LosAngeles Philharmonic, Cleveland, Orchestre de Paris,Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Berlin Symphony, theFrankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, MDR Leipzig,Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic,Finnish Radio Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic,Royal Flanders Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, theHallé, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.She has a close relationship with Ensemble Modern inGermany.She made her operatic debut in 1986 conductingWeill’s Mahagonny for Scottish Opera and her RoyalOpera House debut in 1988 with Tippett’s The KnotGarden. From 1993 to 1995 she was Music Directorof English National Opera for whom her repertoireincluded Khovanshchina, Jenufa, Queen of Spadesand Blond Eckbert (also recorded on Collins). For theGlyndebourne Festival she has conducted La Traviataand the Ravel Double Bill, and for GlyndebourneTouring Opera Katya Kabanova and Tippett’s NewYear. She conducted the world premiere of MarkAnthony Turnage’s Greek at the Munich Biennale in1988. Recent engagements have included the worldpremiere of Hans Gefors’ Clara for the Opéra Comique in Paris, Cosi fan tutte in Aspen, her return to English NationalOpera for Eugene Onegin, Don Giovanni in Copenhagen, Damnation de Faust in Helsinki, Peter Grimes andTchaikovsky Queen of Spades in Frankfurt; Previn A Streetcar Named Desire and Heggie Dead Man Walking at theTheater an der Wien, Weir A Night at the Chinese Opera for Scottish Opera, Jenufa for Welsh National Opera, Hanseland Gretel for the Royal Academy of Music, Aquarius by Karel Goegvaerts for Flanders Opera, a new ballet, Orlando,for the Staatstheater Stuttgart and, most recently, The Rape of Lucretia for the Theater an der Wien.Sian Edwards’ recordings include Peter and the Wolf, Britten’s Young Person’s Guide, and Tchaikovsky’s 5thSymphony, all with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert with English National Opera.Recent and future concert engagements include the Ensemble Modern, Bayerische Rundfunk in Munich, SWRSinfonieorchester Freiburg, Kuopio Symphony, Turku Philharmonic, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, MiltonKeynes City Orchestra, Palestinian Youth Orchestra, Edinburgh Youth Orchestra, Musikfabrik, London Sinfonietta,BBC National Orchestra of Wales, concerts at the Edinburgh International Festival as well as a UK tour with the RoyalPhilharmonic Orchestra to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. She has also recently taken part in a new filmby Tony Palmer on Holst. Future operatic engagements include The Rake’s Progress for Scottish Opera and AMidsummer Night’s Dream for the Royal Danish Opera.8Great Music LIVE.