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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
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The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is an English orchestra. The orchestra originally was based in Bournemouth, but is now based now in the adjacent town of Poole, after the orchestra's former home in the Winter Gardens concert hall was demolished in May 2006. In Poole, the orchestra performs at the Poole Arts Centre, later renamed the Lighthouse Centre for Performing Arts, where the concert hall has 1596 seats.
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It was originally the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra, which was founded in 1893 as a small group of wind players. It quickly expanded to become a full orchestra and gained a name for championing contemporary British music. Elgar and Holst (among others) conducted the orchestra in their own works.
The orchestra changed names in 1954, while Charles Groves was its principal conductor. In addition to its roster of principal conductors, other conductors affiliated with the orchestra have included George Hurst, who served as de facto principal conductor from 1969 to 1972, between the tenures of Constantin Silvestri and Paavo Berglund, without having been formally appointed to the post. Simon Rattle was "conductor in residence" from 1974 to 1976 in one of his earliest orchestra affiliations.
In more recent years, Kees Bakels has served as the orchestra's chief guest conductor (1990-2000) and Richard Hickox as principal guest conductor (1992-1995). From September 2002, Marin Alsop has served as the orchestra's principal conductor. She is scheduled to step down from this post in 2008.[1] In November 2007, the orchestra announced the appointment of the Ukranian conductor Kirill Karabits as their next principal conductor.[2] Karabits is scheduled to serve as the orchestra's Principal Conductor-Designate for the 2008-2009 season, and to become Principal Conductor full-time with the 2009-2010 season.[3]
In 1968, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta was founded. Despite considerable artistic acclaim as a small orchestra, funding difficulties led to its sudden closure in November 1999.
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra currently gives around 150 concerts a year. Many highly acclaimed recordings include Deryck Cooke's completion of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 10, conducted by Simon Rattle, Elgar's "In The South" with Silvestri, Tchaikovsky's 2nd piano concerto with Rudolf Barshai and Peter Donohoe, and more recently Elgar's 3rd Symphony with Paul Daniel, and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with Marin Alsop.
The orchestra performs regularly in the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and in the other great halls of the world, such as the Carnegie Hall in New York and the Musikverein, Vienna.
- 1893-1934: Sir Dan Godfrey
- 1934-1939: Richard Austin
- 1939-1947: Montague Birch
- 1947-1951: Rudolf Schwarz
- 1951-1961: Sir Charles Groves
- 1962-1969: Constantin Silvestri
- 1972-1979: Paavo Berglund
- 1980-1982: Uri Segal
- 1982-1988: Rudolf Barshai
- 1988-1994: Andrew Litton
- 1995-2000: Yakov Kreizberg
- 2002-present: Marin Alsop
- ^ "'I don’t need to be liked, I’d rather be respected'", The Times, 9 February 2007. Retrieved on 2007-09-08.
- ^ James Inverne. "Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra names new chief conductor", Gramophone, 23 November 2007. Retrieved on 2007-11-24.
- ^ Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (29 November 2007). Karabits appointed new Principal Conductor. Press release. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
See Grammy awards in Wikipedia: "Grammy Awards of 1997: Andrew Litton (conductor), Neville Creed, David Hill (chorus masters) & the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Chorus for Walton: Belshazzar's Feast"