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Studied trombone and singing at Royal College of Music. Currently Music Director of the Oxford University Sinfonietta, City of Cambridge Band and the professional choir The Gentlemen of the Chappell.
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Schools:
University of London - Royal College of Music
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
Philharmonia Orchestra
Position:
Trombonist
Time period:
January 1973 - Present
Description:
In 1973 he joined the Philharmonia Orchestra as a trombonist, five years later along with other Philharmonia players, John Wallace, John Miller, Michael Thompson and John Jenkins he formed and was Artistic Director of the brass quintet, Equale Brass. This ensemble made seven records, toured world-wide, and commissioned twenty seven new works from composers as diverse as David Bedford, Peter Skellern, Roger Smalley and John Taverner. He has given masterclasses in the Sibelius Akademy, Helsinki, Royal Swedish Academy, Paris Conservatoire, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney Conservatoires and has received invitations to lecture at the Cambridge, Duke, Indiana, Open, Oxford, Queen's (Belfast), Salford, Trinity and York Universities
Employer:
Oxford University Sinfonietta, City of Cambridge Band and the professional choir The Gentlemen of the Chappell
Position:
Music Director
Employer:
Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort and Players
Position:
Assistant conductor
Description:
He was assistant conductor conductor to Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort and Players on his award winning Venetian Coronation and Music at San Rocco and Sir John Eliot Gardiner for his Berlioz Romeo and Juliet recording projects. In his home country, Great Britain, he has conducted at the Royal Festival Hall in the Royal Philharmonic OrchestraÕs International Series and at the Royal Albert Hall in a BBC Promenade Concert and at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. In addition he has made several Festival appearances at Aldeburgh, Chester, Greenwich, Nottingham, the Three Choirs (Worcester Cathedral), as well as performances abroad with the Helsinki Philharmonic, Royal Danish Academy Symphony and Royal Oman Symphony.
Employer:
RCM Chamber Choir
Position:
Conductor
Description:
He has conducted a number of concerts with the RCM Chamber Choir (including the first performance in modern times of BeethovenÕs Trauerklange), introduced a standing RCM Symphony Orchestra to an historically aware performance of Berlioz and directed the Baroque Orchestra in performances of three of BachÕs Brandenberg Concertos at Buckingham Palace. In January 1995 he was one of the first conductors to appear at the newly built Paris concert hall, CitŽ de la Musique. He returned to this major Paris venue in July 1998 to conduct two concerts with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band to ecstatic reviews and high profile TV coverage. He has conducted the City of Rochester Symphony Orchestra, the Redhill Sinfonia, the Imperial College Symphony Orchestra, the Warwick University Symphony Orchestra and Ulster Youth Orchestra.
Employer:
Performances
Position:
Conductor
Description:
A champion of new music he has commissioned and conducted the first performances of Tim Souster`s Echoes (Manchester/BBC Radio 3), Joseph Horovitz`s Tuba Concerto (Nottingham Festival) and Andrew Powell's 'Falstaff: Theme and Episodes' (Paris, CitŽ de la Musique), Chris BatchelorÕs Weasel Words & Winning Ways, Max Charles DaviesÕs Laudes, Simon DobsonÕs Four Britten Sketches, Gabriella SwallowÕs Spit, Esa-Pekka SalonenÕs Stockholm Diary and Ivor BonniciÕs Three Movements for Chamber Orchestra.
Employer:
Royal College of Music
Position:
Professor of Trombone and Sackbut and Head of Brass
Time period:
December 2004
EDUCATION
University:
University of London - Royal College of Music
Degree:
Trombone and singing
PUBLICATIONS
Articles:
Peter Bassano is a regular contributor to a number of music journals and has published research on topics as diverse as Beethoven, Byrd, Shakespeare and Veronese and is currently writing a book on the trombone for the Menuhin series of orchestral instruments.
INFORMATION
Awards:
He has been an external brass examiner for Birmingham Conservatoire, the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music and adjudicated for the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the Royal Over Seas League competition.
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