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Andrew Parrott, Musical Director and Principal Conductor of the London Mozart Players is the newly-appointed Music Director of the period-instrument New York Collegium. Conductor Andrew Parrott is perhaps best known for his pioneering recordings of pre-classical repertory from Machaut to Handel, principally for EMI with the London-based Taverner Consort, Choir and Players, which he founded in 1973. He has also published major articles on Monteverdi, Purcell and Bach, and is co-editor of the 700-page New Oxford Book of Carols (1992) and author of The Essential Bach Choir (2000; German translation: Bachs Chor: Zum neuen Verständnis 2003). Parrott’s musical range is broader still, however, and the past few years have seen him conducting Mozart in Barcelona and Toronto, Don Giovanni on tour in Japan, Beethoven in New York and Stockholm, the Missa Solemnis in Switzerland, Stravinsky at the BBC’s London Proms and in Flanders, Bach in Germany, Canada and the United States, renaissance music and Monteverdi in Edinburgh, baroque music in Prague and new music in Bratislava. Contemporary music has always been an important part of Parrott’s work and for several years he was an assistant to Sir Michael Tippett. He conducted the premiere of Judith Weir’s A Night at the Chinese Opera (which he has also recorded for NMC with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra) and has made CDs of new music by other British composers (including John Tavener), by Vladimír Godár (with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra) and by Arvo Pärt. |
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