Harry Christophers

Harry Christophers is known internationally as founder and conductor of The Sixteen as well as a regular guest conductor for many of the major symphony orchestras and opera companies worldwide. He has directed The Sixteen and its orchestra throughout Europe, America and the Far East gaining a distinguished reputation for his work in Renaissance, Baroque and 20th century music. He has made a significant contribution to the recording catalogue (already comprising some 90 titles) for which he has won numerous awards including a Grand Prix du Disque for Handel Messiah, numerous Schallplattenkritik, the coveted Gramophone Award for Early Music and most recently, the prestigious Classical Brit Award 2005 for his disc entitled Renaissance. His CD IKON has recently been nominated for a 2007 Grammy. In 2000 he instituted the ‘Choral Pilgrimage’, a national tour of English cathedrals from York to Canterbury in music from the pre-Reformation, as The Sixteen’s contribution to the millennium celebrations. It raised awareness of this historic repertoire so successfully that the Choral Pilgrimage in the UK is now central to the annual artistic programme. The seventh Choral Pilgrimage in 2007 concentrates on music from the Sistine Chapel whilst in 2008 the Pilgrimage will feature Treasures of Tudor England.

As a guest conductor, Harry Christophers enjoys a very special partnership with the BBC Philharmonic including a disc of American-inspired works by Ives, Stravinsky, Poulenc and Tippett which won a Diapason d'Or. He is also a regular guest conductor with the Deutsches Kammerphilharmonie, City of London Sinfonia, Boston's Handel and Haydn Society, the Granada Symphony Orchestra and the Orquestra de la Comunidad de Madrid who have all benefited from his dynamic brand of programming. He recently made his debut with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the Hallé, the London Symphony Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony, with whom he will be returning in 2008.

Increasingly busy in opera, he began a Monteverdi cycle in 1998, in new productions for Lisbon Opera House, with Il Ritorno d'Ulisse, following his success there with Gluck Orfeo. In 2000, he conducted Mozart Die Zauberflöte for the Lisbon Opera as well as Purcell King Arthur and Rameau Platée and made an acclaimed debut with English National Opera, conducting Monteverdi Coronation of Poppea. He has since conducted productions of Gluck Orfeo and Handel Ariodante at ENO as well as the UK premiere of Messager opera Fortunio for Grange Park Opera. After the outstanding success of Handel Semele and Hercules at Buxton Opera in past seasons, he returned in 2005 to conduct a new production of Mozart Ascanio in Alba. In 2006, Mozart's anniversary year, he conducted a new production of Mitridate for the Granada Festival. In 2008, he will be conducting a new production of Handel Samson for Buxton Opera.

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