Ivor Bolton
Ivor Bolton (born May 17, 1958 in Blackrod, Lancashire , England ) is a British conductor .
life and work
Bolton studied at Cambridge University , the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio in London. In 1984 he founded St. James's Baroque Players . From 1992 to 1997 he was music director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera , and from 1994 to 1996 chief conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra . From autumn 2004 to 2015/16 he was chief conductor of the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg . In 2015 Bolton became music director of the Madrid Opera on a five-year contract. Ivor Bolton has been chief conductor of the Dresden Festival Orchestra since it was founded in 2012 .
Starting with the 2016/17 season, Bolton is bound as chief conductor of the Basel Symphony Orchestra for four years .
Ivor Bolton has a son with his wife, Tess Knighton, a musicologist and critic. The couple live in Barcelona .
Awards
- 1998: Bavarian Theater Prize
- 2016: Great Merit of the State of Salzburg
Fonts
- Leopold II : a lover of the opera seria . Some details about the world premiere of Mozart's “ La clemenza di Tito ” . Bavarian State Opera, Munich 1999, OBV .
- Structured improvisation in the sense of Monteverdi . For the Munich version of “ Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria ” . In: Hanspeter Krellmann (Ed.): The modern composer builds on truth . Metzler, Stuttgart (inter alia) 2003, ISBN 3-476-01946-2 , pp. 44-47.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ivor Bolton becomes chief conductor of the Basel Symphony Orchestra . In: derstandard.at , June 30, 2015, accessed on August 1, 2016.
- ↑ The Board of Directors has acknowledged the great artistic qualities and international projection of Ivor Bolton. (...) . (English). In: teatro-real.com , accessed on August 1, 2016.
- ↑ DrehPunktKultur: Honor for the future honorary conductor
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bolton, Ivor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th May 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blackrod |