Sian Edwards

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Sian Edwards (born May 27, 1959 or August 27, 1959 in West Sussex , Great Britain ) is a British horn player , conductor and former music director of the English National Opera , London . It is particularly in demand internationally for the repertoire of modernism and contemporary music.

Life and professional history

Some sources, including the renowned Munzinger archive , cite May 27, 1959 as the date of birth, others August 27, 1959. She began taking piano lessons at the age of four. The horn was later added as a second instrument , which Edwards studied together with conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in London . After she decided to concentrate on conducting, she studied conducting with Charles Groves and Norman Del Mar . From 1983 to 1985 she received a scholarship to conduct at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Ilja Musin .

Edwards made her operatic debut in Glasgow in 1986 with Mahagonny by Kurt Weill , when she represented Simon Rattle . In 1988, she headed the Royal Opera House , the performance of The Knot Garden by Michael Tippett and enriched in the same year the first Munich Biennale with the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera Greek .

In 1992 she married the divorced British musicologist and composer Ian Kemp . The marriage produced a son. Iam Kemp died in 2011.

From 1993 to 1995 Sian Edwards was music director of the English National Opera , London . In this position she had, among other things, the world premiere of Blond Eckbert by the composer Judith Weir .

Edwards teaches conducting at the Royal Academy of Music .

Activities (selection)

Opera directors

Sian Edwards has conducted numerous operas at the English National Opera : The Player by Sergei Prokofjew (1889/1990), Queen of Spades by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1992/1993) and during her time as music director La Bohème , Jenůfa , Die Hochzeit des Figaro , Der blonde Eckbert (opera by Judith Weir based on the art fairy tale Der blonde Eckbert by Ludwig Tieck ), Der Mikado , Chowanschtschina , Mahagonny and Carmen (1993 to 1995).

Guest conductors (selection)

Numerous guest conductors as a concert conductor with extensive guest appearances made Sian Edwards internationally known. She has conducted the following well-known orchestras: Royal Philharmonic , Royal Liverpool Philharmonic , BBC Philharmonic , Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra , Royal Scottish National , London Mozart Players , Ulster Orchestra , English Chamber Orchestra , Los Angeles Philharmonic , Philadelphia Orchestra , Orchester de Paris , Ensemble Modern , Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt , Cleveland Orchestra , Berlin Symphony Orchestra , Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie , Saint Petersburg Philharmonic , National Symphony Orchestra , Washington, Ensemble Resonanz , Cologne, SWF Symphony Orchestra , NDR Symphony Orchestra , Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra .

Other guest conductors have taken Edwards to Paris (premiere of Hans Gefors' Clara at the Opéra-Comique ), Covent Garden ( Rigoletto , The Troubadour , Madame Butterfly ), to Bordeaux ( La clemenza di Tito ) and to the Glyndebourne Touring Opera ( The Bartered Bride ).

2000: Eugene Onegin at the English National Opera , London

2001: The Death of Klinghoffer by John Adams at the Finnish National Opera , Don Giovanni at the Copenhagen Opera , at the Frankfurt Britten's Peter Grimes Opera and at the Helsinki Opera La damnation de Faust .

Recording activity and broadcasting

In addition, Sian Edwards has made recordings and radio recordings with European broadcasters. In Germany she worked regularly with the Hessischer Rundfunk , among others .

Awards

In 1984 Sian Edwards won first prize in the conducting competition in Leeds , Great Britain .

Repertoire focus

Sian Edwards has mastered the orchestral and operatic repertoire in its entirety. While her focus in the opera repertoire is on the works of the 18th and 20th centuries, in the concert area she made a name for herself primarily in the performance of contemporary music for all ensembles .

Discography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i female conductors. In: dirigentinnen.de. Retrieved August 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Sian Edwards in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. ↑ Jörg Jewanski:  Edwards, Sian. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, supplement for both parts. Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7618-1139-9  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  4. ^ Site Buddha Web Design: Siân Edwards - Opera Scotland. In: operascotland.org. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Sian Edwards in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
  6. ↑ a b c Blankenburg, Elke Mascha .: Female conductors in the 20th century: portraits from Marin Alsop to Simone Young . European Publishing House, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-434-50536-9 , pp. 89 ff .
  7. ^ Greek - Munich Biennale. In: archive.muenchener-biennale.de. June 17, 1988. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Ian Kemp. In: telegraph.co.uk. September 29, 2011, accessed July 28, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Klassik heute : Hans Gefors: works, biography, discography, texts in Klassik heute. In: Klassik-heute.com. July 30, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017 .
  10. ↑ a b Sian Edwards at Bach Cantatas (English)
  11. ↑ Blond Eckbert - NMC Recordings. In: nmcrec.co.uk. October 1, 2005, accessed July 30, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Edwards, Sian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British musician, conductor and music director
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1959 or August 27, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH West Chiltington , West Sussex , UK