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Geoffrey Paterson

Conductor

  • The Theseus Ensemble, conducted by the impressive Geoffrey Paterson, played with manifest stylish fluency
    Paul Driver, The Sunday Times
  • His handling of the score was remarkable... The storm interlude could hardly have been more terrifying, nor the ending more hauntingly melancholic
    Jo Kirkbride, Opera Magazine
  • it was Geoffrey Paterson’s handling of Britten’s score which pointed towards an accomplished conductor in the making
    Antony Lias, Opera Britannia

  • Geoffrey Paterson read Music at Cambridge, studying composition with Alexander Goehr, and subsequently as a conductor with Peter Stark in London, Alasdair Mitchell at the RSAMD, Diego Masson in Dartington and Peter Eötvös and Pierre Boulez in Lucerne, before training at the National Opera Studio as a répétiteur. In 2009 he was awarded First Prize at the Ninth Leeds Conductors Competition, where he also won the audience prize. In 2010 he joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, where he has worked as assistant to Antonio Pappano and Rory Macdonald and conducted staged excerpts from Death in Venice with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera.

    He has worked on the music staff of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, The Opera Group and British Youth Opera. He made his debut at Opera North conducting La bohème and has also conducted Don Giovanni at Iford Opera Festival, Julian Philips’ Followers at Glyndebourne and Peter Grimes in Cambridge.

    He has recently given concerts with the Manchester Camerata and Hamburg Symphony Orchestra and has worked in workshops and competitions with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony, Orchestra of Opera North and the Hallé.

    His repertoire includes works by Benjamin, Berio, Birtwistle, Boulez, Carter, Ligeti, Lutosławski, Stockhausen and Takemitsu, and he has conducted numerous world premières by composers including Brian Elias, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir John Tavener. In 2010 he founded the Theseus Ensemble, specialising in modernist repertoire of the late 20th and 21st Centuries.

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    • Le Portrait de Manon
      Jette Parker Young Artists at Royal Opera House

      The Massenet was very ably and sensitively conducted by Geoffrey Paterson
      Miranda Jackson, Opera Britannia
      The young players of the Southbank Sinfonia offer a sensual glow in the Massenet under Geoffrey Paterson
      Richard Russell, What’s on Stage
      Geoffrey Paterson...drew a transparent French sound from the impressive Southbank Sinfonia.
      Peter Reed, Classical Source

    • Death in Venice
      Jette Parker Young Artists at The Royal Opera House

      ...it was Geoffrey Paterson’s handling of Britten’s score which pointed towards an accomplished conductor in the making.
      Antony Lias, Opera Britannia
      The Death in Venice excerpt was in one word - stunning. Geoffrey Paterson conducted this extract with real style.
      MusicWeb International

    • Don Giovanni
      Opera della Luna at Iford Arts

      But Don Giovanni still went to hell, not to rehab, and while Geoffery Paterson’s conducting of the Orchestra of the Swan made sure he was ultimately despatched with fire to match the escort of red demons, it was the sensitivity and flair of Paterson’s own continuo playing in the recitatives that stood out.
      Rian Evans, Opera Magazine

    • Peter Grimes
      Cambridge

      A first-rate musician. His handling of the score was remarkable… the musicians’ response to the subtle inflections of Britten’s orchestral colour was superb. The storm interlude could hardly have been more terrifying, nor the ending more hauntingly melancholic.
      Jo Kirkbride, Opera Magazine

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