John Gibbons - Conductor

John Gibbons' growing reputation as both an orchestral and operatic conductor is reflected in the glowing reviews following every performance. His expertise with the human voice inspired Lady Walton to write of his performance of Walton's Belshazzar's Feast - "What a brilliant performance... I cannot get over how beautifully and dashingly you presented Belshazzar's Feast, thank you".

 

“As an entity, this Traviata makes a solid impact. John Gibbons’s conducting does something more. He shows a precise understanding of Verdian style and motivates the score from start to finish.”                                             George Hall  - Independent on Sunday

 

 

“The entire musical performance, under John Gibbons’s vital baton, reveals Opera Holland Park punching above its weight.”                            Hugh Canning. Sunday Times

 

 

John's new orchestral reduction of Troilus & Cressida for Opera Theatre of St Louis and the William Walton Trust

“every so often, something comes along to knock your socks off. This will be hard to outdo as the operatic revelation of the year. ..Nothing about John Gibbons’s reduced orchestration left one wanting more.”      Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News. June 2008

 

 




Photo of Conductor, John Gibbons

John Gibbons - Conductor & Composer 
MA (Cantab), FRSA, FRCO, Dip RAM

 Future Engagements in 2009 

 

Saturday, June 6th 2009, 7.30pm

Ulverston Parish Church - Ulverston Festival Chorus and Welsh Chamber Orchestra

"Baroque Choral Celebration" - Concert in Ulverston International Music Festival

HANDEL              Zadok the Priest; My Heart is inditing                                                                PURCELL            My Heart is inditing                                                                                             BACH                  Jesu, joy of man's desiring; Suite No. 3                                                              KARL JENKINS    Palladio

 

Saturday, June 27th 2009, 7.30 pm

EALING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, W5

James MACMILLAN    Britannia                                                                                      BRAHMS                   Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major - Hugh Mather (piano)                           RAKHMANINOV         Symphonic Dances 

 

Saturday 4th July 2009  7.30pm     "The Power of Nature"

ST ALBANS CHAMBER CHOIR - St Peters Church, St Albans. 0845 658 8982                                 Karl Jenkins & Carol Barratt (piano duet), Daniella Ganeva (marimba) 

KARL JENKINS        A Parliament of Owls
Bob CHILCOTT         Weather Report                                                                                           Morten LAURIDSEN  Les Chansons des Roses
Rihards DUBRA        Oratio                                                                                                       Edward ELGAR         There is sweet music + madrigals by Orlando Gibbons & Vautor

 

Saturday 18th July 2009  7.30pm

LORD WILLIAMS'S FESTIVAL CHORUS - Thame Leisure Centre

Howard GOODALL: Eternal Light

 

Sunday 13th September  2.45pm

WORTHING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – Assembly Hall, Worthing, 
Box Office 01903 206206.

HAYDN           Symphony No. 85 "La Reine"
SAINT-SAENS  Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor - Soloist IDIL BIRET
FAURE            Ballade for piano and orchestra                                                                  MOZART:        Symphony No. 31 in D "Paris"

 

Saturday 10th October  7.30pm

EALING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - St Barnabas’s Church, Pitshanger Lane, W5

PROKOFIEV         Lieutenant Kije Suite                                                                                      RAKHMANINOV   Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini - Ashley Fripp                             ARNOLD              Symphony No. 4 

 

Sunday 11th October  2.45pm

WORTHING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – Assembly Hall, Worthing, 
Box Office 01903 206206.

MUSSORGSKY    Night on a bare Mountain
GLAZUNOV        Violin Concerto - Soloist NICOLA BENEDETTI
MASSENET        Meditation                                                                                                     TCHAIKOVSKY   Symphony No 5. 

 

 

Saturday 17th October 7.30pm     St Cecilia Society                                                   ST.ALBANS ABBEY                                                                                                                     

St Albans Chamber Choir, Hardynge Choir, Radlett Choral, St Albans Symphony Orchestra

VERDI: Requiem 

 

Sunday 8th November  2.45pm "REMEMBRANCE DAY CONCERT"

WORTHING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – Assembly Hall, Worthing, 
Box Office 01903 206206.

WALTON           Spitfire Prelude & Fugue                                                                  RAKHMANINOV   Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor - Soloist ANTHONY HEWITT                  ELGAR               Symphony No. 1 in A flat major

 

Saturday 21st November 7.30pm

EALING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - St Martin's Church, Hale Gardens, W3

ARUNTUNIAN       Trumpet Concerto - Simon Desbrulais                                        TCHAIKOVSKY       Manfred Symphony 

 

Saturday 5th December 2009  7.30pm - Thame Leisure Centre

LORD WILLIAMS'S FESTIVAL CHORUS, EALING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS    Fantasia on the old 104th                                                                         Carl ORFF                     Carmina Burana

 

Saturday 12th December 2009  7.30pm     "Music for Advent"

ST ALBANS CHAMBER CHOIR - All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney                                  0845 658 8982                               

 

Sunday 3rd January 2010  2.45pm "New Year's Celebration"

WORTHING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – Assembly Hall, Worthing, 
Box Office 01903 206206. 

BEETHOVEN        Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major - Soloist IAN FOUNTAIN                       Popular Waltzes, Polkas and Marches by Johann Strauss II and friends

 

Saturday 20th  February 2010 7.30pm

EALING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - St Barnabas, Pitshanger Lane, W5

Frank BRIDGE       Enter Spring                                                                        STRAVINSKY      The Rite of Spring 

 
 

 

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