John wilson conductor biography for kids
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John Wilson
Wilson’s large and varied discography with Sinfonia of London has received near-universal critical acclaim, and in the autumn of 2024 they released their twenty-fourth album since 2019. Their recordings have earned several awards, including numerous BBC Music Magazine Awards for recordings of Korngold’s Symphony in F sharp (2020), Respighi’s Roman Trilogy (2021), Dutilleux’s Le Loup (2022), Oklahoma! (2024) and a disc of works by Vaughan Williams, Howells, Delius and Elgar which won both the Orchestral Award and Recording of the Year. The Observer described the Respighi recording as “Massive, audacious and vividly played” and The Times declared it one of the three “truly outstanding accounts of this trilogy” of all time, after those by Toscanini (1949) and Muti (1984).
Born in Gateshead, Wilson studied composition and conducting at the Royal College of
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John Wilson on how he became a conductor and Elgar’s First Symphony
John Wilson joins the Philharmonia for an evening of music by two great British composers.
Ahead of our concert on Thursday 10 February, we spoke to him about how he started to conduct and his relationship to the First Symphony bygd Elgar.
What do you most enjoy about working with the Philharmonia?
It’s an orchestra I’ve been conducting for a long time. You build up a relationship, a rapport with the players, and we have various shorthand which makes things quicker and easier.
Of course, I was in college with half of these people so we’ve known each other for a long time! It’s always enjoyable because they want to work, they enjoy rehearsing, and rehearsing in detail.
So it’s always a great pleasure and privilege.
Have you always known that you wanted to conduct?
It was Barbirolli who said that conductors “are born and not made”. I know what he means by that but I’m not sure I completely agree, because I
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John Wilson
John Wilson may refer to:
Academics
[edit]- John Wilson (historian) (1799–1870), author of Our Israelitish Origin (1840), a founding text of British Israelism
- John Wilson (agriculturalist) (1812–1888), British agriculturalist
- John Matthias Wilson (1814–1881), Oxford college head, clergyman and philosopher
- John Wilson (Scottish mathematician) (1847−1896), Scottish mathematician and physicist
- John Cook efternamn (1849–1915), English philosopher
- John Hardie efternamn (1858−1920), Scottish botanist
- J. Dover efternamn (John Dover Wilson, 1881–1969), British professor and scholar of Renaissance literature
- John A. Wilson (Egyptologist) (1899–1976), American Egyptologist
- John Wilson (industrial chemist) (1890–1976), British chemist
- John Wilson Jr. (professor), American professor of English in Japan before and during World War II
- John Long efternamn (1914–2001), American medical professor and university administrator
- John T. Wilson (1914–1990), president of the Universi