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Philip Hesketh
Philip Hesketh became Musical Director of the West London Sinfonia in 1991, since when the orchestra has achieved and maintained a status as one of London's leading amateur groups. Philip is also Musical Director of the London Children's Ballet, the Richmond Orchestra, Opera de Bauge, and makes regular guest appearancess in Britain and abroad. He has a vast knowledge of the repertoire and gives concerts with many orchestra including the Belgrade Philharmonic, the National Philharmonic of Moldova, the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, the Orchestra of the Wiener Volksoper and Wiener Residenz Orchester in Vienna, and the Olsztyn State Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland.
In 2001 Philip made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, replacing the great Russian conductor Evgenii Svetlanov in the Royal Ballet’s season of the Nutcracker. Further invitations followed, in particular to the Royal Swedish Ballet to conduct their revival of Onegin.
Philip has a talent for accompanying dance that is considered rare amongst conductors, and he has worked very successfully with choreographers and dancers including Sir Anthony Dowell, Sir Peter Wright, Wayne Sleep Harold King and Cathy Marston. Recently, as well as further work with the Royal Ballet, he collaborated with Irek Mukhammedov on a new ballet of The Prince and the Pauper for the London Children’s Ballet.
In 2004 Philip conducted a production of Flotow's Martha for the festival Opera de Bauge. This was followed in 2005 by Handel's Rodelinde and Dibdin's The Widow of Ephasus, and it was as a result of these that he was invited to be Musical Director of the festival from the 2005 season. Since then he has conducted Don Giovanni, Carmen, Idomeneo, Eugene Onegin, and A Midsummer Night's Dream The forthcoming season will see him performing Rigoletto, Fidelio, and La Boheme.
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