Christian Curnyn Conductor

Christian Curnyn is widely recognised as one of Specialist early music ensembles among the UK’s leading conductors specialising in the Christian’s regular collaborators include Academy Baroque and Classical repertoire. In 1994 of Ancient Music, AKAMUS, English Concert, Christian founded the with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the whom he appears regularly at the Wigmore Hall Irish and Wroclaw Baroque orchestras. Alongside and St John’s Smith Square for the London this work he takes a particular interest in Festival of . They have also performing Baroque and Classical repertoire with performed at the BBC Proms as well as at the modern forces, including collaborations with Cheltenham, Spitalfields, York Early Music and Bournemouth Symphony, Ulster, Hallé, Scottish Kilkenny Arts Festivals. The ECO made their Het Chamber (including a recording on the Decca Concertgebouw debut with a double bill of Dido label with ), Swedish Chamber and Aeneas and Blow’s Venus and Adonis in 2018. Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony, Ensemble Resonanz and Essen Philharmoniker. He has also Much in demand on the operatic scene, in the UK conducted a tour in Australia with the Christian has conducted for Scottish Opera Tasmanian, West Australian and Adelaide (Handel ), Opera North (Handel’s and Symphony Orchestras. ), (Semele,

Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, and Cavalli’s Recent and forthcoming highlights include Eliogabalo) and with (Die concerts with the Orchestra of the Age of Zauberflöte and Handel’s Amadigi). He is a regular Enlightenment, Budapest Festival Orchestra, at where successes have Royal Scottish National Orchestra, BBC NOW, and included Olivier Award-winning productions of Komische Oper Berlin, Acis and Galatea with his Handel’s and Rameau’s Castor et Early Opera Company for the Buxton Festival, a Pollux (dir. ), After Dido (Katie new production of Handel’s for Oper Mitchell’s realisation of Purcell’s Dido and Halle which will also celebrate the 100th year of Aeneas), Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Charpentier’s the Halle Festival, Semele with AKAMUS and Medée, and Handel's . Opera Collective Ireland and a return to House Covent Garden for a new For The Royal Opera, Covent Garden he has production. With the Early Opera Company he conducted Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera, Cavalli's will conduct concerts at the Wigmore Hall, Bruges L' to inaugurate their series at the Sam and Amsterdam Concertgebouw and St John Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s The Smith Square as well as record their next disc for Globe, where he returned for Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo Chandos records of Handel’s Amadigi. (nominated for an Olivier Award), and

Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse at The His extensive discography with the Early Opera Roundhouse. Most recently he conducted Apollo Company for the Chandos label includes their e Dafne and . 2005 recording of Partenope which won widespread critical acclaim, and their recording of Further afield he has worked with Opera Australia Semele was chosen as a Best Recording of 2008 (Partenope), Landestheater Salzburg (Vivaldi’s Farnace and Handel’s Ariodante) Frankfurt Opera by The Sunday Times, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone Magazine and awarded the 2008 (Cavalli’s and Gluck’s ), Komische Oper Berlin (Rameau’s and Stanley Sadie Handel Prize. Further releases include includes Il Trionfo del Tempo for Wigmore Zoroastre), Stuttgart Opera (Rameau’s Platée, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Handel’s ), Live, Eccles’ The Judgement of Paris, (awarded a Diapason D’or), Britten’s The Beggar’s Opera, Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos (Mozart ) and Theatre Basel (Le nozze di Figaro). Handel’s , (winner of the Opera award in the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2013), In the USA Christian has conducted Partenope , and most recently Acis & Galetea (winner and Cosi fan Tutte for , of the Opera category of the 2019 BBC Music Handel's for Glimmerglass Opera, and Magazine Awards).

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