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"After a pause for breath, Strauss' Ein Heldenleben  [with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra] blew away the post-Stalin storm clouds with all the macho swagger one could hope for..[...]..The lusciously lavish orchestral writing was realised with a gleaming glow and the hero's battle with his critics was suitably monumental. Chauhan paced the dying light of the coda to perfection, the world-weary hero taking his leave from life with quietly stately dignity."

Bachtrack - November 2024

Alpesh Chauhan OBE

British conductor Alpesh Chauhan is Principal Guest Conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker and Music Director of Birmingham Opera Company. 

Forthcoming 24/25 season highlights includes debuts with Stavanger, Detroit and Vancouver Symphonies, Orchestre National de Belgique, PhilZuid and Orchestre de Auvergne including at the Evian Festival. He returns to the Oslo Philharmonic, City of Birmingham, Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, BBC Scottish, BBC Philharmonic, Ulster Orchestra and Orchestra della Fenice. With his Düsseldorf orchestra, he conducts Das Lied von der Erde as well as opening their new season with Korngold’s Symphony.  

 

Recent guest conducting projects also include with Atlanta Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, West Australian Symphony, Philharmonia, BBC Symphony, Toronto Symphony, London Philharmonic and Malmö Symphony. He also recently programmed Schumann’s Konzertstück with Odense Symphony and four horns of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Other regular soloists include Hilary Hahn, Pablo Ferrández and Sir Stephen Hough...[continue reading]...

7-9 Nov 2024
Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra Hall, Detroit, US
Johannes Moser, Cello
ADÈS | Three-Piece Suite from Powder Her Face
SAINT-SAËNS | Cello Concerto No. 1
HOLST | The Planets
MATTHEWS | Pluto, The 
Renewer 

16 Nov 2024
BBC Philharmonic | Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK
Alban Gerhardt, Cello
CLYNE | This Moment [UK Premiere]
SHOSTAKOVICH | Cello Concerto No. 2
STRAUSS | Ein Heldenleben

20 Nov 2024
Guildhall Symphony Orchestra | The Barbican, London, UK
ADÈS | Polaris: Voyage for Orchestra
SAARIAHO | Orion
HOLST | The Planets
MATTHEWS | Pluto, The 
Renewer 

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+44 (0)7810 652 892

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