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| Christopher
Hogwood conducts repertoire ranging from the baroque to contemporary,
always with the prevailing philosophy of revealing the original
sound-world of the composer. Since founding The Academy of Ancient Music
in 1973, he has gained international recognition for his performances of
baroque and early classical repertoire with period instruments. For more
than forty years he has also been performing music of the twentieth
century, with a particular affinity for the neo-baroque and
neo-classical schools including many works by Stravinsky, Martinu and
Hindemith. With modern symphony and chamber orchestras he creates
intriguing juxtapositions of the old and the new (Tippett and Corelli,
Schönberg and Händel, Webern and Bach) and has directed several
premieres of works by European and American composers. He is
particularly interested in Czech music and the works of Bohuslav
Martinu, and was awarded the Martinu Medal by the Bohuslav Martinu
Foundation, Prague, in 1999. He has also encouraged The Academy of
Ancient Music to commission contemporary pieces, with some considerable
successes with works by John Tavener and David Bedford.
In addition to his position as Director of The AAM, his principal conducting contracts include the Kammerorchester Basel and the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada; he is Conductor Laureate of Boston's Händel & Haydn Society. Other engagements this season include the Residentie Orkest with the Nederlands Kamerkoor, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestra della Toscana and Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano. In opera he has worked with Opera Australia, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Royal Opera Stockholm, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Chorégies d'Orange and begins this season with Händel's Ariodante at Houston Grand Opera. Hogwood has a celebrated catalogue of more than 200 recordings with The AAM for Decca on the L'Oiseau-Lyre label, including the first complete Mozart symphonies on period instruments. One of his current recording projects is a series of three CDs featuring neo-classical repertoire with the Kammerorchester Basel. The first two, with works by Martinu, Stravinsky, Honegger, Britten and Tippett, have been released on the Arte Nova label. Hogwood also continues to record the complete Gade symphonies with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Martinu's works for solo violin with Bohuslav Matousek and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also recording a series of CDs of baroque and classical music for clavichord (Metronome). The connection between the worlds of musicology and performance is important to Hogwood; with as many as possible of his editorial projects he covers the ground from initial research through to performance or recording. He has recently directed the Italian group L'Arte dell'Arco in concerts and a recording (Chandos) of his new Eulenburg edition of L'Estro Armonico. He is currently editing the original version of La Revue de Cuisine which will be recorded by the Czech Philharmonic (Supraphon). Other works in progress include more of Haydn's London symphonies arranged for flute and string quartet by Johann Peter Salomon, Purcell keyboard music, keyboard music from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book for Music Britannica and Mendelssohn overtures for Bärenreiter. His many publications include a survey of patronage through the ages (Music at Court), biographical studies of Haydn, Mozart and Händel (Thames and Hudson), a history of the trio sonata (BBC Publications), investigations of British music and many editions of keyboard and orchestral music from the sixteenth century onwards. His writings have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. Hogwood's academic positions include Fellowships at Jesus and Pembroke Colleges, Cambridge, Visiting Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and he works regularly at Harvard University. In 2002 he was made Honorary Professor of Music by the University of Cambridge. Visit www.hogwood.org for further information on Christopher Hogwood and his work. 2002 |
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