THE Scottish Chamber Orchestra yesterday announced the appointment of
Ivor Bolton as its new chief conductor. He takes up his post in August
1994.
Ivor Bolton, 35, who was educated at Clare College, Oxford, and the
Royal College of Music, has worked regularly with the SCO in recent
years. Most recently he appeared with them at Mayfest and the Edinburgh
Festival where he presided over the first performances of James
MacMillan's music theatre work Visitatio Sepulchri. He has just recorded
the work with the SCO as part of the MacMillan series on BMG Classics.
In the course of his appointment he will give a minimum of 12
performances a year with the orchestra, in addition to touring and
recording. His repertoire will embrace the baroque (he is also a
harpsichordist) and the modern. This season he will make two guest
appearances with the SCO conducting music by Bach and Corelli, Tippett
and Stravinsky. He will also conduct the premiere of a new work by Peter
Nelson.
A long association with Glyndebourne culminated in his appointment
last year as director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. In addition, he
founded in 1984 the St James's Baroque Players with whom he made his
London Proms debut this year.
Bolton succeeds Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the SCO's former principal
conductor. The change of terminology to chief conductor is significant.
The SCO management feels that, rather than being led artistically by a
single figurehead, it is more appropriate to the orchestra's remit to
have a group or roster of regular conductors, embracing among them a
broad range of specialisms.
Thus Ivor Bolton joins a team that includes Sir Charles Mackerras, the
SCO's chief guest conductor (whose Mozart opera performances with the
SCO are highly acclaimed), Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the orchestra's
associate composer/conductor, principally concerned with the completion
of the Strathclyde Concerto project, and James MacMillan, the SCO's
affiliate composer, who has conducted the orchestra in performances of
his own music.
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