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  Sir Colin Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Colin has been the Principal Conductor of the LSO since 1995 and is also Principal Guest Conductor of the New York Philharmonic and Honorary Conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle.
Sir Colin begins this season with a Prom concert with the LSO and then a series of Mozart Piano Concertos with Uchida and the LSO, coupled with all the symphonies of Edward Elgar.
Sir Colin Davis was born in Weybridge, Surrey in 1927.
www.nyo.org.uk /davisC.htm   (456 words)

  
 Colin Davis (Conductor) - Short Biography
Colin Davis made his USA debut as a guest conductor with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra in December 1960; subsequently had engagements with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
From 1967 to 1971 Colin Davis was chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London.
In 1983 Colin Davis was appointed chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich, which he led on a tour of North America in 1986.
www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Davis-Colin.htm   (754 words)

  
 Colin Rex Davis, Sir Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sir Colin Davis (born 1927) is considered by critics as one of Britain's greatest conductors.
Sir Colin Davis was born on September 25, 1927, in Weybridge, Surrey, England.
Davis served as the principal guest conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1972 to 1983.
www.bookrags.com /biography/colin-rex-davis-sir   (1906 words)

  
 Davis, Sir Colin Rex - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
DAVIS, SIR COLIN REX [Davis, Sir Colin Rex] 1927-, English conductor.
Davis began his musical career as a clarinetist; he is a self-taught conductor.
Davis is renowned as a conductor of Mozart, Berlioz, and Wagner.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-daviss1ir.html   (246 words)

  
 BBC News | MUSIC | Sir Colin Davis' musical honour
Sir Colin was born in 1927 and studied clarinet at the Royal College of Music, going on to play in the band of the Household Cavalry during his military service.
Sir Colin's work with the LSO has frequently merited critical superlatives and in May's Royal Philharmonic Society awards the LSO and its conductor were awarded the prize for large ensemble.
Sir Colin was made a CBE in 1965 and was knighted in 1980.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/music/1390665.stm   (349 words)

  
 Sibelius Academy - Events and activities - Sir Colin Davis´ biograph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Colin has been Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) since 1995 and is also Honorary Conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle.
In the new year Sir Colin will be conducting the Orchestre National de France, the Dresden Staatskapelle and is then going to Vienna, Helsinki and London with an orchestra composed of students from the three music conservatoires, Vienna, Helsinki and the Guildhall School of London.
Sir Colin has received Brit Awards and was given the Yehudi Menuhin Prize for working with young people by the Queen of Spain in Madrid in 2003.
www.siba.fi /eng/info/events/biograph.php   (431 words)

  
 London Symphony Chorus - Biography - Sir Colin Davis CBE
Sir Colin is Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Sir Colin Davis began his new appointment with the London Symphony Orchestra with concert performances of Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet and Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Sir Colin Davis was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1965 and received a knighthood in 1980.
www.cix.co.uk /~lsc/lsni0111.htm   (399 words)

  
 Sir Colin Davis Continues His LSO Live Sibelius Cycle Review By Joe Milicia
hen Colin Davis recorded the seven Sibelius symphonies with the Boston Symphony in the mid-1970s (he was their Principal Guest Conductor, and not yet Sir Colin), the performances were very well received.
Davis takes the chorale-like coda that surprisingly ends the first movement more than "un pochettino largamente," but the sounds are sweet and warm, not ponderous.
Curiously, in both his BSO and LSO performances Sir Colin partly submerges the trombone in the choir of the other brass.
www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/0904/classical/sibelius.htm   (900 words)

  
 Sir Colin Davis News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Colin Davis, one of the world's most recognised conductors will lead an orchestra featuring the members of three of the leading music schools in Europe.
Sir Colin Davis, one of Britain's most respected conductors, is to lead France's National Orchestra in the "Symphonie Fantastique" by the 19th French composer Hector Berlioz in a Paris auditorium on January 14.
Conducted by Sir Colin Davis, with Enkelejda Shkosa and Kenneth Tarver.
www.topix.net /who/sir-colin-davis   (443 words)

  
 Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra Centenary Tour Concerts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This is music that conductor Sir Colin Davis, the orchestra, its chorus and the soloists have in their bones.
Colin Davis is famous for his Sibelius interpretations, and he demonstrated why in the second program, which featured En Saga, and Symphonies 3 and 5.
Following the launch of the Centenary in New York with Sir Colin Davis in January 2004, the London Symphony Orchestra continues its 100th birthday celebration at the Barbican in London and worldwide with a tour of the Far East.
www.culturekiosque.com /klassik/concert/lso.html   (1047 words)

  
 classical music - andante - colin davis on hector berlioz
Colin Davis adored Berlioz's music, and in the late 1950s he began to emerge as one of the composer's finest and most vital advocates.
Gradually Davis took on almost all of Berlioz's orchestral, choral and operatic oeuvre; his performances were acclaimed for their blend of sensitivity and delicacy with brilliance and fire.
For the 2003 Berlioz bicentennial, Davis and the LSO are paying special tribute to the composer with a series of three programs in London (February) and New York (March); he returns to the U.S. in April to lead the New York Philharmonic in Béatrice et Bénédict.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=20093   (1803 words)

  
 French culture | music: Berlioz recordings on LSO Live   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra
British conductor Sir Colin Davis is well-known as the world's pre-eminent interpreter of the music of French composer Hector Berlioz.
Colin Davis began to explore Berlioz's music first with the BBC Scottish Symphony and the Chelsea Opera Group back in the 1950s.
www.frenchculture.org /music/events/01berliozlsocd.html   (636 words)

  
 BERLIOZ The Trojans LSO /Sir Colin Davis The Barbican, 6 & 7 December 00 (PGW)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
BERLIOZ The Trojans LSO /Sir Colin Davis The Barbican, 6 and 7 December 00 (PGW)
BERLIOZ The Trojans LSO and LSO Chorus/Sir Colin Davis with soloists The Barbican, 6 and 7 December 00 (PGW)
With the LSO and its Chorus fired with Sir Colin Davis's energy and life-long dedication to the cause of Berlioz, the several performances of The Trojans brought the LSO's Berlioz Odyssey 2000 to a magnificent culmination.
www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/2001/Jan01/trojans.htm   (297 words)

  
 Decca Music Group - Colin Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Davis was soon working with professional orchestras including the BBC Scottish Symphony.
Davis has enjoyed a career-long affiliation with Philips Classics, recording along with Berlioz, Mozart, the complete symphonies of Sibelius (while he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Boston Symphony in the 1970s) and much more.
Colin Davis was knighted in 1980 and is currently the Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble with whom he has had a thirty-five year plus association.
www.deccaclassics.com /artists/davis/biog.html   (270 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Les Troyens Comp: Music: Hector Berlioz,Sir Colin Davis,Charles Taylor,Covent Garden Royal Opera House ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Colin Davis and a small group of other conductors spearheaded a Berlioz revival in Britain and America, rescuing many of Berlioz' greatest works from oblivion.
The opera is expertly conducted by Sir Colin Davis and the Orchestra of Covent Garden.
Davis is one of the least appreciated conductors of his generation.
www.amazon.ca /Troyens-Comp-Sir-Colin-Davis/dp/B0000040Y0   (1553 words)

  
 Colin Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Colin Rex Davis, CH, CBE (born September 25, 1927) is a noted British conductor.
Davis studied the clarinet at the Royal College of Music in London, where he was barred from taking conducting lessons owing to his lack of ability at the piano.
Aside from his championing of Tippett and his interpretations of Mozart, Davis is particularly closely associated with the music of Hector Berlioz, giving many performances of his operas and orchestral works, Benjamin Britten, and Jean Sibelius.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colin_Davis   (424 words)

  
 Telegraph | Entertainment | 'I'm still surprised by music'
If you ask Sir Colin Davis to summarise his proudest moments in a career that has now spanned more than four decades, his answer goes much deeper than merely identifying what he calls "trophies hanging on the wall".
There are likely to be several more similar attacks next Wednesday when Davis mounts the podium at the Barbican to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in a Citigroup-sponsored gala concert celebrating his 75th birthday, with proceeds going to LSO Discovery, the orchestra's education and community programme.
Davis became principal conductor of the LSO in 1995.
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml;sessionid=IW4OBZ0BLK4QZQFIQMFSM5WAVCBQ0JVC?xml=/arts/2002/09/19/bmdavis19.xml   (1001 words)

  
 A tribute to Sir Colin Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sir Colin Davis rehearsing Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival in 1978
Sir Colin Davis began his career in Sweden in 1949 before becoming assistant conductor of the BBC Scottish Orchestra in 1957.
Sir Colin Davis has conducted three major Unitel productions: Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser from the 1978 Bayreuth Festival (Davis was the first British conductor to be invited to lead a performance in Bayreuth), Claude Debussy's The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, and Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw.
www.unitel.de /uhilites/1997/091597.htm   (565 words)

  
 French culture | music: Sir Colin Davis Gramophone Magazine Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The following interview of Sir Colin Davis by award-winning Berlioz biographer David Cairns appeared in the August 2001 issue of Gramophone magazine.
For Sir Colin Davis above all, the new Trojans recording - taken from the third of three concert performances given to packed audiences at the Barbican last December - crowns a campaign carried out over nearly half a century.
For Davis, Nature also plays an important and not always acknowledged role in the opera, particularly evident in its juxtaposition with the doings of men.
www.frenchculture.org /music/people/berlioz/gramophoneaug01.html   (2094 words)

  
 LSO/Sir Colin Davis @ Barbican Hall, London : concert review
Sir Colin looked bored and the LSO sounded in third gear, though the clarinet solos were played with a haunting lilt.
Yet both Kissin and Davis warmed up considerably in the final movement, and the pianist in particular was in his prime.
Sir Colin seems to understand this music instinctively; his spontaneous relationship with the LSO brings out both the poignancy and the drama of the piece.
www.musicomh.com /classical/lso-kissin_0906.htm   (725 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sibelius: The Complete Symphonies 1: Music: Jean Sibelius,Sir Colin Davis,Boston Symphony Orchestra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Colin Davis is a master of Sibelius' music, and his first cycle of the symphonies with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, available on two "duo" CD sets on Phillips, is available at a budget price.
Davis is cool-to-chilly much of the time, abetted by elegant, restrained playing from the BSO.
Sir Colin Davis lo logra y junto a la extraordinaria orquesta Sinfonica de Boston hacen de este Cd una coleccion fantastica digna de un amante de las sinfonias y por cierto del gran Sibelius.
www.amazon.com /Sibelius-Symphonies-Sir-Colin-Davis/dp/B0000041BV   (2255 words)

  
 The Hector Berlioz website - Sir Colin Davis and David Cairns
This page presents the edited text of an interview which first appeared in the programme booklet for the concert performances of Les Troyens in December 2000 given by Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra which concluded the year-long Berlioz Odyssey series.
We are most grateful to Sir Colin, David Cairns and the LSO for granting us permission to publish this text and the accompanying photograph on this site.
Sir Colin Davis : He’s a much greater composer than I ever thought he was.
www.hberlioz.com /others/interview.htm   (913 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: V44 Mozart Edition La Clemenz: Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,Sir Colin Davis,Dame Janet Baker,Stuart ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But the best Vitelia you will find in Della Jones' interpretation for this role, under Hogwood,....I have never seen someone like her singing this role, that is one of the most exquisite and dificult roles in the universo of the Mozart operas.
Colin Davis shows his usual flare for Mozart as evidenced in his other Mozart operas on Philips.
Davis guides them all (and his orchestral and charol forces) through a committed, nuanced, and emotional performance, so that this work of love, intrigue, and forgiveness builds to the cathartic finale Mozart intended.
www.amazon.ca /Mozart-Clemenz-Sir-Colin-Davis/dp/B00000411P   (1386 words)

  
 Davis Sir Colin Rex - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Davis Sir Colin Rex - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Davis began his musical training by studying the clarinet at the Royal College of Music, where he...
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 Britten, Elgar and Sibelius, Mahler and Bruckner at The Barbican April 2002,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, still in fl armbands for the Queen Mother, never fails to thrill and exhilarate, and this was one of their finest concerts ever.
Sir Colin Davis moulded Sibelius 3 with extraordinary unanimity of rubato phrasing, and magical pianissimos from a huge orchestra without any rough edges.
For Sir Colin Davis in Elgar 2, snap up his interpretation in a great performance with the LSO on LSOLive LSO0018 (No 1 is on LSO0017) at the ridiculous price of £5 each.
www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/2002/Apr02/BES.htm   (666 words)

  
 Sibelius Academy - Events and activities - Sir Colin Davis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
European Academies' Symphony Orchestra with Sir Colin Davis
The players have been brought together to work with one of the world’s most recognised conductors, Sir Colin Davis, by asking him to share his insight into key repertoire by some of the composers with whom he feels a particularly close affinity: Mozart,.Elgar and Sibelius.
While the project therefore has a strongly nationalistic genesis, the international nature of the three institutions means that the orchestra is comprised of representatives from around the world, including almost all European countries.
www.siba.fi /eng/info/events/sir_colin_davis.php   (232 words)

  
 Sir Colin Davis, CBE - City University London   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Colin Davis is principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and principal guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
He moved to Sadler's Wells in 1959 as musical director of the Royal Opera House and honorary conductor of the Dresden Staatskapelle before joining the LSO in 1995.
As well as his knighthood in 1990 and multiple Grammys for his recordings, Colin has been awarded many international honours as well as some closer to home, including Pipe Smoker of the Year, 1995.
www.city.ac.uk /alumni/about/hongrads/colindavis.html   (178 words)

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