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2023 a bumper year for new recordings
28 November 2023
NMC’s new disc of music by Luke Bedford rounds off a bumper year of new recordings featuring Geoffrey’s conducting.
Geoffrey conducts Evelyn Glennie’s prizewinner’s concert for the Léonie Sonning Music Prize
15 June 2023
On 15th June, Dame Evelyn Glennie was awarded Denmark’s prestigious Léonie Sonning Music Prize, worth one million Danish kroner.
Geoffrey writes for The Guardian about performing with Marius Neset at BBC Proms
3 September 2022
On 3 September Geoffrey returned to the BBC Proms, conducting the London Sinfonietta in a new hour-long work for ensemble and jazz quintet by Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset.
Recollections of a teenage Birtwistle super-fan
19 April 2022
Harrison Birtwistle’s music has been of enormous personal significance to me since childhood. I must have first heard his strikingly distinctive name in the context of the infamous première of Panic at the last night of the 1995 Proms.
Geoffrey opens BBC SSO Nielsen cycle, to acclaim
13 January 2022
Geoffrey stepped in as a last-minute replacement for Thomas Dausgaard to open the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s cycle of Nielsen symphonies, conducting the ‘Sinfonia Espansiva’ in a programme
Ritratto nominated for Edison Klassiek award
22 November 2021
Geoffrey’s recording of Willem Jeth’s Ritratto, recorded at Dutch National Opera in 2020, has been nominated in the opera category for the prestigious Edison Klassiek awards 2021
Oper Frankfurt debut with A Midsummer Night’s Dream
19 May 2021
Geoffrey will make his debut at Oper Frankfurt in their newly announced 2021-22 season conducting Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Rachmaninoff 3rd Symphony with Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra
23 April 2021
The Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra has announced its 2021-22 season, which features Geoffrey’s Japanese debut in the orchestra’s 498th Subscription Concert
Turnage and Matthews world premières at Wigmore Hall
23 April 2021
On 27th April Geoffrey will conduct the world premières of song cycles for soprano and ensemble with Claire Booth and the Nash Ensemble...