Oswestry Sinfonia

Conductor - Richard Adamson
My interest in conducting began in 2003 as a member of the Music Society of Downing College, Cambridge, when I was asked to conduct Haydn’s 45th Symphony and resolved to take lessons. Russell Keable was to be my teacher for the next three years and recommended that I attend Rudolfo Saglimbeni’s conducting course at the Canford Summer School of Music. These maestri were very influential to my personal style of rehearsal and approach to music-making. I am particularly pleased to be conducting the Egmont Overture and Schubert Symphony tonight as they were both in the repertoire in my first course at Canford in 2004. During my next two years at Cambridge I organised and conducted several concerts encompassing a wide range of music including Shostakovich’s 2nd Piano Concerto, Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto and Sibelius’s 3rd Symphony. After graduating with a BA from Cambridge I did a Masters in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music. Since returning to North Wales I joined Wrexham Symphony Orchestra, with whom I conducted an all-American concert in February and where I regularly lead the viola section. Besides conducting, I teach viola and violin for Wrexham County Council and count myself lucky that music is such a big part of my life. I have thoroughly enjoyed my first term with Oswestry Sinfonia and hope that you enjoy tonight’s concert and will return in June for our next concert with works by Dvorak and Beethoven.

Conductor - Richard Adamson

My interest in conducting began in 2003 as a member of the Music Society of Downing College, Cambridge, when I was asked to conduct Haydn’s 45th Symphony and resolved to take lessons. Russell Keable was to be my teacher for the next three years and recommended that I attend Rudolfo Saglimbeni’s conducting course at the Canford Summer School of Music. These maestri were very influential to my personal style of rehearsal and approach to music-making. I am particularly pleased to be conducting the Egmont Overture and Schubert Symphony tonight as they were both in the repertoire in my first course at Canford in 2004.

During my next two years at Cambridge I organised and conducted several concerts encompassing a wide range of music including Shostakovich’s 2nd Piano Concerto, Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto and Sibelius’s 3rd Symphony. After graduating with a BA from Cambridge I did a Masters in Composition at the Royal Northern College of Music. Since returning to North Wales I joined Wrexham Symphony Orchestra, with whom I conducted an all-American concert in February and where I regularly lead the viola section.

Besides conducting, I teach viola and violin for Wrexham County Council and count myself lucky that music is such a big part of my life. I have thoroughly enjoyed my first term with Oswestry Sinfonia and hope that you enjoy tonight’s concert and will return in June for our next concert with works by Dvorak and Beethoven.