Conductor - Geoffrey Paterson

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Geoffrey Paterson read Music at St John’s College, Cambridge, studying composition with Alexander Goehr, and subsequently studied as a conductor with Peter Stark in London, Alasdair Mitchell at the RSAMD, Diego Masson in Dartington and Peter Eötvös and Pierre Boulez in Lucerne, before training at the National Opera Studio as a répétiteur. In 2009 he was awarded First Prize at the Ninth Leeds Conductors Competition, where he also won the audience prize. In 2010 he joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, where he has worked as assistant to Antonio Pappano and Rory Macdonald.

With the Cambridge University Opera Society, Geoffrey conducted a production of Peter Grimes, and he has worked as conductor and music staff for Edinburgh Studio Opera, Kentish Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, British Youth Opera, The Opera Group, The Royal Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. In 2010 he made his debut at Opera North conducting La bohème. In 2011 he will make his Glyndebourne debut with the world première of Followers by Julian Philips and his Iford Opera Festival debut with Don Giovanni.

Geoffrey made his Bridgewater Hall debut in 2011, conducting the Manchester Camerata's New Year's gala, and he has also conducted at the Aldeburgh and Cheltenham Festivals. In workshops and competitions he has conducted the London Sinfonietta, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North and the Hallé; he has also worked as musical assistant on film music projects and recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and at the Komische Oper Berlin.

Geoffrey's repertoire includes works by Benjamin, Berio, Birtwistle, Boulez, Carter, Ligeti, Lutosławski, Stockhausen and Takemitsu, and he has conducted numerous world premières by composers including Brian Elias, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir John Tavener.