Frank Shipway

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Frank Edwin Shipway (9 July 1935 – 6 August 2014) was a British conductor.

Early life

Shipway was born in 1935 in Birmingham.[1] He studied piano first with his father and then with Alisa Verity. He earned a scholarship to The Royal College of Music to study piano and later switched to conducting.[2] Shipway was further trained by John Barbirolli and attended masterclasses with Herbert von Karajan, modelling his style after Karajan's own.[1]

Career

In 1963, Shipway became music director of the South-West Essex Symphony Orchestra, soon renamed the

Romantic periods.[3]

In 1991, Shipway formed the

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestras.[4]

For several years prior to his death, Shipway was a frequent guest conductor with the

São Paulo State Symphony; he made two recordings with the orchestra for BIS Records and was considered for the post of musical director upon the departure of John Neschling.[5] In addition to conducting, Shipway gave masterclasses and served on the juries of a number of international competitions including the Nikolai Malko and Arturo Toscanini conducting competitions.[4]

Shipway died on 6 August 2014 of injuries sustained in a car accident in

Wedhampton, Wiltshire, England. He was 79.[2]

Selected discography

Shipway's only recordings were made with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the São Paulo State Symphony. His recordings of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 are particularly well regarded.[1]

The Strauss recording was a finalist for BBC Music Magazine's Best Orchestral Recording of 2014.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Frank Shipway - obituary". Daily Telegraph. 31 August 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Obituaries: Frank Shipway". Gazette and Herald. 14 August 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  3. ^ Sanderson, Blair. "Biography: Frank Shipway". Allmusic. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  4. ^ a b "Frank Shipway biography". BIS Records. BIS. Archived from the original on 20 August 2014.
  5. ^ Sampaio, João Luiz (7 August 2014). "Morre o maestro inglês Frank Shipway". O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). Retrieved 22 July 2017.
  6. ^ Pentreath, Rosie. "BBC Music Magazine Awards 2014 winners announced". Classicalmusic.com. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
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