Grant Llewellyn
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Grant Llewellyn (born 29 December 1960) is a Welsh conductor and music director of the Orchestre National de Bretagne.
Biography
Llewellyn was born in
Stavanger Symfoniorkester from 1993 to 1996. Llewellyn served as chief conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders (now known as the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
) from 1995 to 1998.
From 2001 to 2006, Llewellyn was the music director of the
Boston), where he also held the title of principal conductor. He served as Music Director of the North Carolina Symphony from 2004 until 2020. He has been Music Director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne since 2014.[1][2]
Also a conductor of opera, Llewellyn has led performances at the
stage director Chen-Shi Zheng with a 2001 production of Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Spoleto Festival USA. He also conducted a 2003 new production of Jules Massenet’s Manon at Opera North
. More recently he conducted at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.
Grant Llewellyn is UK President of the Welsh Sinfonia, Wales' professional chamber orchestra, conducted by Mark Eager.
Llewellyn, his wife Charlotte and their four children reside in Cardiff.
References
- ^ "Press Releases - North Carolina Symphony". Archived from the original on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ^ "Page d'Accueil". O-s-b.fr. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
Sources
- Waleson, Heidi (Winter 2001). "Handel & Haydn maps out a new era". Early Music America (7): 18–21.
- Loveland, K. (Autumn 1995). "Grant Llewellyn". Musical Opinion (118): 145.
- "Honours and Appointments". The Instrumentalist. 45: 6. August 1990.
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