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Guy Woolfenden OBE - Patron
With more than 150 scores for the Royal Shakespeare Company and an impressive list of credits with major European theatre companies, including the Comèdie-Francaise, Paris, the Burgtheater, Vienna, the National Theatre of Norway and the Teatro di Stabile in Genoa, Guy Woolfenden’s theatre music is highly regarded throughout the world. During his thirty-seven years as Head of Music to the RSC, he collaborated with some of the world’s finest directors, designers and choreographers in many award-winning productions.
In collaboration with choreographer André Prokovsky, Guy has arranged the music for four full-length ballets, which he has subsequently conducted in productions with the Australian Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Hong Kong Ballet Company, Asami Maki Ballet, Toyko, and Scottish Ballet. Guy conducted the acclaimed Russian première of Anna Karenina with the Kirov Ballet in St Petersburg. The Three Musketeers had a successful season in 2003 at the Sydney Opera House, Australia, and a production of Anna Karenina was staged by Louisville Ballet in Kentucky in 2004.
Guy has conducted all the major British symphony orchestras and has conducted concerts in Canada, France and Germany. He has conducted many operas including the first British productions of Nielsen’s Saul and David, Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans and Liszt’s Don Sanche in London, and three productions with Scottish Opera.
Guy’s compositions for wind orchestra are performed all over the world and many are recorded on CD. Guy is conductor of the Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Orchestra, which represented Britain at the WASBE Conference in Lucerne in 2001. Future plans include commissions for a wind chamber work, a flute concerto and a string quartet. Guy’s Clarinet Concerto has been recorded by ASV, and there are plans to record more of his compositions.
Guy was the President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians 2002-2003, and is a past chairman of the British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Birmingham School of Music for his services to music in the Midlands in 1990, is an Honorary Member of the London College of Music and is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Guy was awarded an OBE for services to music, in the New Year’s Honours List in 2007.
In collaboration with choreographer André Prokovsky, Guy has arranged the music for four full-length ballets, which he has subsequently conducted in productions with the Australian Ballet, the Royal Ballet of Flanders, Hong Kong Ballet Company, Asami Maki Ballet, Toyko, and Scottish Ballet. Guy conducted the acclaimed Russian première of Anna Karenina with the Kirov Ballet in St Petersburg. The Three Musketeers had a successful season in 2003 at the Sydney Opera House, Australia, and a production of Anna Karenina was staged by Louisville Ballet in Kentucky in 2004.
Guy has conducted all the major British symphony orchestras and has conducted concerts in Canada, France and Germany. He has conducted many operas including the first British productions of Nielsen’s Saul and David, Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans and Liszt’s Don Sanche in London, and three productions with Scottish Opera.
Guy’s compositions for wind orchestra are performed all over the world and many are recorded on CD. Guy is conductor of the Birmingham Conservatoire Wind Orchestra, which represented Britain at the WASBE Conference in Lucerne in 2001. Future plans include commissions for a wind chamber work, a flute concerto and a string quartet. Guy’s Clarinet Concerto has been recorded by ASV, and there are plans to record more of his compositions.
Guy was the President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians 2002-2003, and is a past chairman of the British Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles. He was awarded a Fellowship of the Birmingham School of Music for his services to music in the Midlands in 1990, is an Honorary Member of the London College of Music and is an Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Guy was awarded an OBE for services to music, in the New Year’s Honours List in 2007.
