Conductors

Working extensively in the US, key North American engagements have included The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Detroit, St. Louis, Toronto, Milwaukee, Seattle and Vancouver symphony orchestras and the National Symphony Orchestra. He also regularly works with the Minnesota Orchestra and has conducted recent performances of Handel's Messiah with the Houston Symphony.
In 2017-18, Maestro Warren-Green will take the London Chamber Orchestra to the Enescu Festival in Bucharest in an eclectic programme featuring the music of Enescu, Benjamin, Mozart and Fitkin. He will also make his debut with the Tampere Philharmonic performing works by Sibelius, Stravinsky and Bartok. Last season he returned to Orchestre National de Belgique, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven Orchester Bonn and he made debuts with the Nashville Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic orchestras.
In Charlotte, he conducts Rite of Spring, a community partnership with Charlotte Ballet in April 2018. Past season highlights have included collaborations with Itzhak Perlman and Sir James Galway, as well as Beethoven Missa Solemnis, Strauss Ein Heldenleben, and Mahler Symphony No. 2, a performance Classical Voice of North Carolina called "one that will be talked about and remembered for a long time."
Dedicated to the promotion of music education, Warren-Green plays a key role in the Charlotte Symphony's education efforts, including Project Harmony, an initiative aimed at providing music education in high-need areas of Charlottes. In London he works extensively with LCO's education program, Music Junction, which gathers together young people from different backgrounds to create mutual empathy and connection through music.
Previous seasons have seen Warren-Green at the helm of the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National orchestras, and the NHK, Singapore, Sapporo and KBS symphony orchestras. He has also conducted BBC Concert Orchestra and Royal Northern Sinfonia, as well as Sinfonia Varsovia for a commemorative concert in celebration of Yehudi Menuhin. Other collaborations include a tour of Japan with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and concerts with Zürcher Kammerorchester, RTÉ Symphony Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
Over the last 30 years Christopher Warren-Green has been personally invited to conduct for the Royal Family on many occasions. In April 2005, he conducted the Service of Dedication and Prayer following the marriage of TRH the Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall. He also led the London Chamber Orchestra during the marriage ceremony of TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey in 2011, which was broadcast to a global audience of 2 billion. Other notable occasions have included HM The Queen's 80th birthday celebrations at Kew Palace, and with the Philharmonia Orchestra he conducted HM The Queen's 90th birthday concert at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane as well as HRH The Prince of Wales' 60th birthday concert in Buckingham Palace.
Warren-Green is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and has recorded extensively for Sony, Phillips, Virgin EMI, Chandos, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and Signum Classics.
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