Alpesh Chauhan Joins Askonas Holt for General Management
By Francisco SalazarAlpesh Chauhan has joined the roster of Askonas Holt for general management.
Olivia Lyndon-Jones and Philip Keegan will manage him.
Chauhan is the Music Director of the Birmingham Opera Company and Principal Guest Conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker.
As Music Director of the Birmingham Opera Company, the conductor has championed a unique approach to bringing opera to the wider community. In 2021, he showcased “RhineGold” and was named Newcomer of the Year at the 2021 International Opera Awards for the company’s production of “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.”
A Muscic Director of the Düsseldorf orchestra, he opened the season with Korngold’s Symphony and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.2 and has performed Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” with Karen Cargill and Simon O’Neill alongside the world premiere of a new work for trumpet and orchestra by Kareem Roustom.
He has also performed with the Stavanger, Detroit, and Vancouver symphonies, Orchestre National de Belgique, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and PhilZuid. He has also led the Melbourne and Adelaide Symphony Orchestras, the BBC Philharmonic, Ulster Orchestra, and Orchestra della Fenice.
In 2022, Chauhan received an OBE for his services to the arts.
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