Alpesh 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, {…}
(Credit: Patrick Allen) Alpesh Chauhan has extended his contract as Principal Guest Conductor of the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker. The conductor will continue with the orchestra for a further three seasons until 2027. Chauhan made his debut with the orchestra in 2018 and has since appeared with the orchestra in a variety of repertoire. In a statement, Chauhan said, “I am thrilled {…}
A shortlist of this year’s Royal Philharmonic Society Award recipients has been released. For the purposes of this article only opera related nominees are included. The full list can be found here. Chamber-Scale Composition Nilufar Habibian – “Az nahāyate tāriki” (“From the deep end of darkness”) Conductor Alice Farnham; Alpesh Chauhan; François-Xavier Roth Ensemble BBC Singers; Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective Impact {…}
(Credit: Patrick Allen) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has announced that Alpesh Chauhan has been appointed the new Associate Conductor. Chauhan has performed a wide-ranging repertoire with the BBC SSO, which includes works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Gustav Mahler, Benjamin Britten, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Jan Sibelius, and Leoš Janáček, among others. “I’m so excited to be taking up this position with {…}
The winners of the 23rd South Bank Sky Awards were announced on July 7, 2019 during a ceremony at the Savoy Hotel in London. The Sky Awards are unique in that they “celebrate every genre of the arts, including pop, dance, opera, comedy, and TV,” according to Sky News. “British culture is really thriving right now, and this year’s Awards nominees reflect the {…}