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Earlier this month Simon Foster joined our reviewing team and now we are
pleased to welcome Christopher Fifield.
Christopher is foremost a conductor but also a writer on music history
(Grove, Grove Opera, DNB, Viking Opera Guide, Oxford Companion to Music),
the author of two biographies (Bruch - Gollancz 1988 and Hans Richter
OUP 1993), one of the contributors to Yale University Press' Wagner in
Performance and is in the process of writing a history of the music agents
Ibbs & Tillett commissioned by the Tillett Trust and to be published by
Ashgate (formerly Scolar) Press.
He writes booklet notes for Philips, EMI, Chandos, cpo etc; was a reviewer
for the BBC Music Magazine from its inception until the summer of 1999 and
now reviews for Classical Express and the Elgar Society. He has also
written book reviews for Gramophone Magazine, the Elgar Society and Wagner
Society Newsletters and Classical Music Fortnightly.
His past conducting activities were 3 years Deputy Music Director at
Capetown's Opera, 12 years a member of Glyndebourne, 10 years as Director
of Music at University College London, 6 years with the Northampton
Symphony Orchestra and Central Festival Opera. He is currently Music
Director of the Lambeth Orchestra the Jubilate Choir and Chelsea Opera
Group as their chorus master, as guest chorus master to Brighton Festival
Chorus and the London Symphony Chorus.
Len Mullenger
Webmaster for Music on the Web (UK)
www.musicweb.uk.net
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