Henry Bicket artistic director

The English Concert is among the world’s leading chamber orchestra, renowned for over 30 years for outstanding interpretations of Baroque and Classical music in concert and on CD. Each season the orchestra presents a prestigious series of concerts in London, at Wigmore Hall and Cadogan Hall, appearing also at major London festivals, including the BBC Proms, the Spitafields Festival and the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music. The orchestra tours extensively at home and abroad. In the UK it visits the major summer festivals and has developed a close relationship with St George’s Bristol where it appears each year. Internationally it tours to four continents: since 2005 it has visited the United States, Australia, Korea and Malaysia, in addition to ten European countries. In September 2007 Harry Bicket becomes the third artistic director in the orchestra’s 34-year history, when he opens the new season at Cadogan Hall with a programme of Mozart and Haydn with soprano Rosemary Joshua.

Sample Programme:

J Haydn: Symphonies nos. 6, 7, and 8
Vivaldi: Flute concerto in G minor La Notte

Education:

Orchestral training projects with Trinity College of Music.

Recordings:

Mozart Violin Concertos and Orchestral Music (HMU 907385)
Vivaldi Concertos for the Emperor (HMU 907332)
Biber Missa Christi Resurgentis wq183 (HMU 907397)
CPE Bach Cello Concerto and Symphonies
Handel Arias with Mark Padmore

Performances:

18 Aug 07 BBC Proms
12 Sep 07 Cadogan Hall
17 Oct 07 Wigmore Hall
19 Oct 07 St George’s Bristol
5 Nov 07 Banqueting House Whitehall
9 Nov 07 Royal Naval College Greenwich
29 Nov 07 Cadogan Hall
20 Feb 08 Wigmore Hall
14 Mar 08 St George’s Bristol
25 May 08 Wigmore Hall
27 May 08 St George’s Bristol
15 Jun 08 Wigmore Hall

Contact:

Felix Warnock, 8 St George’s Terrace,
London NW1 8XJ

Tel: 020 7911 0905
Fax: 020 7911 0904

Email: felix@englishconcert.co.uk
Website: www.englishconcert.co.uk