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Mark Heron Mark Heron is a young Scottish conductor known for dynamic performances across an unusually wide range of repertoire. He is the music director of the Nottingham Philharmonic, University of Manchester Symphony, and Liverpool Mozart Orchestras. As a member of the conducting faculty at the Royal Northern College of Music, Mark works regularly with the full range of the college’s orchestras and ensembles. As a guest conductor he made his debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008, and will appear with them again in 2009. Other orchestras with whom he has worked include Pori Sinfonietta (Finland), St Petersburg Festival Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Pärnu Philharmonic (Estonia). Dedicated to working with young musicians, in addition to his work at the RNCM Mark has worked with ensembles from the Royal Academy of Music, Tilburg & Maastricht Conservatories (Netherlands), National Youth Wind Orchestra of Israel, Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and Young Sinfonia. Mark has a keen interest in contemporary music and has given world premieres of many important works. He has collaborated with leading composers such as Magnus Lindberg, James McMillan, Mark Anthony Turnage, Giya Kancheli, Unsuk Chin, Kalevi Aho, Detlev Glanert and many others. In 2006 he gave the European premiere of American composer Daron Hagen’s opera, Bandanna. To date he has recorded 5 compact discs with the RNCM Wind Orchestra featuring contemporary wind repertoire. Mark studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama and the RNCM. Following a successful chamber music career and freelance work with many of the UK’s professional symphony orchestras, he undertook conducting studies at the RNCM and has worked intensively in master classes with Neeme & Paavo Järvi, Jorma Panula, and Sir Mark Elder. In 2005 Mark was awarded first prize in the Neeme Järvi conducting competition and in 2006 he worked with Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra as one of three young conductors selected by the orchestra for their mentoring programme. Alongside his conducting engagements, Mark teaches conducting at the RNCM within the college’s Junior Fellowship, Masters, and External Studies programmes and also at Manchester University, Canford Summer School and the Royal Air Force. Mark first conducted the LMO in 2003 and has been its Music Director since 2005.
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