Sir Neville Marriner

Conductor

Sir Neville´s career developed from the encouragement of a musical family, and continued through a long association with the Royal College of Music in London, as both violin student and professor.

His conducting career was initiated by Pierre Monteux , the French “maitre”, who taught many conductors of the present generation.

In 1959, a group of London musicians headed by Neville Marriner, formed the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which quickly became an influential ensemble in the Performance of seventeenth and eighteenth century music.

Nowadays, the Academy embraces a comprehensive repertoire of chamber music, symphonic, choral and operatic works, and its heavy concert, festival, touring and recording commitments account for about 30% of Sir Neville´s schedule.

The rest of his working life is devotetd to longstanding associations with the symphony orchestras of Europe, America and the Far East, with occasional excursions into the opera house.

SEASON 2009/2010