Selected achievements:

• Personnel

  • Conducted Leader search and provided several world-class candidates 

  • Appointed 7 new core players (including Leader, Associate Leader, 2 Principals, and 3 Sub-Principals)

  • Replaced existing substitute player list with ABMC's own player list

 

• Widespread critical acclaim for ABMC-affiliated recordings, including:

  •  Gramophone Magazine Critic's Choice 2017

    • Sawyers - Symphony no. 3

  • Forbes Magazine Best Classical Recordings of 2017

    • Krenek - Complete Piano Concertos, vol.2

  • "Premiere of the Year" from the Birmingham Post (2017 & 2016)

    • Joubert - Jane Eyre (2017)
    • Elgar/Fraser - Piano Quintet (2016)

  • "Record of the Year" MusicWeb

    • Joubert - Jane Eyre

    • An Eventful Morning in East London

  • "Best of 2016" from the Sunday Times

    • Krenek - Complete Piano Concertos, vol.1

  • Five Stars

    • Gál - Concertino for Cello & Strings (FonoForum)

    • An Eventful Morning in East London (the Times)

    • Joubert - Jane Eyre (Classical Ear)

    • Joubert - Jane Eyre world premiere performance (Birmingham Post)

    • Krenek - Complete Piano Concertos vol.1 (International Piano) 

 

• Notable Performances

  • 2017 Run for the Hills: Morgan Motors Fireworks Proms

    • Three County Showground, Malvern

  • 2017 Debuts 

    • Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

    • New Theatre Royal, Lincoln

    • Regal Theatre, Minehead

  • 2017 World Premieres

    • Symphony no.3 (Sawyers).  St John's Smith Square, London

    • Concerto for Trumpet, String, and Timpani (Sawyers).  Huntingdon Hall, Worcester  

  • 2016 Debuts 

    • Kings Place, London

    • Cheltenham Town Hall

    • Middleton Hall, Hull

  • 2016 World Premieres

    • Jane Eyre (Joubert).  Ruddock Performing Arts Centre, Birmingham.

    • Seven Halts on the Somme for Trumpet and Strings (Pritchard). Middleton Hall, Hull.

    • Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings (Borenstein).  Middleton Hall, Hull.

  • 2015 Elgar Pilgrimage Festival:

    • Hereford Cathedral, Malvern Theatres, Elgar Hall Birmingham

  • 2015 World Premieres

    • Elgar/Fraser Piano Quintet (orchestrated), world premiere.  Elgar Hall Birmingham

    • Songs of Loss and Regret (Sawyers).  Hereford Cathedral

    • Saint Blue for Trumpet, Piano, and Strings (Gordon). Elgar Hall Birmingham ​

 

• Educational projects between ABMC & ESO

  • Provided ABMC artist Simon Desbruslais for ESO-sponsored workshop at the King's School in Worcester, October 2017

  • ​Coached Worcestershire Youth String Orchestra for side-by-side performances with ESO, 2013 - 2017