Christopher Warren-Green

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“What a concert! The British maestro inspired the Tampere Philharmonic into a warm glow and wonderful solos… I can’t remember the last time I heard such a lively and dramatic ‘En Saga’. Warren-Green allowed the few big climaxes of the work to erupt thunderously, and at the same time he tended the continuity in the more understated sections.”
(Tampere Aamulehti)

Music Director: Charlotte Symphony Orchestra
Music Director & Principal Conductor: London Chamber Orchestra

Christopher Warren-Green is Music Director of the Charlotte Symphony in North Carolina and Music Director and Principal Conductor of the London Chamber Orchestra. Working extensively in the US, key North American engagements have included The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Detroit, St. Louis, Toronto, Milwaukee, Seattle and Vancouver symphony orchestras, the Minnesota Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra Washington D.C.

In 2017/18 Warren-Green will take the London Chamber Orchestra to the Enescu Festival in Bucharest in an eclectic programme featuring the Music of Enescu, Benjamin, Mozart and Fitkin. He will also make his debut with the Tampere Philharmonic performing works by Sibelius, Stravinsky and Bartok. Last season he returned to Orchestre National de Belgique, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Beethoven Orchester Bonn and he made debuts with the Nashville Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic orchestras.

Previous seasons have seen Warren-Green at the helm of the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National orchestras, and the NHK, Singapore, Sapporo and KBS symphony orchestras. Other collaborations include a tour of Japan with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and concerts with Zürcher Kammerorchester, RTÉ Symphony Orchestra and Iceland Symphony Orchestra.

Warren-Green plays a key role in LCO Music Junction. This ground-breaking project, which reached over 3,000 young people in the South of England last season, brings together children in the UK from different backgrounds through a series of interactive workshops.

Over the last 30 years Christopher Warren-Green has been personally invited to conduct for the Royal Family on many occasions. He led the London Chamber Orchestra during the marriage ceremony of TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey in 2011, which was broadcast to a global audience of two billion and with the Philharmonia Orchestra he conducted HM The Queen’s 90^th birthday concert at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

Warren-Green is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and has recorded extensively for Sony, Phillips, Virgin EMI, Chandos, Decca and Deutsche Grammophon. He also records with the London Chamber Orchestra for Signum Classics.

Christopher Warren-Green - Beethoven: Egmont Overture (excerpt) © LCO Live

“This moving evening of music was capped by a stunning performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Dona Nobis Pacem,” with the crack Providence Singers joining the orchestra. The much-recorded British conductor Christopher Warren-Green, maestro for royal weddings, was on the podium. And after a Beethoven overture that was a tad too polite, he presided over a heartfelt rendition of the wistful Elgar Cello Concerto, with Philharmonic favorite Colin Carr tackling the solo parts…This was by far the best program of the season”

(Channing Gray, Providence Journal, November 2018)

“Warren-Green was transported at one point to leap into the air, and the collective power of his “Lord of Lords” sent chills through me.”

(CVNC, December 2017)

“The maestro certainly sparked a fleet, zesty performance from the orchestra, especially the trumpets and the trombones, who brought gilded fire to the heraldic episodes.”

(BroadwayWorld, December 2017)

“What a concert! The British maestro inspired the Tampere Philharmonic into a warm glow and wonderful solos […] under the baton of Christopher Warren-Green ”En saga” by Sibelius grew into a magical story. The hall was filled with a warm, colourful and wonderfully sparkling sound, which exactly corresponded with the mystical and even tempestuous story of ”En saga”. I can’t remember the last time I heard such a lively and dramatic ”En saga”. Warren-Green allowed the few big climaxes of the work erupt thunderously, and at the same time he tended the continuity in the more understated sections.” *****

(Harri Hautala, Tampere Aamulehti, November 2017)

“[The Dvorak]… had a lot of edge, a lot of energy and sweep. The slow movement was spellbinding, giving way to a driving scherzo and a blazing finale. It was a memorable performance.”

(Providence Journal, January 2016)

“From the first slow notes [of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony] … Warren-Green had the confidence to build gradually, trusting us to stay with him. The warm, weighty opening came to full speed slowly, like a locomotive picking up steam as it climbed a long grade. The second movement burst forward like an undammed brook; the musicians played with such fervor they had to retune when it ended.”

(Charlotte Observer, November 2015)

“As for Dvorak’s Ninth (or “New World”) Symphony, conductor Christopher Warren-Green and the orchestra summoned up all of the appropriate drama on the work’s opening movement, sections and soloists stepping forward for consistently impressive turns.”

(Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press, February 2015)