Christopher Warren-Green
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Christopher Warren-Green

Conductor
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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)

Conductor Laureate and Artistic Advisor: Charlotte Symphony Orchestra
Music Director and Principal Conductor: London Chamber Orchestra

British conductor Christopher Warren-Green is Music Director of the London Chamber Orchestra in the UK. He is Conductor Laureate and Artistic Adviser to the Charlotte Symphony in North Carolina following a twelve-year tenure as Music Director. He is Chair of the Foundation for Young Musicians. 

In 2022 Warren-Green celebrated a professional career spanning 50 years during which he has conducted eminent orchestras around the world, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit, Houston, St Louis, Toronto, Milwaukee, Seattle and Vancouver symphony orchestras, and the National Symphony Orchestra Washington D.C. 

In the UK, he has worked with the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National orchestras. In Europe, he has conducted Orchestre National de Belgique, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, Orchestre National de Montpelier, Zürcher Kammerorchester, RTÉ Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra and in East Asia the Hong Kong Philharmonic, NHK Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon, Singapore, Sapporo and KBS symphony orchestras. 

Christopher Warren-Green
Christopher Warren-Green

In addition to his international commitments, he has been invited to conduct at the wedding services of HM King Charles III and HM Queen Camilla at St. George’s Chapel Windsor in 2005, TRH The Prince and Princess of Wales at Westminster Abbey in 2011 and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at St George’s Chapel Windsor in 2018. He conducted the London Chamber Orchestra on the occasion of HM Queen Elizabeth’s 80th birthday and the Philharmonia Orchestra for Her Majesty’s 90th birthday concert at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, HM King Charles’s 60th birthday concert in Buckingham Palace and on many other Royal occasions.

As a conductor he has recorded extensively for Sony, Philips, Virgin, EMI, Chandos, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and records with the London Chamber Orchestra for Signum Classics. As a soloist he has recorded Mendelssohn Mozart and Vivaldi concerti and appeared as soloist extensively in Europe most notably with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the Fields in the Berlin Philharmonie.

Warren-Green began his career at the age of 17 and aged 21 was named Concertmaster of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, followed by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Ricardo Muti aged 25 and later concertmaster of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner. He has served as a juror for many international competitions including the Prague Spring Conducting, the Wieniawski Violin and Hong Kong Piano competitions. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, having been a professor there for eight years, and has appeared and presented numerous times on television and radio, most notably for the BBC Proms.

HarrisonParrott represents Christopher Warren-Green for worldwide general management.

Christopher Warren-Green
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)
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