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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 both the Charlotte Symphony in North Carolina and Music Director and Principal Conductor of the London Chamber Orchestra.

In the 2019/20 season, he leads the London Chamber Orchestra on an extensive tour of South-East Asia, with performances in Laos, Thailand, Brunei, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam which follows various engagements in the Far East including NHK, Singapore, Sapporo and KBS symphony orchestras. Other collaborations in the region include a tour of Japan with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and this season he makes his debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Warren-Green opens the London season with the London Chamber Orchestra featuring music by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Daniel Kidane and new orchestrations of songs by Prince Albert commemorating 200 years since the birth of Queen Victoria’s beloved Prince Consort. Previous seasons in the UK have seen Warren-Green at the helm of the Philharmonia, London Philharmonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Royal Scottish National orchestras.He opens the season with Charlotte Symphony with an all-Tchaikovsky programme featuring Inon Barnatan as soloist, the season also including a performance of Beethoven’s monumental Missa Solemnis. Other featured composers include Sibelius, Delius and Debussy. Having worked extensively in North American, key engagements have included The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Detroit, Houston, St. Louis, Toronto, Milwaukee, Seattle and Vancouver symphony orchestras, the Minnesota Orchestra and Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra.

He opens the season with Charlotte Symphony with an all-Tchaikovsky programme featuring Inon Barnatan as soloist, the season also including a performance of Beethoven’s monumental Missa Solemnis. Other featured composers include Sibelius, Delius and Debussy. Having worked extensively in North American, key engagements have included The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Detroit, Houston, St. Louis, Toronto, Milwaukee, Seattle and Vancouver symphony orchestras, the Minnesota Orchestra and Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra.

In Europe he recently made his debut with Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra – of his performance the Tampere Aamulehti awarded a 5‑star review and subsequently he has been invited to return to the orchestra each year. Elsewhere in Europe he has worked with Orchestre National de Belgique, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, the Zürcher Kammerorchester, RTÉ Symphony and Iceland Symphony orchestras and will make his debut with Oulu Symphony this season.

In addition to his international commitments, he has been invited to conduct by the Royal Family on many occasions, including at the weddings of TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey in 2011 and TRH The Duke and Duchess of Sussex at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in 2018. He conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra for HM The Queen’s 90^th birthday concert at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as well as HRH The Prince of Wales’ 60^th birthday concert in Buckingham Palace.

A violinist by training, his early education began as a member of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra, and he eventually took up the position concertmaster of the Philharmonia Orchestra. He has recorded extensively for Sony, Philips, Virgin EMI, Chandos, Decca and Deutsche Grammophon, and 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)