Martyn Brabbins

Martyn Brabbins ( born August 13, 1959) is an English conductor.

Brabbins studied composition in London and then in Leningrad with Ilya Musin conducting. In 1988, he won first place in the conducting competition in Leeds. After that, he conducted most of the major orchestra in the UK, but also the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

As a conductor of chamber music ensembles and opera conductor Brabbins made ​​a name for himself. He has conducted, among others at the German Opera Berlin The Prince of Homburg, Franz Schreker The distant sound at Opera North, David Sawer's From Morning to Midnight and Michael Tippett's oratorio A Child of Our Time at the English National Opera, Dallapiccola's Volo di notte and Il Prigioniero at the Frankfurt Opera (2004 ), Alexander Knaifel Alice in Wonderland at the De Nederlandse Opera and Péter Eötvös ' I Tri Sestri at the Hamburg State Opera.

From 1994 to 2005 he was an integral Guest Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, since he has been Artistic Director of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music. In addition, he also conducted the London Sinfonietta, Ensemble Modern and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and was from 1999 to 2004 conductor of the series Music of Today.

His repertoire includes the great 19th-century romantic as Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten and William Walton. Above all, he has, however, made ​​a name for itself as a specialist in new music. He led, inter alia, Compositions on by James Dillon, Jonathan Lloyd, James MacMillan, Minna Keal, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Michael Finnissy, Carsten Hennig and Harrison Birtwistle.

• Conductor
• Briton
• Born in 1959
• Man