Rumon Gamba

Rumon Gamba (born 1973 ) is a British conductor. He has made himself especially with his recordings of classic British film music an international name.

Life

Training

Rumon Gamba studied music at the University of Durham and then conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where Colin Metters, George Hurst and Sir Colin Davis were among his teachers. Gamba was the first Dirigierstudent, who received the Dipram, the diploma of the Royal Academy of Music ( " Royal Academy of Music performer 's diploma" ). In addition, he was promoted, among others, with the Henry Wood Scholarship and the Bob Harding scholarship. These awards meant that he was later appointed conductor of the Ipswich Orchestral Society assistant conductor of the Havant Symphony Orchestra and the British Youth Opera, as well. He has conducted at festivals in Ashover, Lichfield, Newbury and Wraysbury.

Career as a conductor

1997 Rumon Gamba was invited as a representative of Great Britain at the International Master Class for Conductors (International Master Class for Conductors ) participate in St. Petersburg. And the following year he won the BBC Young Musicians Lloyds Bank Conductors Workshop in Manchester. Then he received the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, a position as assistant conductor ( BBC Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Lloyds Bank ) and later became the Second conductors ( Associate Conductor ) appointed. At the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, he remained until 2002. From 2002 to 2010 he was then as Principal Conductor and Music Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra ( Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands ) active, with whom he went on an international tour. Since 2009 he works in the same capacity at Symfoniorkestern Norrlandsoperan.

In addition to this main activity has Rumon Gamba, who has been appointed a member of the Royal Academy of Music in 2002, since 1998, conducts not only the most renowned orchestras of Britain - including the BBC Concert Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Manchester Camerata and the English National Opera - but as a guest conductor with many orchestras worked abroad. These include the Munich Philharmonic, the NDR Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra Trondheim, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden - Baden und Freiburg, Orchestre National de Belgique, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Center Orchestra Ottawa, the New York Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, Gamba has worked with all the major Australian orchestras and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. As a guest conductor he has also appeared with the symphony orchestras of Hong Kong, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo.

Gamba has a number of world premieres conducted, including those in 2005 by Brett Dean's Viola Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Per Nørgård oratorio The Will- o' -the- Wisps Go to Town with The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Several times, he has also tried to Leonard Bernstein's musical / operetta Candide, as in 2005, when he conducted the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in a performance of the orchestral version, and 2008, when he was in a performance by the English National Opera at the Coliseum Theatre London made ​​his operatic debut.

Recording activities

Since 1999 Rumon Gamba undertakes exclusively for the British label Chandos Records regular CD recordings. International awareness and attention have primarily his new recordings of classic British film scores found that he usually performs with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. These include works by Richard Addinsell, John Addison, William Alwyn, Malcolm Arnold, Georges Auric, Sir Arnold Bax, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Sir Arthur Bliss, Francis Chagrin, Brian Easdale, Ron Goodwin, Christopher Gunning, Constant Lambert, Lord Berners, Clifton Parker, Alan Rawsthorne, Mischa Spoliansky and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

The spectrum is very broad - it ranges from music to films about war that of the classic comedies of Ealing studios to the British productions of Walt Disney. Many of the selections are first recordings off of the original recordings for the film soundtrack. Gamba works in cooperation with arrangers such as Philip Lane as original scores for the most part no longer exist and therefore patient work must be directly " eavesdropped " movie soundtracks. With his film music recordings include Rumon Gamba moved so that the successor Charles Gerhardt, who had contributed in 1972 with his film music records significantly to the rediscovery of classical Hollywood compositions of the 1930s and 1940s.

Occasionally, Gamba also accepts composers who have written in the U.S. film music, as Bernard Herrmann and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, of which he, among others, in 2007 with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the music for The Lord of the Seven Seas ( The Sea Hawk, 1940) has recorded.

In addition, Gamba but also recorded a number of orchestral works Malcolm Arnold as well as those of Eric Coates, Miklós Rózsa and David Matthews. With the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra, he has also recorded orchestral works by Malcolm Williamson and Vincent d' Indy for Chandos.

Awards

  • 2007: The Film Music of Erich Korngold, Volume 2

Discography

  • The Film Music of Georges Auric, 1999 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Alan Rawsthorne, 2000 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold, Vol 2, 2000 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, 2000 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of William Alwyn, Vol 2, 2001 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Sir Arthur Bliss, 2001 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Arnold: Symphonies 7, 8 & 9, 2001 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Symphonic Eric Coates, 2002 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams Volume 1, 2002 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Richard Addinsell, 2003 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Gordon Langford 's Orchestral Classics, 2003 - with the BBC Concert Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Sir Arnold Bax, 2003 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Volume 2, 2004 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Ron Goodwin, 2004 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Clifton Parker, 2005 - with the BBC Concert Orchestra
  • Malcolm Arnold: Overtures, 2005 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Francis Chagrin, 2005 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 2005 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of William Alwyn, Vol 3, 2005 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Malcolm Williamson Orchestral Works, Vol.1, 2006 - with the Icelandic Philharmonic
  • The Film Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Vol 3, 2006 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Malcolm Williamson Orchestral Works, Vol 2, 2007 - with the Icelandic Philharmonic
  • "Fantasy Triomphale " - Works for Organ and Orchestra, 2007 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of John Addison, 2007 - with the BBC Concert Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Volume 2, 2007 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Vincent d' Indy: Orchestral Works, Vol 1, 2008 - with the Icelandic Philharmonic
  • The Film Music of Constant Lambert and Lord Berners, 2008 - with the BBC Concert Orchestra
  • Miklós Rózsa: Orchestral Works, Vol 1, 2008 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • David Matthews: Orchestral Works, 2009 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Vincent d' Indy: Orchestral Works, Vol 2, 2009 - with the Icelandic Philharmonic
  • The Film Music of Mischa Spoliansky, 2009 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Arnold: Ballet Music, 2009 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Bernard Herrmann, 2010 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Vincent d' Indy: Orchestral Works, Vol 3, 2010 - with the Icelandic Philharmonic
  • Geoffrey Burgon Concerto Disc, 2010 - the City of London Sinfonia
  • The Film and TV Music of Christopher Gunning, 2010 - with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
  • The Film Music of Brian Easdale, 2011 - with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
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