Martyn Brabbins

Education
Composition (London) and conducting (Sint-Petersburg)

Career
Associated with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Head of the Huddersfield Choral Society, 1994 – now
Artistic director of the Cheltenham International Festival of Music, 2005 – 2007
First guest conductor of deFilharmonie, 2009 – now
Specialised in contemporary music

Highlights
The Second Mrs Kong(Harrison Birtwistle), semi-staged with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, 2004

Prizes
First prize Leeds Conductors' Competition, 1988

Recordings
Recordings of romantic concert music (Hyperion), works of Bedford and Finnissy (NMC), Rachmaninov and Skrjabin (Collins Classics) and Britten (Naxos).

Worked with
Bayerischer Rundfunk, Deutsche Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the symphonic orchestra’s of St Petersburg, the Orchestra of NDR Hamburg, London Sinfonietta, the Ensemble Modern, the Ensemble InterContemporain, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Recent and future productions
Wozzeck(staging: Guy Joosten) (Vlaamse Opera); Rumor (Vlaamse Opera)
Chief conductor Nagoya Philharmonic (Japan), 2013