Andrew Shulman

Andrew Shulman, first British winner of the Piatigorsky Artist Award, has performed extensively in the UK, Germany, Ireland and Scandinavia, directing the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Haydn, Mahler, Mozart, Sibelius and Tchaikovsky. The conductor Andrew Shulman really carried the orchestra along... like a British Leornard Bernstein whose brilliance was still burning in Haydn's Philosopher Symphony. He has given performances of Haydn's symphonies under the auspices of H.C. Robbins Landon at the Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, with the Britten-Pears Orchestra, and has conducted the premieres of several orchestral works, including the first ever performances of a previously unpublished work by Benjamin Britten, also with the BPO.

Douglas Boyd

Douglas Boyd is currently Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of Manchester Camerata, Principal Guest Conductor of City of London Sinfonia, and an Artistic Partner of St Paul Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota. In 2009 he will become Principal Guest Conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of Musikkollegium Winterthur in Switzerland. Recent débuts in the US have been with the Baltimore and Seattle Symphony Orchestras and future engagements include the Colorado, Detroit, Dallas, Toronto and Indeanopolis Symphony Orchestras. In Europe and beyond he has conducted the Orchestre Nationale de Lyon, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Future performances include concerts with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Gurzenich Orchestra Cologne, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In 2006 he conducted the Chamber Orchestra of Europe's 25th anniversary tour, and will conduct the orchestra in Minnesota in January 2009 as part of an International Festival of Chamber Orchestras. In the UK he has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, BBC Symphony, Philharmonic and Scottish Symphony Orchestras. Future engagements include concerts with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Irish Chamber Orchestra, and the Ulster Orchestra. He makes his Opera in 2008 conducting Die Zauberflöte for Glyndebourne on Tour.