Paul McCreesh
"…McCreesh's great and defining gift is a startling ability to marry erudition and imagination to revelatory effect ….even greater things can be expected…"
Featured as one of the top 100 conductors of the twentieth century - Classic CD Magazine
Paul McCreesh, founder and Artistic Director of the Gabrieli Consort & Players, has established himself at the highest level in the period instrument field and is recognised for his authoritative and innovative performances on the concert platform and in the opera house. Together with the Gabrieli Consort & Players, he has performed in major concert halls and festivals across the world and has built a large and distinguished discography for Deutsche Grammophon.
Paul McCreesh now works regularly with modern instrument orchestras. Recent engagements have included Stavanger Symphony, WDR Köln, Orquesta Nacional de España, Monte Carlo Philharmonic, Gothenburg Symphony and Stockholm Philharmonic. Further to these successes, McCreesh has developed a core of strong relationships with orchestras that he conducts several times each season, including the Netherlands Philharmonic, Orchestra Sinfonica dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma, Kammerorchester Basel and l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Debuts and return visits in forthcoming seasons include concerts with Budapest Festival Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, Malmö Symphony, Bern Symphony and the Tonhalle, Zürich.
McCreesh has established a strong reputation in the field of opera and in 2008 he will conduct two Handel operas for the Teatro Real, Madrid. Making his debut in a new production of Tamerlano with a cast that includes Placido Domingo, McCreesh will return to the same house later in the year with Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. For WNO he has conducted Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice and Handel's Jephtha to considerable critical praise and has also conducted Mozart and Handel at the Royal Danish Opera and Komische Oper, Berlin.
At the start of 2006, Paul McCreesh was appointed Artistic Director of Wratislawia Cantans in Wrocław, Poland. This festival is one of Eastern Europe's most prestigious and vital cultural events. Performances of Mozart's C Minor Mass and Haydn's Creation in 2006 were followed in 2007 with performances of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Brahms' Requiem among other works. McCreesh also continues his artistic directorship of the Brinkburn Summer Music Festival held at Brinkburn Priory in Northumberland, UK, which he founded in 1993.
Paul McCreesh is represented by Jessica Ford at Intermusica.