Welcome - Meet Stewart Kershaw F.R.A.M.
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30th Avenue N.E. Seattle WA 98155 USA
206-362-1011
FAX 206-362-1430
| STEWART KERSHAW was born in Oxford, sang as a chorister in Chichester Cathedral, and studied at London's Royal Academy of Music where he was awarded several prizes in conducting. A French Government Scholarship allowed him further studies at the Paris Conservatoire under Manuel Rosenthal, in Venice with Franco Ferrara, and at the Tanglewood Summer Festival under Erich Leinsdorf. |
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He has held permanent posts at London's Royal Opera House, the Paris and Lyon Opera Houses in France, the Munich and Stuttgart Opera Houses in Germany, the Kyoto Symphony in Japan, the Evansville Philharmonic in the U.S.A as well as the Houston Ballet. He is currently Music Director for the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle and also the Auburn Symphony Orchestra which he leads in a series of concerts every year. |
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The Royal Academy in London made him an honorary Fellow in 1988 for his services to music around the world. As of 1999 he has conducted more than 75 orchestras in 23 countries. His languages are English, French and German. |
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A Compact Disc of French organ music with the Auburn Symphony was released on the Ambassador Label in 1997 and which received the following reviews: |
| FANFARE MAGAZINE |
| "splendid and vibrant performance that compares well with the Tracy/BBC Philharmonic/Tortelier. In fact the Auburn ensemble's reading of the beautiful Pastorale movement is even more expressive than the Chandos version". |
| AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE |
| "the orchestra has a wonderful sound" |
| "good intonation and sensitive musicianship" |
| "the orchestra sounds splendid, with outstanding solo passages" |
| "the brass group is excellent, the intonation impeccable" |
| "this orchestra definitely deserves an album all its own. Kershaw's direction and control are those of a seasoned professional" |
| SEATTLE TIMES |
| "a disc of particular interest" |
| "the Auburn Symphony already sounds like a seasoned ensemble that plays with bold confidence" |
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SEATTLE WEEKLY |
| "Kershaw leads a brilliantly idiomatic performance, the ASO's strings tight as a drum" |
| "rounding out this eclectic disc are two speaker testers... |
| "The new Auburn Symphony, under the baton of Stewart Kershaw, whose new compact disc shows it's already a symphony of distinction." |
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Mr. Kershaw was in London in May 1999 with the BBC Concert Orchestra recording the complete Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as other Mendelssohn works for the BBC HDTV film to be released later this year. It is hoped that a 2 CD Set of this music will also be made available at the same time as the film. |
| This conductor enjoys an extremely large repertoire that covers the entire symphonic repertoire as well as that of the ballet world. |
| Although this conductor is contractually engaged during the season at the Seattle Opera House and with the Auburn Symphony Orchestra, he is nevertheless available for several months every year to guest conduct with any symphony orchestra or ballet company that might need his services. |
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enquiries should be made to: Stewart Kershaw
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19703 30th Ave N.E. | ||
| Seattle WA 98155 USA | |||
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| Various BBC Orchestras (U.K.) | Evansville Philharmonic |
| Birmingham Symphony (U.K.) | Palm Beach Symphony |
| Japan Philharmonic (Tokyo) | Austin Symphony |
| Kyoto Symphony (Japan) | Hartford Symphony |
| Lyon Philharmonic (France) | Des Moines Symphony |
| Perth Symphony (Australia) | Grant Park (Chicago) |
| CAPAB, South Africa | Queens Symphony (N.Y.) |
| Strasbourg Philharmonic | Seattle Symphony |
| Vancouver Symphony | Dayton Philharmonic |
| Victoria Symphony | Richmond Symphony, Virginia. |
| Mannheim Symphony (Germany) | Indianapolis Symphony |
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