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Jeremy Backhouse
Guildford
Jeremy Backhouse began his musical career in Canterbury
‘Philharmonic
Cathedral where he was Head Chorister, and later studied music
Tonight’s concert is the final celebration of the 50th season
of the Guildford Philharmonic and commemorates the end
of the 2nd World War. The Orchestra was founded in 1945
by Guildford Borough Council under the Directorship of
Crossley Clitheroe. Following his death, Vernon Handley
directed the Orchestra for 21 years; he is now Conductor
Emeritus. Sir Charles Groves and Sir Alexander Gibson held
the position of Principal Conductor between 1986 and
1994. En Shao, the young dynamic Chinese conductor has
now been appointed Principal Conductor.
Guildford
Philharmonic’s
regular strength
of 75
professional musicians perform an annual season of
concerts at the Civic Hall. These concerts attract national
attention. A varied repertoire each season reflects the
Orchestra’s desire to appeal to all music lovers and to suit
all tastes.
Special concerts for children form part of the Orchestra’s
programme.
The ‘Adopt a Player’ scheme introduces school
children to the musicians and the orchestral repertoire.
Workshops promoted in association with the County Music
Inspectorate help to cultivate composition skills amongst
GCSE music students.
Guildford Philharmonic
is funded
and promoted
by
Guildford Borough with assistance from South East Arts,
South East Music Trust, the Musicians’ Union and the
Philharmonic Society. Sponsorship forms an important part
of the Orchestra’s financial strategy. The Orchestra is
grateful to Hays plc and Barclay’s Bank plc for their financial
assistance towards tonight’s concert.
at Liverpool University. He spent five years as Music Editor at the
Royal National Institute for the Blind, where he was responsible
for the transcription of print into Braille. In 1986 he joined EMI
Records as a Literary Editor and since April 1990 he has
combined his work as a Consultant Editor for EMI Classics with
his career as a freelance musician.
Between 1991 and 1995, he was Music Director of both the
Streatham Choral Society and the BBC Club Choir, working
closely with the Kensington Symphony Orchestra, the Amoeba
Orchestra and the Surrey Sinfonietta. Jeremy is also the conductor
of the Vasari Singers, widely acknowledged as one of the finest
chamber choirs in the country. Since winning the prestigious
Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year competition in 1988, they have
performed regularly on the South Bank and at St John’s Smith
Square in London, as well as in the cathedrals of Canterbury,
Winchester, Hereford, Ely and Peterborough. Each year on
Christmas Eve, the choir sings Midnight Mass at Westmin
Abbey. Jeremy and the choir have broadcast frequently on .
Radios 3 and 4, and have made a number of recordings on both
the EMI Eminence and United labels.
In January 1995, Jeremy was appointed Chorus Master of the
Guildford Philharmonic Choir, and in April worked for the first
time with the BBC Singers in a programme of works by Lennox
Berkeley to be broadcast later this year.
Anthony Inglis
Anthony Inglis was born in England and educated on a music
scholarship at Marlborough College and at The Royal College of
Music where he won the Ricordi Conducting Prize and the Sir
Adrian Boult Conducting Scholarship on three separate
occasions. Since then he has moved on to conduet many
internationally known orchestras including the London
Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Royal
Philharmonic, English Chamber, Hallé, Liverpool Phil, BBC
Philharmonic and BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
He can frequently be found in some
of the world’s major concert
Vernon Handley (President)
Jeremy Backhouse (Chorus Director)
Jeremy Filsell (Accompanist)
The Guildford Philharmonic Choir was formed by Guildford
Borough in order to perform the major choral repertoire
with the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra. As well as
- performing well-known choral works, the choir specializes
in twentieth century British music and this has led to
recordings of Gerald Finzi’'s Intimations of Immortality
with the Guildford Philharmonic and Patrick Hadley’s The
Trees So High with the Philharmonia Orchestra, both
recordings being conducted by Vernon Handley.
The Choir is conducted by some of the most eminent
halls conducting in countries such as Belgium, Poland, Italy,
Holland, Israel, Australia, Canada, Eire, Czechoslovakia and Hong
Kong, as well as most of the regular venues in his native UK.
He has conducted two Royal concerts: one, with the RPO, in the
presence of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh; the
other, a dance gala with The Royal Ballet Sinfonia, in the prcsc/\
of HRH The Princess of Wales.
Beyond the traditional concert circuit Anthony Inglis’s career has
encompassed many aspects of music. On film: working on Ken
Russell’s biographies of Mahler and Liszt. In theatre: conducting
the great Tschaikovsky ballets for the Birmingham Royal Ballet
and English National Ballet, and he is currently the Music
Supervisor of ‘Phantom of the Opera’in London and Manchester.
On video: conducting the Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall.
On television: conducting a concert from the Concertgebouw,
musicians, and as well as giving frequent concerts in
‘Guildford, the Choir occasionally visits other British cities.
Amsterdam; and with the Ulster Orchestra from Belfast.
In 1988 the Guildford Philharmonic Choir visited Paris, in
on Hong Kong, Dutch Swedish and Norwegian radios and the
1990 joined forces with the Freiburger BachChor in
Freiburg Munster and in November 1993 gave an
outstanding performance of Brittens War Requiem also
with the Freiburger BachChor under Neville Creed.
Anthony Inglis’s studio and concert recordings have been heard
UK’s BBC and Capital Radios, whilst on CD he is represented by
recordings with the London Symphony, London Mozart Players,
Jeremy Backhouse was appointed Chorus Director in
January of this year, succeeding Neville Creed who held the
Philharmonia, Netherlands Radio Symphony, Israel Philharmonic,
Royal Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, Cracow Radio
Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Slovack Philharmonic
Orchestras.
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Mr. Inglis was a 1993 Grammy award nominee.
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