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Richard Hickox |
(b Stokenchurch, 5 March 1948). English conductor. He studied at the RAM and Cambridge University. He is music director of the City of London Sinfonia and the London Symphony Chorus and became associate conductor of the LSO in 1985. He has worked with orchestras in Europe and America and became principal guest conductor of the Bournemouth SO in 1992. He is best known for his interpretations of British music and his conducting of 18th-century opera.
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Richard Hickox
He founded the City of London Sinfonia in 1971, whose music director he has been since then, and the Richard Hickox Singers & Orchestra in the same year. In 1990 he co-founded baroque orchestra Collegium Musicum 90 with Simon Standage. From 1982-1990, he served as Artistic Director of the Northern Sinfonia. Since 1985, he has been Associate Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. He is also chief conductor of the London Symphony Chorus, with whom he premiered The Three Kings by Peter Maxwell Davies in 1995. He also premiered that composer's A Dance on the Hill in 2005.
For five years, Hickox was Music Director of the Spoleto Festival, Italy. From 2000-2006, he was Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and is now its Conductor Emeritus. He became the Music Director of Opera Australia in 2005.
Hickox was awarded a CBE in the Honours List in 2002. His recording repertoire has concentrated on British music, in which he has made a number of recording premieres for Chandos Records. In 1997 he won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for his recording of Britten’s Peter Grimes.
Hickox is married to the contralto Pamela Helen Stephen. They have two children.
He is President of the Elgar Society.
| Preceded by Tamás Vásáry and Iván Fischer |
Artistic Directors, Music
Directors and Principal Conductors, Northern Sinfonia 1982–1990 |
Succeeded by Heinrich Schiff |
| Preceded by Mark Wigglesworth |
Principal Conductor,
BBC National Orchestra of Wales 2000–2006 |
Succeeded by Thierry Fischer |
| Preceded by Simone Young |
Music Director, Opera
Australia 2005–present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
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