He is a Principal Conductor of the Northern Sinfonia and Principal Guest Conductor of the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin, while working on a regular basis with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Philharmonia, Halle, and the BBC Concert, Symphony and Scottish Symphony orchestras. He has conducted the Lahti Symphony Orchestra in Finland on many occasions and has also worked in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, making his Australian debut in Melbourne and Adelaide in 2007. Earlier this year he made his operatic debut with Gilbert & Sullivans’s Ruddigore at Opera North, to be repeated next Autumn. His own John Wilson Orchestra appears regularly at summer music festivals and will tour its 2009 Proms programme on a nationwide tour later this year.

He has made numerous recordings with the John Wilson Orchestra on the Vocalion label and

a DVD of their 2009 Prom has recently been released. His CDs of British music includes works by John Ireland with the Halle, four highly acclaimed recordings of the music of Eric Coates with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the RLPO, and works by Vaughan Williams and Edward German.

He has produced countless orchestrations for film, radio and television, was nominated for a US Grammy award for the music for Kevin Spacey’s film Beyond the Sea and is currently reconstructing the lost scores of all MGM’s major musicals, the latest being Singin’ in the Rain, which he will conduct with the Philharmonia in the Royal Festival Hall. His arrangements have been played worldwide by ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and Cleveland Orchestras.

Born in Gateshead on Tyneside in 1972, John Wilson studied composition and conducting at the Royal College of Music, winning all the major conducting prizes and the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal as its most outstanding student. In 2007 he was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Conductor’s Award.

Autumn 2010