Martin Yates

Martin Yates (born in London on 1 July 1958) is a British conductor.

Studied at the Royal College of Music and Trinity College of Music, London where his teachers included Bernard Keeffe (conducting), Richard Arnell (composition), Ian Lake, Jakob Kaletsky & Alan Rowlands (piano) and Douglas Moore & John Burden (French horn).

Conducting debut 1983 with Israel National Opera in Carmen; appeared with them as guest conductor for two seasons, where he conducted Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème and La Traviata. Came to UK notice making Edinburgh Festival debut in 1988 with Leonard Bernstein's On The Town, thereafter conducted several major London musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's Theatre), Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Carousel (Shaftesbury Theatre) and Sunset Boulevard (Adelphi Theatre). In 1995 crossed back to mainstream classical music and has since appeared at several major opera houses including Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Rome and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He conducts many major symphony orchestras, including Gothenburg Symphony, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra (will conduct the Proms in the Park in London for the second year running this year) and has made notable recordings of composer Richard Arnell's work as well as recordings by other neglected British composers. He also regularly conducts the Royal Ballet, both at Covent Garden and on their international tours. As a composer his music for Flute and Piano has recently been recorded by flautist Anna Noakes and he has written concertos for Horn, Trumpet, Euphonium, Organ, Flute and Flute & Harp as well as 4 string quartets which are published by Broadbent & Dunn. He wrote a musical with Dudley Stevens (The Soap Opera 1986), seen briefly at the Piccadilly Theatre, London and another musical with Steve Devereaux (Wuthering Heights).^[1]

He has made over 60 recordings, including (for Dutton Epoch) the world premier recordings of the complete symphonies, ballets and concertos of Richard Arnell, John Joubert Symphony 2, Symphonies 3 & 4, Sinfonietta 1 & Piano Concerto 2 by Stanley Bate, Thomas Dunhill (Symphony in A), Erik Chisholm (Symphony No. 2), Peter Crossley - Holland (Symphony in D), String Orchestra music by Arnold Bax, Stephen Dodgson & Richard Arnell, Orchestral Songs by John Ireland, Arnold Bax and others, also Piano Concertos (with pianist Victor Sangiorgio) by Stanley Bate, Benjamin Godard and Franz Reizenstein and with pianist Martin Roscoe the complete piano & orchestra works by [CM Widor]. He has also recorded five Cello Concertos with the celebrated cellist Raphael Wallfisch (Havergal Brian, York Bowen, Alan Bush, John Foulds and Lionel Sainsbury). During the 1990's he made many recordings of complete musicals for TER, including Brigadoon, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Sweet Charity, Stop the World I Want to Get Off, The Fantasticks & Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. He conducted the highly regarded Royal National Theatre production of Carousel in London's west end and made the London cast recording.

He recently completed and orchestrated Ernest John Moeran's Symphony No.2 (from sketches),which he recorded with the RSNO on Dutton Epoch,Edward Elgar's Pageant of Empire (Recorded by Yates conducting Roderick Williams - Baritone, realised and completed Richard Arnell's Symphony No.7 (Mandela)(Recorded by Yates and the RSNO). His orchestration of Sarnia - an Island Sequence for Orchestra by John Irelandhas recently been recorded by the RSNO and released on Dutton Epoch and his orchestration for the Kenneth MacMillan Ballet Manon was made for the Royal Ballet in 2011 and is now used throughout the world. Since 2010 he has been the principal conductor of The Symphony Orchestra of the Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra.

External link

• Martin Yates artist management
• Martin Yates Scandinavian management
• Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra
• Dutton Epoch New Releases

References

1. ^ "Staff - Royal Opera House". Royal Opera House. http://www.roh.org.uk/discover/thepeople/theroyalballet/staff.aspx. Retrieved 2009-06-10. 

Persondata
Name	Yates, Martin
Alternative names
Short description	Conductor
Date of birth	1 July 1958
Place of birth	London
Date of death
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