Hanover Band

Hanover Band

The Hanover Band founded by Caroline Brown in 1980 is a British period-instrument orchestra, widely acclaimed as one of the leading period-instrument orchestras in the world.

Its principal and guest conductors and directors have included Monica Huggett, Sir Charles Mackerras, Roy Goodman, Anthony Halstead, Nicholas McGegan, Richard Egarr, Nicholas Kraemer, Graham Lea-Cox, Jeffrey Skidmore, Paul Brough and Andrew Arthur.

The Hanover Band has appeared at the Carnegie Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, South Bank Centre, Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall, among many other venues. They have toured the UK many times, made ten tours of the United States and performed in Canada, Mexico, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Greece & Turkey.

Their current residency is at The Old Market, Hove, England.

The Hanover Band has made over 160 recordings on Nimbus Records, Hyperion Records, Sony, EMI Eminence, RCA and other labels, including a complete cycle of the orchestral works of Johann Christian Bach for Cpo.

External links

* [http://www.thehanoverband.com/ Official website]


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