Christopher Hogwood

Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood (born 10 September 1941) is a well-known British conductor and harpsichordist.

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10 September - 1941 - British - Conductor - Harpsichordist

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Hogwood was born in Nottingham. He studied music and classical literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He went on to study performance and conducting under Raymond Leppard and Thurston Dart; later Rafael Puyana and Gustav Leonhardt. The British Council enabled him to study in Prague for a year.

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Nottingham - Pembroke College - Cambridge - Raymond Leppard - Thurston Dart - Rafael Puyana - Gustav Leonhardt - Prague

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In 1967 he founded the Early Music Consort with David Munrow, and in 1973 founded the Academy of Ancient Music, specializing in performances of baroque and early classical music with period instruments. The Early Music Consort was disbanded following Munrow's suicide in 1976, but Hogwood continues to perform and record with the AAM and also guest conducts with many other orchestras.

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1967 - David Munrow - 1973 - Academy of Ancient Music - Period instruments - 1976

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Since 1981, he has been conducting regularly in the United States. Hogwood is conductor laureate of Boston's Handel & Haydn Society.

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1981 - United States - Boston's - Handel & Haydn Society

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From 1983 to 1985 Hogwood was the artistic director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in the Barbican Centre in London. From 1987 to 1992 he was the musical director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota, which appointed him as its principal guest conductor.

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1983 - 1985 - Barbican Centre - 1987 - 1992 - Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra - Minnesota

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Hogwood also conducts much opera. He made is operatic debut in 1983, conducting Don Giovanni in Saint Louis, Missouri. He has worked with Berlin State Opera, Royal Opera Stockholm, Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Chorégies d'Orange and Houston Grand Opera. With the Opera Australia, he performed Idomeneo in 1994 and La Clemenza di Tito in 1997 Iphigenie auf Tauris.

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1983 - Don Giovanni - Saint Louis, Missouri - Berlin State Opera - Royal Opera House - Covent Garden - Houston Grand Opera - Idomeneo - 1994 - La Clemenza di Tito - 1997 - Iphigenie auf Tauris

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Although Hogwood is best known for the baroque and early classical repertoire, he also performs contemporary music, with a particular affinity for the neo-baroque and neoclassical schools including many works by Stravinsky, Martinu and Hindemith.

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Contemporary music - Neoclassical - Stravinsky - Martinu - Hindemith

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Since 1992 Hogwood has been international professor of Early Music Performance at the Royal Academy of Music, and a visiting professor at London's King's College.

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1992 - Royal Academy of Music - King's College

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Hogwood has written a number of books, including a BBC Music Guide on the trio sonata (1979) and a biography of George Frideric Handel (1985).

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BBC - Trio sonata - 1979 - George Frideric Handel - 1985

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