 photo credit: Nicolas Tucat As Music Director Designate at the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, in 2006/07 Kwamé Ryan will conduct the orchestra in a number of projects including a staged production of Berlioz's La Mort de Cleopatre and Poulenc's La Voix Humaine with Mireille Delunsch in January 2007. Canadian born Kwamé Ryan grew up in Trinidad, where he received his first musical education. At the age of fourteen he attended boarding school in England where he studied conducting, piano, voice, and double bass, before moving on to study musicology at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, and conducting with the conductor and composer Peter Eötvös. Recent highlights have included his English National Opera debut in autumn 2005, conducting Strauss' Salome, a highly acclaimed debut at the opening concert of the 2004 Edinburgh Festival where he conducted Honegger's Jeanne d'arc au bűcher and the world premiere of Pintscher's L'espace dernier at the Bastille in Paris in January 2005. In ever-increasing demand in North America, Kwamé Ryan begins this season with his debuts in Detroit, Dallas, Indianapolis and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras and will make his debuts with New Jersey, Houston, Atlanta and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras in 2007/08. Provided by Harrison/Parrott Ltd.
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