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Orchestra - Amadeus Orchestra
The Amadeus Orchestra is one of the world's foremost training orchestras for young professionals and music students. They meet several times a year for coaching at the highest level. The Amadeus has helped launch careers with every major British orchestra, and others as far afield as the Boston Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and their concerts have become renowned for their quality and vitality.
Philip Mackenzie is currently Principal Conductor of the Amadeus Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Crimean State Symphony Orchestra and Principal Conductor of the Mozart Symphony Orchestra.
Recently he has worked with Manchester Camerata, Manchester Concert Orchestra, Bath Philharmonia, the Pardubice Chamber Orchestra and Lontano.
Philip has also made numerous TV and radio broadcasts by in the UK and worldwide. He has worked with soloists such as Steven Isserlis, Stephen Varcoe, Raphael Wallfisch, Ian Pace and Janis Kelly and has directed 'speaking soloists' including Griff Rhys Jones, Matthew Kelly, Jilly Cooper, Clement Freud, Edward Fox and Joanna David.
He is also a prodigious commissioner of new works and has a close working relationship with the composer Alastair King. In 2001 Philip gave the Ukrainian Premiere of Elgar's First Symphony and was given an honorary doctorate by the country's Vice President for artistic services. In 2002 Philip took the Amadeus Orchestra to Bombay at the invitation of the British Council and is regularly invited to conduct in China. Recently Philip conducted the Moscow State TV and Radio orchestra with the Kirov's Chorus and soloists in a performance of Mozart's Requiem, in Moscow.
You can hire any combination of players - from a single harpist, a string quartet, wind quintet or brass band, to a full symphony orchestra. They can provide the music for weddings and other occasions throughout the year. They can even provide singers. They are often hired by choral societies and for fireworks concerts.
More recently they have also started operating in the world of corporate entertainment, so if you have a product launch, a conference or any type of event that would benefit from live music, contact us.
