Adrian Leaper
Adrian Leaper (born 1953) is an English conductor.
Biography
Leaper studied horn and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music and for eight years was co-principal horn of the Philharmonia Orchestra.[1] He was Principal Conductor of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria from 1994 until 2001,[2] when he became conductor of the RTVE Symphony Orchestra in Madrid until 2010.[3][4]
He has made many recordings for the Naxos Records label.[5] He has conducted all four major London orchestras, the Moscow, Vienna and Prague Symphony Orchestras in addition to many other radio, philharmonic and symphony orchestras around the world.[6]
References
- ^ Anderson, Keith. "About this Recording: Bantock: Hebridean Symphony / Old English Suite (Liner Notes, 1989)". Naxo. Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ^ Biography Adrian Leaper's Profile - Hazard Chase Archived June 28, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Biography Archived 2 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine on his agent's website, (accessed January 2, 2014).
- ^ History of the RTV Symphony Orchestra (in Spanish), (accessed January 2, 2015).
- ^ "Leaper's biography on Naxos.com". Archived from the original on 8 January 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2008.
- ^ Biography Archived 2 January 2015 at the Wayback Machine on his agent's website, (accessed February 20, 2015).
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Preceded by | Directors, RTVE Symphony Orchestra 2001– | Succeeded by Carlos Kalmar |
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- Igor Markevitch (1965)
- Antoni Ros-Marbà (1965)
- Enrique García Asensio (1967)
- Odón Alonso (1968)
- Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (1984)
- Arpad Joó (1988)
- Sergiu Comissiona (1990)
- Enrique García Asensio (1998)
- Adrian Leaper (2001)
- Carlos Kalmar (2011)
- Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez (2016)
- Pablo González (2019)
- Christoph König (2023)
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