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Madeleine Lovell
Madeleine Lovell is Musical Director of the St George's Chamber Orchestra,
the Lea Singers and
Aylesbury Festival Choir. She has conducted many choirs
and orchestras around the UK, including the BBC Symphony Chorus and the
Philharmonia Chorus. Future plans include work with the BBC Symphony Chorus
at the 2008 Proms.
Having studied music at King's College, Cambridge - graduating with a
double starred first in 1999 - Madeleine received an M. Phil in Musicology
from Cambridge in 2000, and spent a further two years researching comic
opera. She has a Masters in singing from the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama, where she studied with Sarah Pring. As a conductor she has
received tuition from, among others, Sian Edwards, Diego Masson, Bob Chilcott
(in a masterclass with the BBC Singers), George Hurst, Denise Ham and
Rodolfo Saglimbeni. Madeleine attended the 2005 Dartington International
Summer School Advanced Conducting Course (where her studies were funded
by a D'Oyly Carte Bursary), performing excerpts from Stravinsky's The
Rake's Progress.
In February 2007 Madeleine conducted Die Fledermaus with Alternative
Opera in Tunbridge Wells. The production was reviewed by Antony Craig
for Gramophone magazine, who wrote: "Madeleine Lovell ... marshalled
all her forces with skill and finesse." She has a busy schedule of concerts
as conductor and pianist, including dates with the St. George's Chamber
Orchestra, which The Daily Telegraph has dubbed a "bright new ensemble".
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