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Robin O'Neill
Robin O’Neill is one of
the most versatile musicians of his generation.
He has been principal bassoonist of the Chamber
Orchestra of Europe, the English Chamber Orchestra
and the Philharmonia Orchestra. As a chamber musician
he has been a member of London Winds (with whom
he was nominated for a Grammy award) and the Gaudier
Ensemble. He has recorded the whole of the core
chamber music repertoire having made more than
30 CDs on labels such as Sony, Philips, Hyperion
and Decca.
In his parallel carreer
as a conductor Robin O’Neill is principal conductor
of Orchestra Citta Aperta and music dierctor
of the Motion Arts Group. He has conducted the
Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Philharmonic,
the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Stavanger
Symphony orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra,
the City of London Sinfonia, the Swedish Chamber
Orchestra, the Nordic Chamber Orchestra and
the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa Japan. He will
be returning to several of these orchestras
in the coming seasons and will also conduct
the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Johannesburg
Philharmonic Orchestra and the symphony orchestras
of London's Royal College and Royal Academy
of Music. He has recorded on the Hyperion and
Cinefonia labels.
In his latest project
with the Motion Arts Group Robin O’Neill and
theatre director Andrew Steggall produced an
English/Arabic version of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s
Tale with a cast of Iraqi and British actors
and musicians. The Iraq Project explored the
effects of war on the people of Iraq with the
aim of creating an exciting piece of theatre
as well as building meaningful and sustainable
relations between artists from different backgrounds
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