Martin Yates
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Martin Yates is a British
conductor
.
Studied at the Royal College of Music
and Trinity College of Music
, London where his teachers included Bernard Keeffe (conducting), Richard Arnell
(composition), Ian Lake
, Jakob Kaletsky & Alan Rowlands (piano) and Douglas Moore & John Burden
(French horn).
Conducting debut 1983 with Israel National Opera in Carmen; appeared with them as guest conductor for two seasons, where he conducted Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème and La Traviata.
Came to UK notice making Edinburgh Festival debut in 1988 with Leonard Bernstein's On The Town, thereafter conducted several major London musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's Theatre), Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Carousel (Shaftesbury Theatre) and Sunset Boulevard (Adelphi Theatre). In 1995 crossed back to mainstream classical music and has since appeared at several major opera houses including Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Rome and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
He conducts many major symphony orchestras, including Gothenburg Symphony, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra (will conduct the Proms in the Park in London for the second year running this year) and has made notable recordings of composer Richard Arnell
's work as well as recordings by other neglected British composers. He also regularly conducts the Royal Ballet, both at Covent Garden and on their international tours.
As a composer his music for Flute and Piano has recently been recorded by flautist Anna Noakes and he has written concertos for Horn, Trumpet, Euphonium, Organ, Flute and Flute & Harp as well as 4 string quartets which are published by Broadbent & Dunn. He wrote a musical with Dudley Stevens (The Soap Opera 1986), seen briefly at the Piccadilly Theatre, London and another musical with Steve Devereaux (Wuthering Heights).
He has made over 60 recordings, including (for Dutton Epoch) the world premier recordings of the complete symphonies, ballets and concertos of Richard Arnell
, John Joubert
Symphony 2, Symphonies 3 & 4, Sinfonietta 1 & Piano Concerto 2 by Stanley Bate
, Thomas Dunhill
(Symphony in A), Erik Chisholm
(Symphony No. 2), Peter Crossley - Holland (Symphony in D), String Orchestra music by Arnold Bax
, Stephen Dodgson
& Richard Arnell
, Orchestral Songs by John Ireland
, Arnold Bax
and others, also Piano Concertos (with pianist Victor Sangiorgio) by Stanley Bate
, Benjamin Godard
and Franz Reizenstein
and with pianist Martin Roscoe
the complete piano & orchestra works by [CM Widor]. He has also recorded five Cello Concertos with the celebrated cellist Raphael Wallfisch
(Havergal Brian
, York Bowen
, Alan Bush
, John Foulds
and Lionel Sainsbury). During the 1990's he made many recordings of complete musicals for TER, including Brigadoon, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Sweet Charity, Stop the World I Want to Get Off, The Fantasticks & Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. He conducted the highly regarded Royal National Theatre production of Carousel in London's west end and made the London cast recording.
He recently completed and orchestrated Ernest John Moeran
's Symphony No.2 (from sketches),which he recorded with the RSNO on Dutton Epoch,Edward Elgar
's Pageant of Empire (Recorded by Yates conducting Roderick Williams - Baritone, realised and completed Richard Arnell
's Symphony No.7 (Mandela)(Recorded by Yates and the RSNO). His orchestration of Sarnia - an Island Sequence for Orchestra by John Ireland
has recently been recorded by the RSNO and released on Dutton Epoch and his orchestration for the Kenneth MacMillan
Ballet Manon
was made for the Royal Ballet in 2011 and is now used throughout the world.
Since 2010 he has been the principal conductor of The Symphony Orchestra of the Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra.
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...
conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
.
Studied at the Royal College of Music
Royal College of Music
The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire founded by Royal Charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, England.-Background:The first director was Sir George Grove and he was followed by Sir Hubert Parry...
and Trinity College of Music
Trinity College of Music
Trinity College of Music is one of the London music conservatories, based in Greenwich. It is part of Trinity Laban.The conservatoire is inheritor of elegant riverside buildings of the former Greenwich Hospital, designed in part by Sir Christopher Wren...
, London where his teachers included Bernard Keeffe (conducting), Richard Arnell
Richard Arnell
Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell was an English composer of classical music. Arnell composed in all the established genres for the concert stage, and his list of works includes six completed symphonies and six string quartets.-Biography:Arnell was born in Hampstead, London...
(composition), Ian Lake
Ian Lake
Ian Lake was a pianist and composer who taught for many years at the Royal College of Music in London.-References:....
, Jakob Kaletsky & Alan Rowlands (piano) and Douglas Moore & John Burden
John Burden
John Allen Burden was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, administrator, and medical missionary instrumental in founding sanitariums, restaurants, and health food factories. At the age of 9, John attended Adventist meetings for the first time and was introduced to the writings of Ellen G. White,...
(French horn).
Conducting debut 1983 with Israel National Opera in Carmen; appeared with them as guest conductor for two seasons, where he conducted Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La Bohème and La Traviata.
Came to UK notice making Edinburgh Festival debut in 1988 with Leonard Bernstein's On The Town, thereafter conducted several major London musicals, including The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty's Theatre), Miss Saigon (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Carousel (Shaftesbury Theatre) and Sunset Boulevard (Adelphi Theatre). In 1995 crossed back to mainstream classical music and has since appeared at several major opera houses including Helsinki, Stockholm, Oslo, Rome and Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
He conducts many major symphony orchestras, including Gothenburg Symphony, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra (will conduct the Proms in the Park in London for the second year running this year) and has made notable recordings of composer Richard Arnell
Richard Arnell
Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell was an English composer of classical music. Arnell composed in all the established genres for the concert stage, and his list of works includes six completed symphonies and six string quartets.-Biography:Arnell was born in Hampstead, London...
's work as well as recordings by other neglected British composers. He also regularly conducts the Royal Ballet, both at Covent Garden and on their international tours.
As a composer his music for Flute and Piano has recently been recorded by flautist Anna Noakes and he has written concertos for Horn, Trumpet, Euphonium, Organ, Flute and Flute & Harp as well as 4 string quartets which are published by Broadbent & Dunn. He wrote a musical with Dudley Stevens (The Soap Opera 1986), seen briefly at the Piccadilly Theatre, London and another musical with Steve Devereaux (Wuthering Heights).
He has made over 60 recordings, including (for Dutton Epoch) the world premier recordings of the complete symphonies, ballets and concertos of Richard Arnell
Richard Arnell
Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell was an English composer of classical music. Arnell composed in all the established genres for the concert stage, and his list of works includes six completed symphonies and six string quartets.-Biography:Arnell was born in Hampstead, London...
, John Joubert
John Joubert
John Joseph Joubert was an American serial killer convicted of the murders of three boys in Maine and Nebraska. He was executed in Nebraska.-Childhood:...
Symphony 2, Symphonies 3 & 4, Sinfonietta 1 & Piano Concerto 2 by Stanley Bate
Stanley Bate
-Life:Bate received early training in music and had composed two operas by age twenty. He studied under Ralph Vaughan Williams, R.O. Morris, Gordon Jacob, and Arthur Benjamin, and then in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and in Berlin with Paul Hindemith. He wrote incidental music for performances at...
, Thomas Dunhill
Thomas Dunhill
Thomas Frederick Dunhill was an English composer and writer on musical subjects. He is best-known for his song-cycle The Wind among the Reeds.-Life and career:Thomas Dunhill was born in Hampstead, London...
(Symphony in A), Erik Chisholm
Erik Chisholm
Professor Erik William Chisholm was a Scottish composer and conductor often known as "Scotland’s forgotten composer"...
(Symphony No. 2), Peter Crossley - Holland (Symphony in D), String Orchestra music by Arnold Bax
Arnold Bax
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...
, Stephen Dodgson
Stephen Dodgson
Stephen Dodgson is a British composer and broadcaster.- Biography :During World War II, he served in the Royal Navy. From 1947 to 1949, Dodgson studied at the Royal College of Music, where he later taught composition. In 1950, he visited Italy on a travelling scholarship, after which he taught in...
& Richard Arnell
Richard Arnell
Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell was an English composer of classical music. Arnell composed in all the established genres for the concert stage, and his list of works includes six completed symphonies and six string quartets.-Biography:Arnell was born in Hampstead, London...
, Orchestral Songs by John Ireland
John Ireland
John Ireland may refer to:* John Ireland , Anglican priest and philanthropist* John Ireland , American politician...
, Arnold Bax
Arnold Bax
Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO was an English composer and poet. His musical style blended elements of romanticism and impressionism, often with influences from Irish literature and landscape. His orchestral scores are noted for their complexity and colourful instrumentation...
and others, also Piano Concertos (with pianist Victor Sangiorgio) by Stanley Bate
Stanley Bate
-Life:Bate received early training in music and had composed two operas by age twenty. He studied under Ralph Vaughan Williams, R.O. Morris, Gordon Jacob, and Arthur Benjamin, and then in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and in Berlin with Paul Hindemith. He wrote incidental music for performances at...
, Benjamin Godard
Benjamin Godard
Benjamin Louis Paul Godard was a French violinist and Romantic composer.-Biography:Born in Paris, Godard was a student of Henri Vieuxtemps. He entered the Conservatoire de Paris in 1863 where he studied under Vieuxtemps and Napoléon Henri Reber and accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany...
and Franz Reizenstein
Franz Reizenstein
Franz Theodor Reizenstein was a German-born British composer and concert pianist. He left Germany for sanctuary in Britain in 1934 and went on to have his career there, including teaching at the Royal Northern College of Music and Boston University, as well as performing.-Life and work:Franz...
and with pianist Martin Roscoe
Martin Roscoe
Martin Roscoe is an English classical pianist. He teaches piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the Department of Keyboard Studies. He performs as a concerto soloist, as a recitalist and as a chamber musician....
the complete piano & orchestra works by [CM Widor]. He has also recorded five Cello Concertos with the celebrated cellist Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch
Raphael Wallfisch is a British cellist.Wallfisch was born into a family of distinguished musicians, his father the pianist Peter Wallfisch and his mother the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who is one of the last known surviving members of the Girl orchestra of Auschwitz...
(Havergal Brian
Havergal Brian
Havergal Brian , was a British classical composer.Brian acquired a legendary status at the time of his rediscovery in the 1950s and 1960s for the many symphonies he had managed to write. By the end of his life he had completed 32, an unusually large number for any composer since Haydn or Mozart...
, York Bowen
York Bowen
Edwin York Bowen was an English composer and pianist. Bowen’s musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player...
, Alan Bush
Alan Bush
Alan Dudley Bush was a British composer and pianist. He was a committed socialist, and politics sometimes provided central themes in his music.-Personal life:...
, John Foulds
John Foulds
John Herbert Foulds was a British composer of classical music. Largely self-taught as a composer, he was one of the most remarkable and unjustly forgotten figures of the "British Musical Renaissance"....
and Lionel Sainsbury). During the 1990's he made many recordings of complete musicals for TER, including Brigadoon, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Sweet Charity, Stop the World I Want to Get Off, The Fantasticks & Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. He conducted the highly regarded Royal National Theatre production of Carousel in London's west end and made the London cast recording.
He recently completed and orchestrated Ernest John Moeran
Ernest John Moeran
Ernest John Moeran was an English composer who had strong associations with Ireland .-Early life:...
's Symphony No.2 (from sketches),which he recorded with the RSNO on Dutton Epoch,Edward Elgar
Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
's Pageant of Empire (Recorded by Yates conducting Roderick Williams - Baritone, realised and completed Richard Arnell
Richard Arnell
Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell was an English composer of classical music. Arnell composed in all the established genres for the concert stage, and his list of works includes six completed symphonies and six string quartets.-Biography:Arnell was born in Hampstead, London...
's Symphony No.7 (Mandela)(Recorded by Yates and the RSNO). His orchestration of Sarnia - an Island Sequence for Orchestra by John Ireland
John Ireland
John Ireland may refer to:* John Ireland , Anglican priest and philanthropist* John Ireland , American politician...
has recently been recorded by the RSNO and released on Dutton Epoch and his orchestration for the Kenneth MacMillan
Kenneth MacMillan
Sir Kenneth MacMillan was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977.-Early years:...
Ballet Manon
Manon
Manon is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost...
was made for the Royal Ballet in 2011 and is now used throughout the world.
Since 2010 he has been the principal conductor of The Symphony Orchestra of the Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra.