After winning the premier prize at the Royal College of Music at the end of his first year, Howard Shelley's career began with a highly successful London recital and a televised BBC Proms concert with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson-Thomas in the same season. Since then he has performed regularly throughout the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Russia, Australia, and the Far East. He has also made over 120 highly acclaimed commercial recordings. As pianist he has performed, broadcast and recorded around the world with leading orchestras and conductors including Ashkenazy, Boulez, Boult, Davis, Jansons, Rozhdestvensky and Sanderling. In a unique series of five London recitals, broadcast by the BBC, he played Rachmaninov's complete solo piano music. He has given complete cycles of Rachmaninov concertos with the Royal Scottish National, Beethoven concertos with the BBC Philharmonic and, most recently, all the Mozart Piano Concertos programmed with Haydn’s six ‘Paris’ and twelve ‘London’ symphonies in Italy with the Orchestra di Padova et del Veneto. He has designed and performed themed series around Mozart with the London Mozart Players, Camerata Salzburg and Munich Symphony and Orchestra di Padova et del Veneto. As conductor Shelley has performed with the London Philharmonic, London Symphony and Royal Philharmonic orchestras, the Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National and Ulster orchestras as well as the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Filarmonica de la Ciudad de Mexico, Munich Symphony, Seattle Symphony,
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HOWARD SHELLEY Conductor / Piano
Naples Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and West Australian Symphony Orchestra, amongst many others. He has held positions of Associate and Principal Guest Conductor with the London Mozart Players in a close relationship spanning thirty years. He has toured with them to Japan, Korea, Sweden, Italy, Holland, the Czech Republic, Ireland and has a seventh German tour with them in 2012. Their many recordings together have in every case received exceptional critical acclaim. Shelley has also been Principal Conductor of Sweden's Uppsala Chamber Orchestra and works regularly with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto in Italy, the Orchestra of SwissItalian Radio in Lugano, Sinfonia Varsova in Warsaw and Australia’s Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. He is involved in several recording projects in Lugano and Hobart. Other chamber orchestras with whom he has worked include the English Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Swedish Chamber, Zurich Chamber, Netherlands Chamber & Stuttgart Chamber orchestras, the Northern Sinfonia, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre de Picardie, Leipzig Kammerphilharmonie, Camerata Salzburg and Hong Kong Sinfonietta. He has appeared on television since the age of ten when he gave a recital of Bach and Chopin. He was soloist at the 100th anniversary of the Promenade Concerts, a concert which was televised worldwide. A documentary on Ravel made in 1998 by the Australian Broadcasting Commission, featuring Shelley as conductor, pianist and presenter won the Gold Medal for the best arts biography of the year at the New York Festivals Awards.
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