Lancelot Fuhry was appointed
Associate Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in September 2005 and
since then has performed regularly with the orchestra, and has acted as
assistant to the Principal Conductor Marin Alsop.
Born in Berlin, he played the cello
from an early age and later, the piano. He studied music and history before
going to Weimar in 1997 to study conducting with Professor Nicolás Pasquet.
Prior to his appointment with the
BSO he held the position of Junior Fellow in Conducting at the Royal Northern
College of Music. Whilst there he collaborated with international conductors
such as Mark Elder CBE, Gianandrea Noseda and Douglas Boyd.
Lancelot recently conducted a
production of Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale
in Reutlingen, a performance of Weber’s Freischütz
in Würzburg and a concert with the orchestra of Osnabrück. Last season he
recorded Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1 with the BBC Philharmonic and
conducted the “George Enescu” Philharmonic Bucharest as well as the
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker. In 2005 he gave his début in the Concertgebouw
Amsterdam with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and conducted a concert
with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana of Radio Slovenia. He has also
conducted a number of operas including Britten’s Rape of Lucretia,
Martin Butler’s A Better Place and Cherubini’s Lo sposo di tre e
marito di nessuna.
Upcoming performances in the
2007/08 season include concerts with the Orchestre Philharmonique de
Strasbourg, the Bochumer Symphoniker and the Landesjugendorchester Berlin.
