When I first started conducting, I was told a story by a conductor who regularly works with amateur orchestras. He had been advised by a very well-known British conductor to stop working with amateur and youth orchestras as it would…
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What’s new, Buenos Aires OR how many steaks does it take to get into the Colon?
So what was I doing in Buenos Aires , other than eating lots of these….. Virtually all conductors spend a lot of their time ‘guest conducting’ – travelling the world conducting orchestras with which you have no official…
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Belfast, Birmingham and Buenos Aires – PART 2
Part II of my trip through major cities beginning with B took me back home to Birmingham. Friday consisted of a four hour rehearsal with the CBSO prior to Saturday’s performance at Artsfest, Birmingham’s free arts festival, which annually takes…
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Belfast, Birmingham & Buenos Aires – PART 1
The life of a conductor can often be a varied one, especially when one is starting out on a career. Not many fledgling conductors have the luxury of jetting into an orchestra, performing a concert(s) consisting of overture, concerto and…
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Let’s start at the very beginning…..
as, in the words of Julie Andrews, it’s a very good place to start! I am Michael Seal and I am a professional musician. For the last few years I have been trying to establish myself as a professional conductor,…
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