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18-555: LSSO may refer to: Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra , youth orchestra based in Leicester London Schools Symphony Orchestra , youth orchestra based in London Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title LSSO . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

36-866: A Special Artistic Advisor in 2001, its Honorary Conductor Laureate from 2010, and its Honorary Music Director from 2016. Chung became the first principal guest conductor in the history of the Staatskapelle Dresden in 2012. He was the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra 's principal conductor between 2005 and 2015. During this period the Seoul Philharmonic became the first Asian orchestra to sign a major-label record deal and gave its first performance at The Proms . In addition to being awarded numerous music prizes, Myung-whun Chung has also been honoured with Korea's most distinguished cultural award 'Kumkwan' for his contribution to Korean musical life and

54-494: Is currently conducted by Dan Watson. Myung-whun Chung Myung-whun Chung ( Korean :  정명훈 ; born 22 January 1953) is a South Korean conductor and pianist. Chung studied piano with Maria Curcio and won joint second-prize in the 1974 International Tchaikovsky Competition . He performed in the Chung Trio with his sisters, violinist Kyung-wha Chung and cellist Myung-wha Chung . Chung studied conducting at

72-1262: The Beethovenhalle in Bonn, the Haydnsaal in Schloss Esterházy (Eisenstadt, Austria), the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, the Berliner Philharmonie , the Robert-Schumann-Saal at the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, the Hans-Sachs-Haus in Gelsenkirchen, the Fairfield Halls in Croydon, and London's Royal Festival Hall . In a press review of one of the concerts given by the orchestra during their 1969 tour of Germany with Sir Michael Tippett and Richard Rodney Bennett ,

90-998: The Mannes College of Music and the Juilliard School . He has conducted virtually all the prominent European and American orchestras including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Los Angeles Philharmonic , the Chicago Philharmonic , the Berlin Philharmonic , and the Vienna Philharmonic , among others. Chung was chief conductor of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken from 1984 to 1990, and principal guest conductor of

108-714: The Teatro Comunale Florence from 1987 to 1992. At the end of the 1987–88 seasons, he received the Premio Abbiati award from Italian critics, and the following year awarded the Arturo Toscanini prize. Chung was the Paris Opera 's music director from 1989 to 1994, during which time he opened the inaugural season at the new Opéra Bastille . He opened the inaugural season at the new Opéra Bastille with Berlioz's complete Les Troyens and received highly praised reviews from

126-621: The BBC Omnibus programme The Other LSO with André Previn rehearsing them in works by Glinka , Beethoven and Rachmaninov and a series of programmes for BBC television in the mid 1980s called Music Time (see video links below). Several television programmes have featured Sir Michael Tippett and the orchestra and in 1968 a chamber group drawn from the LSSO appeared in the television series Sounds Exciting to perform Herbert Chappell 's Dead in Tune with

144-673: The Bastille Opera Orchestra; a series of Dvořák's symphonies and serenades with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, a series dedicated to the great sacred music with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, including the award-winning recording of Duruflé's and Fauré's Requiems with Cecilia Bartoli and Bryn Terfel. In 1995 he was honoured three times at the French Victoires de la Musiques Classiques, and

162-563: The De Montfort Hall, Leicester in 1980, was conducted by Norman Del Mar , who had worked regularly with the orchestra since 1966 at home and abroad, notably their concert in the Vienna Musikverein in 1968. Eric Pinkett was followed by Peter G. Fletcher (1976–84), Stuart Johnson (1984–93), Don Blakeson (1993–97), Russell Parry (1997–2009), Andrew Bound (2009-2013), Peter Dunkley (2013-2015) and Richard Laing (2015–2017). The orchestra

180-474: The LSSO was hailed as "Britain's best cultural export". Review The famous, well-travelled Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra – an orchestra of schoolchildren under the direction of the internationally known composer Sir Michael Tippett – in the Philharmonie, played difficult pieces with such precision that we could only wonder at their technical boldness. Many professional orchestras of ours might envy

198-655: The composer conducting and Robin Ray narrating. In 1970 a studio recording of Dead in Tune was also released by Argo . Other commercial recordings by the LSSO have been issued on Pye , Argo, CBS , Unicorn , Cameo Classics, Virgin and Performance labels. The orchestra has given concerts in some of Europe's major concert halls including the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg,

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216-841: The late 1950s, many illustrious musicians have conducted the orchestra and these have included Michael Tippett, Alan Ridout , Arthur Bliss , Adrian Boult , Malcolm Arnold , Charles Groves , Norman Del Mar , George Weldon , Rudolf Schwarz , James Loughran , László Heltay , Herbert Chappell , Bryan Kelly , Alan Ridout , Herbert Baumann , Douglas Cameron, Lesley Woodgate, Stanford Robinson , Oivin Fjelstad, Bernard Keeffe, Alexander Goehr , Russell Burgess, Uri Segal , Havelock Nelson , Willy Gohl, Dan Vogel , Maurice Handford , Pierre Cao , Myung-whun Chung , Douglas Young, William Mathias , Martyn Brabbins , Stuart Johnson and André Previn . The orchestra has broadcast regularly on radio and television both at home and abroad, including an appearance in

234-428: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LSSO&oldid=932970860 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra The Leicestershire County School of Music

252-671: The music circle. In 1991, the Association of French Theatres and Music Critics named him "Artist of the year" and in 1992 he received the Legion d'Honneur for his contribution to the Paris Opéra. An exclusive recording artist for Deutsche Grammophon since 1990, many of his numerous recordings have won international prizes and awards. These include Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie and Éclairs sur l'au-delà…, Verdi's Otello, Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with

270-592: The stark clarity of the brass as it was displayed in Hindemith's Metamorphoses and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue . The trumpeter alone was worth the visit. Great applause from the young people of Berlin. The LSSO made the very first commercial recording of Havergal Brian 's music for the Unicorn and CBS labels in 1972 and 1974 respectively. Eric Pinkett retired from his post in 1976 and died in 1979. His memorial concert, held at

288-555: The years the orchestra's repertoire has included a number of specially commissioned works by composers such as Michael Tippett ( The Shires Suite ), David Bedford ( Alleluia Timpanis ), Bryan Kelly ( Sancho Panza, Sinfonia Concertante ), Anthony Milner ( Te Deum ), Alan Ridout ( Concertante Music, Symphony No.2, Funeral Games for a Greek Warrior ), Brian Bonsor ( The Pied Piper of Hamelin ), William Mathias ( Sinfonietta ), Herbert Baumann ( Variations on an Old English Folk Song ), and Herbert Chappell (Overture Panache ). Since

306-665: Was also named Meilleur Chef d'Orchestre de l'Année. He directed the world premiere of Messiaen's last work: the Concert à quatre for four soloists and orchestra, which the composer had dedicated to Myung-whun Chung and the Orchestre de la Bastille. He took the role of artistic director at the Asia Philharmonic Orchestra in 1997 and at the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France in 2000. The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra made Chung

324-710: Was the first of its kind, founded in 1948 by the county's first Music Adviser, Eric Pinkett O.B.E. , with the backing of the Leicestershire education committee headed up by the visionary Director of Education, Stuart Mason. By the mid 1960s, Eric Pinkett – supported by the patronage of Sir Michael Tippett – had managed to put the LSSO on the UK musical map. The orchestra also established an international reputation due to its regular concert tours of major European cities, an annual tradition that started with visits to Essen in 1953, The Hague in 1954, Aarhus in 1955 and Oslo in 1956. Over

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