Artists

John Gibbons

John-Gibbons John's passion for British music started when Organ Scholar at Queens' College, Cambridge. Further study followed at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music where he won multiple awards as conductor, pianist and accompanist. Equally at home in the opera pit and the concert platform, to date John has conducted over fifty operas, including many verismo rarities at Opera Holland Park, as well as most of the major British orchestras including the RPO, the CBSO, the LPO, the Ulster Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia with whom he recorded a disc of Skalkottas and Joseph James for the Novelbond label. He is Principal Conductor of Worthing Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of Ealing Symphony Orchestra. For a number of years John worked as an assistant conductor to Sir John Eliot Gardiner including the world tour of Beethoven's Leonore and the award-winning CD of music by Percy Grainger. He also assisted Leonard Slatkin, most notably as the second conductor in a performance of Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony with the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

John's new recording of Arthur Benjamin's string concertos with the RSNO on the Dutton Epoch label is now available. In June 2012 John became chairman of the British Music Society – promoting and preserving British music.