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Peter Seymour (conductor)
Born: England
English conductor, Peter Seymour, studied at Huddersfield College of Music and the University of York, including postgraduate research work in the performance of baroque music. In July 1994 he was awarded the degree D Minor. , studied performance style at the University of York.
Peter Seymour is director of the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists and the Yorkshire Bach Choir, and has worked and recorded in most European countries. He is also an artistic advisor to the New York Early Music Festival and senior lecturer in music and organ at the University of York. He records regularly as both conductor and keyboardist for WDR-Cologne, BBC and other radio stations.
Major recordings include a three-year project recording the keyboard works of Bach in the past 6 volumes, Motets of Jazz by Bach, Haydn Seasons, a large-scale Vienna of 1648 plus related motets Song, and Festing's Violin Sonata with Catherine Mackintosh. BBC 3 broadcast many recordings of song performances (using fortepiano) with such artists as Emma Kirby, Barbara Ricker, Stephen Varcoe and Mark Rowlinson, including Live Lunch with Stephen Varcoe and Emma Kirby with whom he also designed and performed Two invitational concerts explore early dialogue and gorgeous song. In the 1997 season he was again involved in song playing with Emma Kirby and Barbara Ricker, the Early Music University Network Tour of Schubert's Die Sch?ne Müllerin and BBC Live Lunches with Stephen Varcoe and Winter David Thomas. In the summer of 1999 he performed solo with Emma Kirby and program Goethe settings with Christophe Prégardien, Stephen Varcoe and Lynne Dow. He also sang frequently with Yvonne Seymour, Ian Partridge, David Thomas and Thomas Thomaschke.
Peter Seymour performs with the WDR Choir of the Corona Coloniensis, a specialist early music choir, with his recorded program of Haydn, Mozart, Bach motets of the family, Cantiones sacrae by Svelink and madrigals by Peter Phillips. This is due to take a commercial form in the near future. In May 1995, the group recorded some 17th-century motets from the German Baroque for WDR and the BBC, and in 1998 and 2000 more motets for Svelink.
Recent recordings with the Yorkshire Bach Choir and Yorkshire Baroque Soloists include George Frideric, Handel's Feast of Alexander, Jazz Bach's cantata for St Michael, Haydn's Theresienmesse and Mozart's Requiem songs, all of which have recently aired on the BBC and WDR. WDR's recording of Mozart's Requiem has now been released on CD and Pei's recording of Dido and Aeneas is also awaiting commercial release. He performed with the Yorkshire Bach Choir and the Yorkshire Baroque Soloist and helped develop a program for Channel 4 about Bach's work in Leipzig. The recording of Bach's motets and festival masses held at the imperial court in Vienna in 1648 was reissued in June/July 1997 on the Ritz-Carlton label.
Other majors include the BBC recording sequence of Charpentier's Psalms, Pei Xiliang's semi-opera Dioclesian (complete and stage play), Laiye and Son Arts Festival of the Yorkshire Song, Clark's Music of the Dead, and Explosive Welcome every customer. He has also performed on BBC string suite recordings of Muffat and Biber with YBS and the BBC has recently aired Schubertiad and recorded Songs with Barbara Ricker as well as Biber's Mass Alleluia. The BBC also broadcast some recorded concerts by Crispian Steele-Perkins. Recent WDR recordings include programs for solo harpsichord by Bach, Duphly and Arne and an Italian cantata by Graphite Handel.
Peter Seymour has recently appeared at various festivals in the UK, USA, Denmark, Germany and the Czech Republic and has performed the Northern Symphony in programs of Beethoven, Mozart, Handel and Jazz bach. He has performed in the United States, playing concertos with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and conducting performances of Bach's cantatas and playing Bach's harpsichord concertos at the Sacramento Bach Festival. He has also been conducting and playing at the Corfu and Hong Kong Corfu, where he performed Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248), St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244), and a series of Bach cantatas, as well as performing solo feather Harpsichordist performs and records Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto.
In the past two seasons Peter Seymour has performed Bach's Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248), St. Matthew (BWV 244) and St. John's Passion (BWV 245); Schutz's Christmas History; GF Handel's Israel, Egypt and the Solomon Islands; Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610; Haydn's composition, Mozart's Mass in C minor, Linz Symphony Orchestra and Exsultate Exultation (with Northern Symphony); and Mendelssohns' Elijah, Verdi's IV Pezzi Sacri, Puccini's Messa di Caille and Elgar's Dream of Gerontius (English Northern Philharmonic). He has also conducted and played harpsichord and master classes in Greece, Germany, Czech Republic and Denmark.
He has recently edited the St. Cecilia Day Book of Poetry by Daniel Pedro (Beginnings and Strikes of the Harmony) and John Flow (from the Song Dynasty), which he conducted in the fall of 1998. Carol Onslaught was also recorded as part of Live Broadcast Cologne for the European Broadcasting Union in September 1999. In July 2000, he conducted performances at the New York Early Music Festival, a program of performances by Schütz (The Passion of St. John (BWV 245), 7 Last Words, Esurrection History) and some new versions of biblical narratives by Pere and Blow . Both concerts were recorded by the BBC. In the same month the Yorkshire Baroque Soloist appeared at the Ryedale Festival performing Purcell and the Blowing Poems.
In the 2000/1 season he performed the Jazz Bach B Minor Mass (BWV 232) and the Lutheran Mass (BWV 233-236), GF Handel's way of doing Zion Mourning, program of sound and character strings of Haydn and Mozart and further restoration of the Book of Songs in English. He performed Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in F minor and the Northern Symphony, and also performed them in Haydn's Sch?pfungsmesse Symphony and Mozart's Jupiter. With the English Northern Philharmonic he performed Berlioz's deum and Camille Saint-Sa?ns' Organ Symphony.